Barilliance vs. LiftIgniter Real-time Personalization Platform

For any company that needs an immediate tool to address Abandonment email campaign needs that are not addressed in their current ESP, Barilliance is the tool for them. Any company seeking a robust, fully data-driven solution that provides personalization or dynamic experiences should look elsewhere. Many ESP's provide their own solutions, but if yours does not, Barilliance is a perfect fit.

Incentivized

LiftIgniter is well suited for:

• Media companies without the resources to develop their own content recommendations systems.
• eCommerce companies who want to get product recommendations live onsite quickly.

LiftIgniter is less appropriate:

• Organizations with a shallow content set onsite.

• Barilliance displayed some of the best customer support I've had the pleasure of receiving. Their responses were timely and informative.
• Barilliance provided us with a month to month contract which allowed us to make the right business decisions at the right time. Their price point was also extremely competitive.
• While not the most robust solution, Barilliance hit all of the necessary functionality and activity to help us address our need for abandonment campaigns.

Incentivized

• It does a good job recommending content that is related to the current story a user is on.
• It does a good job not recommending content the user has already viewed.
• It does a good job being a recommendation engine for disparate sites with related content.

• Barilliance has limited optimization potential. They do the basics of abandonment very well but do not have program growth tools in place.
• Barilliance has a limited amount of data integrations available. For data-driven companies, some in-house solutions may need to be developed for full customer behavioral data.
• The Barilliance Portal, while not being poorly designed, takes some getting used to, in addition to providing very little static support. This is addressed by their excellent customer service but can slow the self-help opportunities.

Incentivized

• Manually controlling certain undesired results is not straight forward and seems to often result in a lower CTR or conversion rates.
• The LI Dashboard has limited features.

Barilliance filled a campaign gap that IBM Watson could not deliver effectively or cost-effectively. We recently moved ESP's and are now provided with a holistic email solution through Bronto. We are ecstatic to be working with Bronto, but I have very few negative things to say about our time with Barilliance.

Incentivized

It's the best. Our only other option was rolling out our own and LiftIgniter was easier to implement and performed better for related content.

• Barilliance was able to produce an effective ROI for our company. Their month to month plan allowed us to be agile as we grew.

Incentivized

• Increased time on site
• Decreased bounce rate
• 5-15% CTR for users which saw recommendations