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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 Webex Social (Discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACisco Webex Social has been retired and is no longer supported.N/A
    Pricing
    BloomfireCisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25.00
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomfireCisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$25No setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    BloomfireCisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Bloomfire
    No answer on this topic
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    160 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    73 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    BloomfireCisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Bloomfire and Cisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Cisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Bloomfire and Cisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Cisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Document collaboration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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    BloomfireCisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
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    Score9.2 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
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    Guru
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BloomfireCisco Webex Social (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (174 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 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 Webex Social (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
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    Cisco
    For the most part, this is a great software solution for the average user. For consulting it's ok, but [there aren't] that many reach features.
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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!
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    Cisco
    • Easy to use.
    • No special setup.
    • Doesn't require any special hardware.
    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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    Cisco
    • Recording feature cannot record phone sound just computer sound.
    • Recording feature does not generate a file with "known" extension, it needs specific player.
    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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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Cisco
    It is simpler to use compared to other tools. Microsoft has a great product but there are a lot of bugs. And compared to GoToMeeting it has more features.
    Incentivized
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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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    Cisco
    • It is good, helps tremendously and saves a lot of time in case you have to go see what user is doing or understand what they are trying to achieve.
    • Great user experience.
    • Users like it.
    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.