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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

    Quip (discontinued)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AQuip was a collaboration tool, from Salesforce, that helps sales teams accelerate business in real-time with embedded documents, live Salesforce data, and other built-in collaboration features. The product is now end of life, and is not taking new users.N/A
    Pricing
    BloomfireQuip (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomfireQuip (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
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    Considered Both Products
    Bloomfire
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    160 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 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
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    73 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    BloomfireQuip (discontinued)
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Bloomfire and Quip (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Quip (discontinued)
    8.3
    37 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.635 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.321 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.624 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.922 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.932 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings9.434 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.327 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Bloomfire and Quip (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Quip (discontinued)
    7.8
    37 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings7.636 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.635 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings8.636 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings7.321 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings9.426 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings6.110 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings6.112 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Bloomfire and Quip (discontinued)
    Feature
    Bloomfire
    -
    Ratings
    Quip (discontinued)
    8.0
    37 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings7.927 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings7.320 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings9.437 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.332 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.321 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings8.627 Ratings
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    Score5.8 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Guide
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Guru
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BloomfireQuip (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (174 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BloomfireQuip (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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    I think collaboration is probably the best use case for it allows really good drafts of documents. I think it's really good use case if you want to go track edits to documents as well. It's probably not really good for versioning control, but it's definitely, it's very, very lightweight and so you can use it on a mobile device, you can use it in any web browser. So it's very easy to use, very easily accessible. I probably wouldn't use it from a spreadsheet perspective. Well I think some of the primary functions of data sheets are there. It doesn't have some of the more complex formulas that you would typically get from Excel or something like that
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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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    • We use it as an effective way of collaboration between teams.
    • It can be used as an online spreadsheet.
    • It helps in accessing the data by multiple teams hassle-free.
    • Can customize the action like editing or locking the spreadsheet to the other users based on the business need.
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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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    • When using Quip Desktop, it can be slow to update with content from other users
    • I think it would be cool to have a PDF proofing system integrated into Quip. Once copy has gone to design, we are basically done using Quip - I'd like to bring that all together within Quip
    • Multi -select and group export of documents would be helpful
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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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    It is the best collaboration tool in my company. Through it, the organization has achieved better connectivity and efficiency in its communication. Primarily, the docs feature of this software is the most utilized in the company. Slowly, dash-boarding and project management features have also been utilized. Generally, it is the best tool, very easy and fairly streamlined
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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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    I have never used Quip's support. To be fair, we hired someone who used to work for Quip before working at our company, and he implemented it and pushed it with the team. He was very biased toward the product, and yes it was better than Google Drive, but by how much?
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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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    Google Drive is an obvious choice for a collaboration suite, but it still has this old-fashioned Windows 95 feel to it, with the standard file system hierarchy and spread-sheet like lists of files. Quip has a fresh take on the user interface, and the comments and discussion on a given file or line within a file seems more integrated and seamless, rather than a bunch of boxes out in the margin away from where you're actually reading and working. Having everything just to the left of a list or paragraph makes it easier to focus and maintain context while you're working or discussing a certain point.
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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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    • It is a tool that allows work teams to move forward in a centralized way and meet their objectives as efficiently as possible; this has allowed us to meet our customers and brought more work to the organization, therefore more revenue; I would say that the ROI was fast enough, as expected.
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    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.