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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bloomfire

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bloomfire provides knowledge engagement, aiming to deliver an experience that connects teams and individuals with the information they need to excel at their jobs. Their cloud-based knowledge engagement platform aims to give people one centralized, searchable place to engage with shared knowledge and grow their organization's collective intelligence.

    $25

    per month

    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco Business Edition 7000 was a collaboration and universal communication, VOIP / telephony, conferencing and messaging platform for enterprises of 1000 to 5000 employees. It has been discontinued, and is superseded by functionality found in Webex Calling.N/A
    Pricing
    BloomfireCisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomfireCisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$25No setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BloomfireCisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Bloomfire
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    160 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    73 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    BloomfireCisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Bloomfire and Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    7.1
    9 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.69 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings6.77 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.49 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings6.37 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Bloomfire and Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    6.9
    9 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings5.98 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings6.56 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings5.86 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Bloomfire and Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    7.4
    9 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Versioning00 Ratings6.38 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings9.95 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings6.38 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.49 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings4.37 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BloomfireCisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (174 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BloomfireCisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bloomfire
    Ad testing:
    • PTS: needed to bring a new senior marketing team member up to speed on how we got to our current TV campaign
    • Solution: Series featuring consumer insights, why specific spokesperson, agency brief, the entire creative process - scrips, animatics, rough cuts, feedback, and testing at each step. Including the actual creative from each step.
    • Total time to build: 1 hour
    Concept testing:
    • PTS: things get lost, findable but version control
    • Solution: everything in one placeConcepts, testing, IHUTs, verbatims, videos with transcripts. Reduces the possibility of missing something, helps with any builds (reuse), but gives us a the chance to dig deeper. Example: search on terms like "indulgent", or "crispy" or "share" much faster
    • Total time to build: 1 hour
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Cisco business edition are well suited for the environment where we need regular communication as they are easy to dial and has got great features. The product is well suited for both small business and large enterprises. Speed dial, good voice quality are key features of Cisco phones. They are not well suited in scenarios where we do not have LAN connectivity or internet. Sometimes we may face latency and jitteriness which is not good.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Bloomfire
    • Quickly reach out to whatever employee segment you want to reach by posting a topic and it will send a notification to everyone in that group with a link to the posting.
    • Bloomfire saves all of the previous posts so in your free time you can go to the site, and explore the various range of topics others have posted. The information on there will only be as good as the person posting it, but it will be people within your company and industry posting it. So it will always be helpful.
    • Bloomfire is a place to be noticed by your peers. Have a great topic you want to express, my company allows all to post there as long as we keep it professional. So you can share your ideas or experiences in a safe and productive manner. But we do have some fun on there too!
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • The platform supports up to 5,000 users connected at the same time in voice and video calls.
    • Everything is virtually deployed on Cisco servers with reliability.
    • Intuitive configuration and user-friendly web interface.
    • It has several types of IP phones and is compatible with legacy and multi-brand hardware with SIP protocol.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Bloomfire
    • I would recommend adding a feature to combine different posts/series by job title (so in addition to the Revenue Ops category, there could be a structured walkthrough for Revenue Manager).
    • Live Q+A sessions for group onboarding initiatives.
    • Ability to label bookmarks by priority/job type.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • More cloud based services need to be added to the default service package.
    • Companies frequently require a small contact center within the UC environment. It would be nice to see a build it contact center in the box.
    • It would be nice to see some advanced AI based services (IVR voice recognition service) in the BE7K application list.
    • Call recording should be also built in.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bloomfire
    Most likely we will renew, our team needs a refresher on possible opportunities to advance our usage and learning of opportunities to move this answer to a 10, can't live without it.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Usability
    Bloomfire
    Bloomfire is an easy-to-use platform for posting information and asking questions of my peers. It also has a user-friendly search capability. Yet like any other CMS, the secret to success rests in such items as the ability to use metadata to tag content or posts, and Bloomfire provides a wide range of options to make posting content and subsequently searching for it.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Support Rating
    Bloomfire
    I have not needed to pose questions to the support team yet, as it is a very simple piece of software to use, however, its help documents and the bot ready to answer questions let me know I am in good hands. The help center could load a little quicker, but that's my only complaint.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bloomfire
    I like Bloomfire because it is more concise with the work I do whereas Google search engine would provide broader information. It has just been so user-friendly, and easier to use [than] I could have imagined. I would use this program over any other that I have tried in the past.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Looking at the feature sets and customer experience overall it's a good investment to make. It provides insights and also gives needed reports and statistics.
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    Return on Investment
    Bloomfire
    • Feedback from users in being able to perform transactions for members has greatly improved.
    • There has been an increase in engagement of material presented in posts by learners in training classes.
    • Reps and agents say they feel confident they can easily locate information if ever there is a need on the front line.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • It has allowed for mostly smooth communication from department to department/office to office.
    • It allows for saved phone # / last contact to appear quickly.
    • It has allowed for safety warnings/announcements to emerge all across every office so that everyone within the organization is on the same page about events when they occur.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Bloomfire Screenshots

    Screenshot of You are provided with a variety of options to brand your Bloomfire community, such as customizing its colors, displaying your organization’s logo, and building a custom Promo Bar. This creates an aesthetic that truly reflects your company’s culture.Screenshot of Bloomfire features an AI-powered search that makes sharing and searching for information a lot easier. It deep indexes every word in each piece of content, regardless of whether it’s a PDF, slide deck, video, or any other file type. The platform also creates tags for your content automatically. And if a video is uploaded, Bloomfire automatically transcribes it, making the spoken words searchable and allowing users to jump to the exact part of a video where certain keywords appear.

All of those features result in an easy and smart searching experience. There’s no need to navigate through folders or guess file names. All you need to do is perform a search like you would with Google. When searching, you can further narrow down your results based on categories such as author and content type.Screenshot of Bloomfire's AI enables you to search and find the video you are looking for based on its audio contents.Screenshot of Use Bloomfire while you work seamlessly across your favorite apps.