Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization vs. Sitecore Search

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
Sitecore Search
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Sitecore Search (or Sitecore Discover, formerly Reflektion), is a customer centric personalization platform that optimizes customer experiences on an individual basis in real time.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSitecore Search
Free Trial
NoYes
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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Features
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSitecore Search
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
Sitecore Search
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WYSIWYG email editor8.374 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.680 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.179 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages6.745 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing8.080 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.471 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.382 Ratings00 Ratings
List management7.568 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.060 Ratings00 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
Sitecore Search
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Lead nurturing automation8.057 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading7.455 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management7.363 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks7.237 Ratings00 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
Sitecore Search
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Calendaring7.458 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.344 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
Sitecore Search
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Social sharing and campaigns7.241 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration7.832 Ratings00 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
Sitecore Search
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Dashboards6.882 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.279 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.578 Ratings00 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
Sitecore Search
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API7.5103 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.165 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability7.573 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.68 Ratings00 Ratings
Third-party software integrations7.849 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSitecore Search
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(174 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(9 ratings)
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Usability
8.6
(54 ratings)
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Availability
8.5
(16 ratings)
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Performance
8.3
(15 ratings)
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Support Rating
7.9
(136 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
8.6
(16 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
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for PersonalizationSitecore Search
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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Sitecore
Reflektion is very well suited for ecommerce sites that are looking to provide their customers meaningful product recommendations tailored to their specific user experience on our site. We are also beginning to use Reflektion for search results. If you find that your customer base uses your search bar or is having issues with their search experience, Reflektion offers a great auto complete search results feature. We have a sister site that only offers a small catalog of products and we do no use the auto search results feature on this site. If your company has a small catalog the search results tool may not be as effective. I cannot think of a scenario in which an ecommerce site would not find it helpful to provide customized product recommendations to their customers.
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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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Sitecore
  • Reflektion provides individualized results based off each customer's unique browse experience on the site. This is beneficial because it gets more accurate results than segmenting customers by certain behaviors consistent with other customers.
  • Reflektion is responsive to our business. They treat each request with professionalism and work to find solutions quickly.
  • Reflektion has several beneficial features to further enhance the customer experience through a learning environment. Reflektion learns synonyms and is able to adjust for more accurate results. They also provide full page results with faceted navigation which leverages the individualized learning into the product results specific for each customer in a seamless integration with the site.
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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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Sitecore
  • While I mentioned that training our team in using the Reflektion dashboard was quite pain free, the dashboard can get a little overwhelming to a first time user. There are a lot of options and customization features available that can be intimidating at first.
  • There isn't really too much for us to criticize with Reflektion. As I said, we switched from another product to Reflektion and so far have had almost no issues. When they do come up, the Reflektion team has been very helpful.
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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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Sitecore
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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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Sitecore
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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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Sitecore
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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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Sitecore
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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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Sitecore
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The team was really helpful in explaining
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Sitecore
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Online Training
Bloomreach
It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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Sitecore
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
None it went smoothly
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Sitecore
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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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Sitecore
Reflektion is a very cost-effective, complete solution providing individualization for preview search, product recommendations, full page search, and content. Compared to the other services they offered more features utilizing SOLR results but with continued learning. Other services didn't have the full list of capabilities or were much more expensive.
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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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Sitecore
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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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Sitecore
  • Increasing conversion rate is almost always the goal when we start a new project and it is safe to say that Reflektion has helped us increase conversion rate for customers clicking through product recommendations.
  • With our previous recommendations engine, tweaking and customizing the recommendations on our site was not nearly as effective or easy as it is with Reflektion. This has saved us countless hours in dev and manual operations work.
  • We have not seen any negative impacts of Reflektion and hope this continues.
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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

Sitecore Search Screenshots

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