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    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

    Score8.4 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

    Ontraport

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AONTRAPORT offers customer relations management services that help with content management (creating and hosting webpages), lead tracking, traditional marketing approaches (e-mail, SMS, social media, direct mail), managing online payments, and workflow automation.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationOntraport
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationOntraport
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    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.Ontraport offers a variety of plans to choose from based on the features needed. Pricing adjusts with the number of contacts in the database and users in the account. Monthly or annual plans are available, and all plans start with a 14-day free trial. Ontraport offers a Done-With-You Setup and Training Package for getting set up in the account quickly. Users can also access a free video library with step-by-step instructions on getting started and using every feature of the platform.
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    Community Pulse
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationOntraport
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    Bloomreach
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    Ontraport
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    127 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    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 PersonalizationOntraport
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Ontraport
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.9
    56 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Ontraport
    9.0
    17 Ratings
    17% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.751 Ratings8.216 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.852 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.951 Ratings8.37 Ratings
    Landing pages6.425 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    A/B testing7.954 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.345 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.755 Ratings6.016 Ratings
    List management8.144 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.638 Ratings9.813 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Ontraport
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.3
    43 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Ontraport
    5.5
    17 Ratings
    35% below category average
    Lead nurturing automation8.936 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.437 Ratings2.413 Ratings
    Data quality management7.440 Ratings2.614 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks8.719 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Ontraport
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    38 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Ontraport
    7.7
    8 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Calendaring8.635 Ratings6.25 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.627 Ratings9.38 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Ontraport
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    33 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Ontraport
    7.1
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns7.828 Ratings7.13 Ratings
    Social profile integration8.320 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Ontraport
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.5
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Ontraport
    9.3
    16 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Dashboards7.356 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Standard reports7.253 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Custom reports8.053 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Ontraport
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Ontraport
    7.3
    15 Ratings
    2% below category average
    API7.879 Ratings3.011 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals8.340 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Customizability7.847 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.26 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM8.05 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM8.14 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.428 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationOntraport
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (147 ratings)
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.4
    (14 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Bloomreach Customer Support
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (110 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationOntraport
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ontraport
    Here are some cases where Ontraport is well suited : - When writing emails, you can easily access to preview, manage the changes and go back to what you did before - When using automations, if there's an error, you can go back to a previous version of it. There are also some super tools that allows to see where a clients is on an automation without having to go through the all automation. It is less appropriate when you are several colleague that are addressing an issue on an email/automation as it doesn't allows you to be multiple person on the item.
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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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    Ontraport
    • Dashboards for our daily stats.
    • The email follows up and broadcasts are simple and easy.
    • Sales and marketing can now see the impact they have working together. Nobody can point finger anymore.
    • They have the best customer support. I can't tell you how many times they have walked me through the problems that I created.
    • Amazing email inboxing.
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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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    Ontraport
    • Wish they had more options for their forms. Would really like to use multi-step forms.
    • A lot of times their forms load slowly on the website. Would like to see them speed up their services.
    • Their broadcasting options are legacy. There are better options out there for sending broadcast messages.
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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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    Ontraport
    My client was already using Ontraport and had a decent investment in the tool. As soon as we turn around the revenue situation with my client's products, we will be ditching OAP immediately, despite the significant re-implementation cost we are going to face moving to a new system. I am part of a high-end, professional marketing group, and the overwhelming sentiment with these other professionals is that one should run away from this as fast as humanly possible. I thought their words were just ungrounded opinion, and I deeply regret that I did not heed them more closely before sinking still more time and effort into OAP.
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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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    Ontraport
    The software is just easy to use. The UI is fairly intuitive. The help system is pretty good. I find it is pretty quick to get my work completed and if I don't document my things well, I can always figure out how I did something when I need to make changes. When I have a problem the tech support is easy to deal with and when things need to get escalated they are resolved quickly.
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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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    Ontraport
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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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    Ontraport
    Most of the time OP runs fine. But I've had to submit more support tickets this year do to messages, seq.'s or rules not running correctly. Also experienced slow response times moving in and around OP.
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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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    Ontraport
    The techs are reasonably savvy, highly courteous and want to do right by their customers. Unfortunately, the product they are supporting is so deeply flawed that there's only so much they can do when your legitimate business requirements are simply not supported.
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    In-Person Training
    Bloomreach
    The team was really helpful in explaining
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    Ontraport
    I went to their Ontrapalooza event, and it opened my mind as to how the software can be used.
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    Online Training
    Bloomreach
    It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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    Ontraport
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Bloomreach
    None it went smoothly
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    Ontraport
    If you know your business, ONTRAPORT is easy
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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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    Ontraport
    Task management was the main thing that separated ONTRAPORT for me. Keeping things accountable. As well, I felt the campaign builder was slicker, and that the contact management was more robust. Custom fields are very customizable.
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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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    Ontraport
    With the new lower priced options, it's now easier for newer businesses to start with a more basic version and upgrade as they need more features.
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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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    Ontraport
    • We are providing better customer service as a direct result of Ontraport. We can track where all of our customers are, what pages/sites/modules they are visiting with ease and tailor our communication accordingly.
    • Our marketing funnel has become vastly improved, meaning that our ROI for marketing has gone up. Sales this April are double what they were last year.
    • Our team works better together because we all have a better idea of what the other needs and when. The tasks that we can assign in Ontraport mean nothing gets missed, creating a better customer and employee experience.
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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

    Ontraport Screenshots

    Screenshot of Manage, track, sort and add to a contact listScreenshot of Design professional emails, forms and landing pages with block formatsScreenshot of Utilize the Support Center's in-depth advice on maximizing Ontraport's features