Bloomfire vs. EGroupware

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomfire
Score 8.5 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
EGroupware
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
EGroupware is more than a standard groupware: Web-based: allows device-independent access via web browser Configurable and customisable masks. User-defined fields Information can be used as variables in document generation or in e-mails Generated documents can be edited in online office, sent by e-mail or shared via file sharing Permissions on modules, functions, data, ressources, other user data, to ensure secure data Access can be…N/A
Pricing
BloomfireEGroupware
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BloomfireEGroupware
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$25 Optional
Additional DetailsThere are pricing models for active users and concurrent logins. In addition, the prices are scaled according to the number of users and special agreements (also flat rates) are possible. Rocket.Chat is offered at an annual flat rate. Collabora Online per user. Discounts for NGOs, schools and universities.
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
BloomfireEGroupware
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(174 ratings)
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(0 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
BloomfireEGroupware
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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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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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.
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EGroupware GmbH
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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.
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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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EGroupware GmbH
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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.
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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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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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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.

EGroupware Screenshots

Screenshot of EGroupware - 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿
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𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 / 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘀 with 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 enable clear scheduling. 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 always offer the optimal view of the calendar. Views can be saved as 𝗙𝗮𝘃𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 (𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺).
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Like all EGroupware records, 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿-𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀 can be created in the calendar and used together with the standard fields for 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (including form letters, tables, presentations and e-mails).
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Appointments can be 𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 with 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 and 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.
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More information about the EGroupware calendar:
https://www.egroupware.org/en/calendar