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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

    CustomShow.com

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    CustomShow is a B2B sales presentation platform that enables marketing teams to manage and control content while letting sales teams customize and present on multiple platforms. Combining a Slide Editor, Presentation Library and Online and Offline presenting options, CustomShow is designed to streamline workflows and gives teams the tools to build and deliver presentations.N/A

    IBM Storage Fusion

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Storage Fusion is the foundation for container-native applications running on Red Hat OpenShift, which provides enterprise grade data-storage and protection services. This solution includes data services that are critical for global enterprise applications and a data driven Red Hat OpenShift environment. IBM Storage Fusion is built on a technology that provides global access to data to container applications. The application sees the data as another local file…N/A
    Pricing
    BloomfireCustomShow.comIBM Storage Fusion
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25.00
    per month
    CustomShow
    $0
    Per User per Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomfireCustomShow.comIBM Storage Fusion
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$25No setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BloomfireCustomShow.comIBM Storage Fusion
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    Bloomfire
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    CustomShow
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    160 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    73 Answers
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    User Ratings
    BloomfireCustomShow.comIBM Storage Fusion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (174 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BloomfireCustomShow.comIBM Storage Fusion
    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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    CustomShow
    It is well suited for larger organizations. It cannot be used by single individuals like people who use Prezi or Powerpoint. If you are a large organization and looking to save on productivity, time, and improve branding across marketing and sales pitches, this software is absolutely amazing. I would highly recommend anyone heading up a company with 25 employees or more consider the software.
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    IBM
    I think its well suited for all modern programming. simple and ease of use are a plus.
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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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    CustomShow
    • It allows you collaborate and share across your organization.
    • It integrates video seamlessly into any presentation you create.
    • It have an incredible slide library management component that stores everything in the cloud for the users.
    • Used by major fortune 100 companies, it allows for organizations to present their best and look their best.
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    IBM
    • Connecting with multiple application DB of different data types and bringing the normalized data to on a roof/data lake
    • Easy to build the models and analytics that's help better understanding of business operation
    • AI models such as predictions, forecasts, and suggestions based on individual customer patterns or geo-clusters can build easily
    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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    CustomShow
    • I think the analytics piece could be improved a little more.
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    IBM
    • Improvement in areas where Software Defined Storage (SDS) can be better utilized with the broad capabilities of IBM storage features.
    • Focus should be shifted towards enabling capabilities of cyber resiliency as the other offerings in the market are already equipped with the same.
    • Broader non-IBM/Lenovo hardware support can be considered, specifically for IBM Storage fusion software offerings
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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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    CustomShow
    Because it provides a great user experience, it makes my organization look good in front of pitches, and the software is great from a collaboration perspective. Plus, I like the fact that i can use video incredible well with all of my presentations. It has minor challenges and takes time to figure out, but once you do the sky is the limit.
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    IBM
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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.
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    CustomShow
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    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.
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    CustomShow
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
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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.
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    CustomShow
    I think they are all stacking up against each other. Powerpoint is a free alternative. But I think CustomShow doesn't focus on better looking powerpoint slides....it focuses on better looking presentations period. Because of that, CustomShow is really in a different category of business presentation software and up there with Clearslide.
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    IBM
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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.
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    CustomShow
    • It has had a positive ROI in that the level of productivity in creating presentations has grown.
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    IBM
    • IBM Fusion is ideal for Enterprise businesses or Ecosystems where large data types are in play. And added benefit to bringing them under a platform to add visualization and understanding.
    • Managing and monitoring is easy when compare to other industry tool
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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.

    CustomShow.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Slide Library - drag-and-drop to build custom presentationsScreenshot of Slide Editor - Build branded slides with seamless video integrationScreenshot of Desktop Viewer - Present seamless online or offlineScreenshot of Viewing Metrics - Get detailed slide-by-slide viewing metrics