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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Bloomreach is presented as an agentic platform for personalization. Powering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, Bloomreach personalizes the entire customer experience. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses can use Bloomreach to create experiences that drive growth and loyalty. Bloomreach states that they currently drive personalization for 1,400+…N/A

    MODX

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe MODX Digital Experience Platform provides everything you need to build, host, and maintain amazing websites your way. The vendor says that with MODX CMS and cloud hosting, users have complete control over their creative vision and the experiences they deliver, without restriction or compromise. They can focus more on building great digital experiences, and less on hosting and maintaining. If you ever need help, MODX Professionals are available worldwide and direct support from…

    $39

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    Pricing
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMODX
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Base
    $39
    per month
    Pro
    $99
    per month
    Business
    $349
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMODX
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsBloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.PAYMENT FORMS MODX Cloud accepts major credit cards and PayPal for your hosting subscription. We can only accept check (cheque) payments on the Enterprise Plan, annually. CANCELLATION You may cancel your MODX Cloud account at any time. Before you cancel you'll be reminded to backup and remove all your live websites and then follow the instructions for cancellation. If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. REFUNDS If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. All other cancellations will be effective at the end of your current billing period. We do not provide refunds for remaining days or months on monthly or annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMODX
    Considered Both Products
    Bloomreach
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    MODX
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    127 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    98 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    128 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    88 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMODX
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.9
    56 Ratings
    4% above category average
    MODX
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    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.751 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.852 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.951 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages6.425 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.345 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.638 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.3
    43 Ratings
    6% above category average
    MODX
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    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation8.936 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management7.440 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks8.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    38 Ratings
    9% above category average
    MODX
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring8.635 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.627 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    33 Ratings
    7% above category average
    MODX
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    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns7.828 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration8.420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.5
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    MODX
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards7.456 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.253 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.053 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    8% above category average
    MODX
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    5% above category average
    API7.879 Ratings6.13 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals8.340 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.428 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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    Ratings
    MODX
    9.9
    3 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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    Ratings
    MODX
    9.4
    3 Ratings
    20% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.83 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and MODX
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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    Ratings
    MODX
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMODX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (147 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.4
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Bloomreach Customer Support
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (110 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationMODX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bloomreach
    Perfect for onboarding, retention, win-back, and VIP nurture campaigns where customer behavior and timing matter. Excellent when you need to react instantly to customer actions across channels.


    Example: A shopper abandons their cart and immediately receives a push notification followed by an email with the exact items they left behind.
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    MODX
    [MODX is well suited for] all websites, from blogs to corporate sites. It is fast scalable and really good. A small site can be build really fast, and a large site can be made extremely scalable. A website redesign is easy to implement with a new template, without having to redo the content. It got great user groups and users and back-office access can be completely customized.
    While ecommerce is possible with some really good plugins I would only use MODX with ecommerce for sites where ecommerce is not the primary role. For pure ecommerce sites rather use a dedicated system like e.g. PrestaShop (i would say the same thing with other ecommerce plugins e.g. WP woo commerce don't do it unless its a site add on.)
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    Pros
    Bloomreach
    • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
    • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
    • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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    MODX
    • Ease of use - the MODX platform is very easy to use for someone who may have limited experience in content management.
    • Content blocks - the content blocks within MODX add to the usability and customization of the website being managed.
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    Cons
    Bloomreach
    • While Importing the offline data, sometimes the auto detection is failed to detect the csv file
    • While we import with wrong mapping, even after pressing escape before the import starts, its not cancelling the import. it start running. It would be great if it stops the import
    • it would be great if we receive email for successfully finished imports too
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    MODX
    • The user interface was confusing at times.
    • Not a plug and play CMS system.
    • The site manager doesn't always run fast.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bloomreach
    We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
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    MODX
    It is the CMS we use the most, not because we know it well but because we literally tried many of other CMS and this one did it for us.
    However having said we really do not like the one shoe fits all approach. E..g for eCommerce we usually use PrestaShop etc. if a specialized CMS can do a task rather use that.
    However for a general CMS [MODX] is hard to beat.
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    Usability
    Bloomreach
    In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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    MODX
    Great and easy to use for both the coder and the end user. Especially if setup correctly by the coder.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bloomreach
    It has always been available with great response times. Honestly in almost 5 years there was like one outage and I have to admit that it was solved so quick that I don't even know if it's fair to even call it that. Bloomreach is extremely reliable, can't fault it.
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    MODX
    We have not had it go down due to bugs etc. especially when comparing it to other cms out there.
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    Performance
    Bloomreach
    ten out of ten, Bloomreach has revolutionised our marketing capabilities. It has allowed us to get real time data insights from our customers, and then put these into action. Previously it would be a very time consuming and slow process for us to get any sort of campaign out but not anymore, this has lead to increased conversions and revenue
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    MODX
    Damn its fast. really good page speed out of the box.
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    Support Rating
    Bloomreach
    I have given this rating as i feel the team is very responsive and helpful whenever issues arise. Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization provides clear guidance and practical solutions which make it easier to get campaigns live quickly. They also share the best practices and recommendations that help us make the most of the platform.
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    MODX
    Great community support on slack.
    If you have a paid plugin great support also esp from modmore
    If you have cloud hosting MODX support is fast and all servers are optimized for MODX
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    In-Person Training
    Bloomreach
    The team was really helpful in explaining
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    MODX
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Bloomreach
    It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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    MODX
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Bloomreach
    None it went smoothly
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    MODX
    Good system
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bloomreach
    Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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    MODX
    The other company that we looked into was WordPress and all of the features that it offered our organization. What MODX offered to us from development to everyday use just made more sense for our organization as a whole. WordPress is still a great CMS platform, just not exactly what we were looking for.
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    Scalability
    Bloomreach
    there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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    MODX
    Very scalable. e.g. in the [MODX] manager you can manage multiple websites at once without having to login else where. it is very convenient and this way resources and be easily managed and shared.
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    Return on Investment
    Bloomreach
    • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
    • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
    • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
    • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
    • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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    MODX
    • Increased security permissions of the users and freelancers who worked on our website.
    • Gave our developers the ability to create any page that they wanted with custom code.
    • Hindered our Marketing team's ability to stay on top of our content strategy with changes.
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    ScreenShots

    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization Screenshots

    Screenshot of funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of web layers with A/B testingScreenshot of the drag and drop campaign editorScreenshot of the WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templatesScreenshot of the CRM with 360° customer behaviour history

    MODX Screenshots

    Screenshot of MODX Manager InterfaceScreenshot of SEO Management - page levelProduct screenshotScreenshot of Easy editing landing pageScreenshot of Edit files directlyScreenshot of Create & edit custom fields