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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

    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Bronto Marketing Platform was an email marketing solution from Oracle which was acquired from NetSuite in 2016. It was optimized for creating automated, yet personalized emails, and subscriber profile segments, analyzing click and visit behavior, and tracking geolocation. It has since been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    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.Request pricing at info@bronto.com.
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Bloomreach
    Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Bloomreach is much much easier to use, it has quick loading times, user friendly interface and more features
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
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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
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    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
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    Features
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    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.9
    56 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    7% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.651 Ratings7.050 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.852 Ratings6.450 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.951 Ratings6.449 Ratings
    Landing pages6.425 Ratings4.525 Ratings
    A/B testing7.954 Ratings9.055 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.345 Ratings7.850 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.755 Ratings9.458 Ratings
    List management8.044 Ratings7.456 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.638 Ratings8.448 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.3
    43 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation8.936 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.337 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management7.340 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 Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    38 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Calendaring8.535 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 Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    33 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns7.828 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration8.320 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    7.5
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Dashboards7.356 Ratings7.857 Ratings
    Standard reports7.153 Ratings7.856 Ratings
    Custom reports8.053 Ratings7.143 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    API7.879 Ratings00 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
    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (147 ratings)
    8.1
    (60 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.4
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Bloomreach Customer Support
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (110 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    If you're a mid-size to larger business and rely on regular email engagement from customers, then Bronto Marketing Platform could be a potentially great partner if not game-changer for how you've been doing email campaign management previously. Their automation tools and development interface is amicable. The amount of data that's collected and available from engagement with subscribers through their tools can be overwhelming. Still, if you enjoy digging into every kernel of possible user activity information, you'll love it.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • It's easy to work with – it has seamless integration across all platforms, which helps when you're working with big clientele.
    • It's logically organized, which can't be said of all ESP's.
    • It has the LIVE CHAT support. A lot of email marketing clients simply don't have that. It's the little things!
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • Segmenting- although there's a lot that can be done with segmenting audiences, there's a bit of a learning curve when it comes to setting up segments. Wish it was more intuitive.
    • Workflows- setting up automation workflows requires some practice and I've needed to consult a Bronto support person each time I set up a new workflow.
    • Bronto Pop-up manager- we use this feature, not sure how common it is among Bronto clients, but there is overall some improvement needed with this tool. There is limited capability to update the look and feel of the pop-up manager, and we've run into some conflicts with other pop-ups on our website interfering with the Bronto pop-up.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Never really had any issues that caused out-of-the-ordinary frustration levels. Of course, you'll have days where the learning curve of using a tool gets challenging. Still, I don't remember ever really coming across an obstacle or roadblock while using the tool because of a feature or function it just couldn't do successfully or at all. Customer support was always available as needed, and it was generally easy to find answers to questions when they arose.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Usability is great. Very intuitive drag-and-drip metaphor for building automations. And the UI is very user-centric. It constantly prompts you with suggestions and next steps such that you hardly have to refer to the (excellent) documentation.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    I never experienced any downtime.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No issues.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    They used to be good, but they've evolved into a monolithic bureaucratic nightmare after the Netsuite / Oracle acquisition. Can't talk to anyone that actually knows the system and support tickets seem to go days or weeks without responses and resolution.
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    In-Person Training
    Bloomreach
    The team was really helpful in explaining
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
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    Online Training
    Bloomreach
    It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    They have lots of videos on list importing / segmentation / report customization etc. when you sign on they give a link to online tutorials and documentation which is very helpful. They have very helpful PDFs on how to import / set up platform
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    Implementation Rating
    Bloomreach
    None it went smoothly
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Easy to set up.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Bronto hits the sweet spot for us. It is most similar to the Salesforce family of products. Salesforce however can feel cluttered and configuration and setup can be time consuming and confusing. Bronto is much more streamlined and also has features built in that may require additional purchases in the Salesforce world. Adobe Campaign is a very powerful solution and can do many things hard to achieve in Bronto. However, Campaign is much more of a developer tool where Bronto is easy to learn and use right out of the box.
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
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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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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • Offering great reporting for tracking everything. I can see what emails are working (I track on a monthly basis) and what people are clicking.
    • A/B split testing lets us try different things. Try this and that.
    • Creating lists and segments of subscribers lets us look at who is the best performing contacts. Really get 'into the data' and understand what is working and what is not.
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    ScreenShots

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    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