Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization vs. Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 9.0 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Marketing Cloud is an AI-powered, cloud-based digital marketing platform within the Salesforce Customer 360 ecosystem. Marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.
$1,250
per month per installation
Pricing
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSalesforce Marketing Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Account Engagement
$1,250
per month
Engagement
$1,250
per month
Intelligence
$3,000
per month
Loyalty Management
$20,000
per month
Personalization
$100,000
per year
Data Cloud for Marketing
$108,000
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSalesforce Marketing Cloud
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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Considered Both Products
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud is probably most unique in its lightweight yet robust architecture. Its scenarios, even ones relying on webhooks and complex logic, run really quickly as well as reliably. Compared to Salesforce Marketing Cloud, it offers a more modular …
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Stand out topics:
- Ease of use
- Multi-market support
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
From a functionality perspective, Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud is on par or better than both alternatives at a much better price level.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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. …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
It does about the same as all the others. We really only use it for emails.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
I think Bloomreach has better visual design than the ones I already worked on, however it could be to the fact that it's a newer product, so they have had a chance to build it from the scratch. Creating scenarios is also easier and quicker. I think Salesforce is more convenient …
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Chose Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Salesforce Marketing Cloud stands out for its comprehensive features, scalability, and seamless integration capabilities. Compared to other platforms, its unified suite of tools for email, social media, mobile, and advertising enables streamlined cross-channel campaign …
Features
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSalesforce Marketing Cloud
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
84 Ratings
3% above category average
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7.6
170 Ratings
0% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.374 Ratings7.7121 Ratings
Dynamic content7.680 Ratings7.8152 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.179 Ratings7.1111 Ratings
Landing pages6.745 Ratings7.5120 Ratings
A/B testing8.080 Ratings7.5150 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.471 Ratings7.0110 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.382 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
List management7.668 Ratings8.0128 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.060 Ratings7.694 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.5
68 Ratings
4% below category average
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7.9
123 Ratings
1% above category average
Lead nurturing automation8.057 Ratings8.1108 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading7.455 Ratings7.9109 Ratings
Data quality management7.363 Ratings7.6115 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks7.237 Ratings8.2100 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.3
63 Ratings
2% below category average
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7.6
113 Ratings
2% above category average
Calendaring7.458 Ratings7.8102 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.344 Ratings7.396 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7.3
87 Ratings
2% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns7.241 Ratings7.682 Ratings
Social profile integration7.932 Ratings7.138 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.5
82 Ratings
3% above category average
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7.7
123 Ratings
6% above category average
Dashboards6.882 Ratings8.0117 Ratings
Standard reports8.279 Ratings7.7122 Ratings
Custom reports7.578 Ratings7.499 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
109 Ratings
5% above category average
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7.5
123 Ratings
1% above category average
API7.5103 Ratings7.189 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.165 Ratings7.388 Ratings
Customizability7.573 Ratings7.0110 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.29 Ratings8.0112 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.611 Ratings8.513 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.68 Ratings7.610 Ratings
Third-party software integrations7.849 Ratings7.023 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSalesforce Marketing Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(174 ratings)
8.0
(328 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(9 ratings)
8.2
(114 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(54 ratings)
7.9
(37 ratings)
Availability
8.5
(16 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Performance
8.3
(15 ratings)
9.6
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(136 ratings)
7.0
(36 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.4
(2 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.2
(4 ratings)
3.0
(17 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.8
(2 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(16 ratings)
7.4
(39 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.9
(2 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Bloomreach
Perfect for onboarding, retention, win-back, and VIP nurture campaigns where customer behavior and timing matter. Excellent when you need to react instantly to customer actions across channels.


Example: A shopper abandons their cart and immediately receives a push notification followed by an email with the exact items they left behind.
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Salesforce
I think the product, by definition, is meant for marketing — and we use it exactly for that, for running campaigns. That’s the best-suited use case for the product. I don’t think it’s really meant to be used for anything else — that’s just not how it’s designed.
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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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Salesforce
  • Filter relevant content so you can priorize those that are more relevant and resolve it first
  • Measure the traffic in the different social networks, as well as the response rate, average response time and other relevant metrics
  • Configure automation rules to order the work of those who must interact with the customer
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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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Salesforce
  • The email builder does not offer any way to catch/check bugs across different email service providers
  • Creating SQL is not as easy as drag-and-drop; a lot of technical knowledge is required
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud is sold as a marketing tool, but to be honest, you need a LOT of technical IT support to run the tool
  • Einstein metrics are across the board; if you have multiple audiences in one instance of Salesforce Marketing Cloud you can't segment the data.
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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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Salesforce
As of right now we have not seen any other program that integrates as seamlessly into our Salesforce platform. We have barely scratched the surface of all the features and use cases. It would be irresponsible to make a move to another platform in the near future. We have not come up against any limitations that would prompt a need to switch
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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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Salesforce
You won't find another solution that has as many features as Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio. We all know Salesforce, we all know how big they are and it's not for nothing... Their tools do most of the things you want, need and even imagine. Using it is complicated, but the usability is infinite.
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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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Salesforce
Upgrades and timing of the upgrades were communicated well and planned during off hours for our work. If we did have a campaign scheduled during that time, it would kick-off after the system was back active. There were a few unplanned system down times, but it was a rare occurrence and those times were also short in duration.
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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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Salesforce
Though the make up of MA apps is not built this way today, it would be nice to see them become more real-time. The integration between Salesforce and Pardot is not a true real-time integration. If I modify something in Salesforce, those changes are not automatically reflected in Pardot immediately. There is a delay of about 15 minutes before the systems sync. This delay, although not long, is less than ideal We would love the systems to be integrated real time such that changes are propagated from one system to the other immediately.
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Support Rating
Bloomreach
I have given this rating as i feel the team is very responsive and helpful whenever issues arise. Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization provides clear guidance and practical solutions which make it easier to get campaigns live quickly. They also share the best practices and recommendations that help us make the most of the platform.
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Salesforce
They are really responsive and more than not solve the problem or give you insight to how you can manage the solution yourself. I do find however sometimes a long delay on the more complex issues when they need to loop in other departments. but overall a good experience with support
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The team was really helpful in explaining
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Salesforce
The trainers at the Pardot user conference (Elevate and Connections) were very knowledgeable and presented the material well. Again, the content was targeted to more of a new user audience, and was not really relevant for folks who had been using the product for 2+ years.
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Online Training
Bloomreach
It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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Salesforce
Pardot's online training touches on all topics briefly and vaguely without much indepth exploration into how a final outcome could look, such as Nurturing Campaigns, Email templates, landing page templates, etc... The only true way to uncover Pardot's full capabilities is to have Front End design and coding experience. Without this key skill set, I would not recommend Pardot to another business.
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
None it went smoothly
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Salesforce
From an IT perspective, once you set up the Javascript beacon and start collecting data there is a waiting game. During this time you can start labeling your site actions which can be labor intensive for a single person, but you don't really have the final end-users on the platform yet. We did a lot of training so users were experienced, but it wasn't until they had their first tasks to accomplish that they started using the system and had questions. I'd recommend setting up some immediate goals for an end-user to start segmenting for the purpose of displaying message campaigns so you can jump start end-user action.
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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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Salesforce
We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud for lead management, generating reports, tracking customer and dealer information, inputting orders, and more. I prefer HubSpot for email marketing and automation because it is easier to use and the emails are designed much better. We currently use Salesforce and HubSpot, and we are very happy to have both, as they have different pros/cons.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Bloomreach
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
was not involved with this part but i have not heard about clompaints
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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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Salesforce
Prior to this, we had no solution and literally were doing things on paper in a world where technology is outpacing paper. Having this process optimized has made it easier for the sales and marketing people to change information. From the training perspective, it has allowed us to see holes in where we could create additional support training, so the ROI here has been a lot more than just the optimization of a process.
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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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Salesforce
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to more efficiently reach out to a higher number of prospects.
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to nimbly communicate important messages in a timely fashion to facilitate conversion.
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to track who is opening our messages so that we can stop sending to those not interested and focus on the most engaged audiences.
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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

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Pardot Analytics - Pardot's reporting and analytics can be used to perform true revenue impact analysis and closed-loop reporting.Screenshot of Pardot Email Analytics - The reach and impact of  email marketing efforts are displayed in real-time with advanced reporting and analytics by device, and email client.Screenshot of Pardot Forms and Landing Pages - Pardot's form and landing page builders are used to turn online traffic to leads with targeted offers and content marketing.Screenshot of Pardot Email Marketing - Lead nurturing flows are defined via an interface that enables definition of the simplest or most complex segmented and targeted campaigns.