Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization vs. mParticle

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Bloomreach is presented as an agentic platform for personalization. Powering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, Bloomreach personalizes the entire customer experience. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses can use Bloomreach to create experiences that drive growth and loyalty. Bloomreach states that they currently drive personalization for 1,400+…N/A
mParticle
Score 8.3 out of 10
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The mParticle customer data platform supports data collection from a wide variety of sources and provides standardization, cleansing and deduping, and tags, as well as data enrichment via scoring, contextual or behavioral data, as well as segmentation and customer profile management.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.
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Community Pulse
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Features
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationmParticle
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
87 Ratings
3% above category average
mParticle
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WYSIWYG email editor8.377 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.683 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.182 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages6.748 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing8.083 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.474 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.385 Ratings00 Ratings
List management7.571 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences7.862 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.5
71 Ratings
4% below category average
mParticle
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Lead nurturing automation8.060 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading7.457 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management7.366 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks7.238 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.3
64 Ratings
2% below category average
mParticle
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Calendaring7.459 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.345 Ratings00 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.5
48 Ratings
1% above category average
mParticle
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Social sharing and campaigns7.241 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration7.932 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.5
85 Ratings
3% above category average
mParticle
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Dashboards6.885 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.382 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.581 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
112 Ratings
5% above category average
mParticle
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API7.5106 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.168 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability7.576 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.68 Ratings00 Ratings
Third-party software integrations7.851 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationmParticle
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(175 ratings)
6.8
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(9 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(54 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
8.4
(17 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(16 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(138 ratings)
8.0
(10 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.3
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.8
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(17 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
7.9
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationmParticle
Likelihood to Recommend
Bloomreach
Bloomreach is a great solution, and I have already recommended it to a previous colleague! On the whole it it intuitive and easy to pick up, so is a great solution when you need to get started and make progress early on. It's perfect for delivering ongoing automations to customers based on attributes or activity as well as delivering one off mail shots.
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mParticle
If you can't trust the data you get into your customer journey service or user behavior analysis tool, mParticle can make a difference quickly. We used it to great success getting from untrustworthy data to reliable data in no time. If you already have a great data pipeline or use a user behavior analysis tool that includes checks for ensuring the trustworthiness of data, you might not need mParticle. If you have a lot of external or internal services you need to connect to your customer data, then mParticle is definitely worth looking at.
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Pros
Bloomreach
  • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
  • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
  • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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mParticle
  • Collect customer data from multiple sources.
  • Integrated with wide breadth of vendors and verticals.
  • Helps track unregistered user data into registered user data.
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Cons
Bloomreach
  • While Importing the offline data, sometimes the auto detection is failed to detect the csv file
  • While we import with wrong mapping, even after pressing escape before the import starts, its not cancelling the import. it start running. It would be great if it stops the import
  • it would be great if we receive email for successfully finished imports too
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mParticle
  • Support - often times it feels like they're trying to create a sales opportunity rather than actually provide support - whether it's technical or non-technical.
  • Some connection setups are not as consistent with respect to the procedure of setting up the connection, e.g. setting user identities in Braze.
  • Audiences...definitely not as robust as Amplitude
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Likelihood to Renew
Bloomreach
We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
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mParticle
It's a great tool for beginners but not scalable to advance use cases. It's not it's a fault in our case, because any platform is as good as the data collected
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Usability
Bloomreach
In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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mParticle
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Reliability and Availability
Bloomreach
It has always been available with great response times. Honestly in almost 5 years there was like one outage and I have to admit that it was solved so quick that I don't even know if it's fair to even call it that. Bloomreach is extremely reliable, can't fault it.
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mParticle
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Performance
Bloomreach
ten out of ten, Bloomreach has revolutionised our marketing capabilities. It has allowed us to get real time data insights from our customers, and then put these into action. Previously it would be a very time consuming and slow process for us to get any sort of campaign out but not anymore, this has lead to increased conversions and revenue
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mParticle
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Support Rating
Bloomreach
I would rate Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization’s support an 8 out of 10. The team is responsive, knowledgeable, and proactive in helping us implement and scale our use of Engagement, and their guidance has been valuable in accelerating time-to-value. There’s still some room for improvement around more hands-on guidance with complex use cases (like weblayer prioritization or advanced reporting), but overall the support has been strong and dependable.
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mParticle
Superb technical support, always going the extra mile to understand your problem and work towards solutions. Specifically, the team are happy to jump on Zoom to troubleshoot the problem.
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The team was really helpful in explaining
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mParticle
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Online Training
Bloomreach
It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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mParticle
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
None it went smoothly
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mParticle
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Alternatives Considered
Bloomreach
Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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mParticle
mParticle has a bigger catalog of services you can interface with and provides a more complete check for data integrity. It also allows you to use any analytics solution.
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Scalability
Bloomreach
there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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mParticle
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Return on Investment
Bloomreach
  • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
  • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
  • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
  • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
  • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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mParticle
  • Negative: Quite a lot overlaps with the work being done on the Data Warehouse as a CDP.
  • Positive: Able to connect to 3rd party tools with small effort (Appsflyer).
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ScreenShots

Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization Screenshots

Screenshot of funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of web layers with A/B testingScreenshot of the drag and drop campaign editorScreenshot of the WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templatesScreenshot of the CRM with 360° customer behaviour history