Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization vs. Retainly

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
Retainly
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Retainly is an automated engagement platform that helps businesses maximize customer retention. The app enables users to automate emails, web push notifications, and SMS messages to retain customers and drive lifetime value. Retention & LTV: Increasingly business leaders are expecting marketing and product teams to play a key role in the growth – and customer retention is the critical platform on which…
$15
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationRetainly
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
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
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.1
89 Ratings
6% above category average
Retainly
8.3
2 Ratings
9% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.478 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Dynamic content8.485 Ratings9.22 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.784 Ratings9.22 Ratings
Landing pages6.849 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing8.485 Ratings7.72 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.876 Ratings3.61 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.787 Ratings9.22 Ratings
List management7.673 Ratings9.22 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences7.964 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
73 Ratings
0% below category average
Retainly
9.1
2 Ratings
15% above category average
Lead nurturing automation8.162 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading8.259 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Data quality management7.968 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks7.240 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.4
66 Ratings
0% below category average
Retainly
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Calendaring7.361 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.447 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
49 Ratings
1% above category average
Retainly
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Social sharing and campaigns7.242 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration7.833 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
87 Ratings
7% above category average
Retainly
9.0
2 Ratings
21% above category average
Dashboards7.087 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Standard reports8.284 Ratings9.22 Ratings
Custom reports8.283 Ratings9.22 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.1
114 Ratings
9% above category average
Retainly
8.5
2 Ratings
13% above category average
API8.1108 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.670 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Customizability8.178 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.311 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Third-party software integrations7.953 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationRetainly
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(177 ratings)
9.2
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(10 ratings)
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Usability
8.6
(54 ratings)
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Availability
8.4
(18 ratings)
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Performance
8.0
(17 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.1
(140 ratings)
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In-Person Training
8.3
(2 ratings)
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Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
7.2
(4 ratings)
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Configurability
8.6
(2 ratings)
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Ease of integration
8.8
(2 ratings)
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Product Scalability
8.4
(18 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
7.9
(2 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Bloomreach
If a genuine 360-degree view of the customer is needed, BR is the ideal choice. It manages to combine all data into clear sections, based on which great campaigns can be created. You can plan dynamic or static campaigns for all channels with a preview. The visual builder also makes the work much easier. On the other hand, it requires the implementation of all systems and potential data adjustment. It requires some effort for one to learn how to work with all sections. Reporting, in particular, is a bit more complicated.
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Retainly
Retainly allowed me to take customer engagement to the next level. I felt an advantage of its low-code functionality, user-friendliness, intuitive automation, and pre-built integrations with a range of other marketing tools. I saw a noticeable difference in my marketing performance and customer retention results after almost 2 months of usage. As a marketer, I managed to automate heavy manual effort to run marketing my campaigns.
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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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Retainly
  • Segments creation
  • Workflow creation
  • Workspace creation
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Cons
Bloomreach
  • Could improve some of the dashboarding to make reporting on emails more time efficient
  • Could offer a way to easily combine email templates if they already exist separately
  • A way to allow multiple people to work in a scenario at the same time and all saves be registered
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Retainly
  • Analytics can be improved
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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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Retainly
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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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Retainly
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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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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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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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Retainly
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The Training was awesome
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Online Training
Bloomreach
very informative and patient
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Retainly
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
All the deployments were done on time
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Retainly
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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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Retainly
Retainly has a unique and better workflow creation process.
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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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Retainly
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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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Retainly
  • Set - up automated workflow sequences across the customer journey
  • Less manual intervention to manage campaign
  • 15 % Reduce of drop-offs in the customer experience
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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

Retainly Screenshots

Screenshot of Here you can access your project overview and other important project-wide information.Screenshot of Create simple and extended dynamic Segments.Screenshot of Create new and manage existing workspaces.Screenshot of Connect Retainlys' and 3d party integrations.Screenshot of Access and create automated workflows, review workflow analytics.