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    Braze

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ABraze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and brands. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns.N/A
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    Braze
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    Braze is probably the best email/messaging/lifecycle platform for app-based businesses that aren't in CPG. I can't speak to how well Braze works for ecommerce - I'd probably prefer Klaviyo for an ecomm brand, but against Iterable, Braze excels. There is a lot of parity with …
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    Pricing and Native Tools made us choose Braze.
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    Proactive and helpful client support - Regular meetings with our account managers allow us to channel our doubts and queries effortlessly and their response has always met our expectations. Both the CX and customer support with Ontraport were very disappointing.
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    Klaviyo was good at selling things. We wanted to engage beyond the purchase as a subscription business.
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    Pricing and capbilities are better
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    Braze handles real-time events and real-time sending incredibly well - in a way that is much more transparent and clear compared to HubSpot.
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    Cannot compare, really. Salesforce Agentforce Marketing (or Salesforce Marketing Cloud as it was known for a long time) is stuck in the 2000s. Yes, they may have added a few features, but it's simply not fit for purpose for a CRM function that wants to do proper CRM and build a …
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    Iterable couldn't get their costs to match Braze, despite expressing serious confidence that they would. Mailchimp has nowhere near the level of automation or targeting complexity.
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    Braze is way more user friendly and simpler interface
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    Roughly the same as Marketo wrt to ease of use, functionality. Marketo was a bit more flexible in segmentation logic which helped the HEMS business.

    Salesforce was the weakest of the three - an old email platform bolted onto a newer messaging platform. Some functionality …
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    Braze has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to Bloomreach and Hubspot. Personally I prefer Bloomreach for lifecycle journey and orchestration however I've felt integration and scaling to be more straightforward with Braze. Other platforms have been reviewed but for …
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    I am not a CRM, mobile-CRM, or lifecycle marketing technology expert.

    Braze is distinct from the other tools I have used due to the SDK integration and feature set specifically suited for mobile app product-led companies like mine.
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    Braze offers stronger tutorials and more flexible personalization and targeting options compared to other platforms I’ve used. While other tools included some of the same features, they were harder to learn because of limited tutorials or confusing UX/UI. Many of them also used …
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    Over time, I realize that I need a platform that gives me the benefit of each platform all in one without having to switch for each benefit and that's why I went with Braze.
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    Braze allows for a better ROI on emails sent and a better package of capabilities than what we were using with Mailchimp
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    Braze is a cross-channel and data-driven tool. It is much more intuitive and easier to use. It supports a high volume of sending. Braze team provides excellent follow-up and support, and we are part of a large community of clients who share knowledge and help.
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    Braze is a more comprehensive product with more integrated features.
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    Braze is just the best one when it comes to aesthetics and usability, which matter when you're working every day, making complex or even simple changes to highly contextual campaigns for multiple stakeholders. Even without following tutorials, you just get it instantly and …
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    blows Salesforce out of the water way more user friendly and much easier to learn
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    Braze offers increased automation and data integration with better customer support and management than the likes of Saleforce. The features available in Braze far outreach that of Twilio SendGrid, which we used as a basic email comms platform rather than full CEP. eInsight CRM
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    I actually really liked Iterable, but was forced internally to switch platforms due to its inability to handle our volume and its rising costs. Iterable was much easier to use out of the box, and I preferred much of its UI, but ultimately, our business outgrew it. We spent 9 …
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Braze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (162 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (129 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Braze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Braze
    If you're looking for a reliable, automated system to run customer feedback programme like the NPS, Braze offers possibly the best platform to operate such kind of a campaign. In addition, if you are looking to build email campaigns for existing clients with the goal of retention or relationship-building, Braze offers much better email delivery and engagement rates.
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    Pros
    Braze
    • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
    • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
    • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
    • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
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    Cons
    Braze
    • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
    • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
    • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
    • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Braze
    We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
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    Usability
    Braze
    From my experience thus far, Braze is able to deeply integrate into a variety of tools and I haven't found a use case where Braze cannot offer a solution to an integration requirement. Integrations have been very easy to setup and developers have been able to manage and upgrade these seamlessly.
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    Support Rating
    Braze
    Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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    Online Training
    Braze
    It's really well explained, there are lots of documentation about all topics. When we want to perform in a specific area, there are always a dedicated path. For each new feature, there is always some videos explaining the purpose and the new functionalities. Also I used to do the certification which allows me to show my achievements in my business environment.
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    Braze
    Braze is a cross-channel and data-driven tool. It is much more intuitive and easier to use. It supports a high volume of sending. Braze team provides excellent follow-up and support, and we are part of a large community of clients who share knowledge and help.
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    Return on Investment
    Braze
    • We saved a couple of million by switching from Salesforce to Braze.
    • We increased our engagement for a limited-time promo by 33% by simply running a 4-variant subject line test.
    • We managed to reduce our unsubscribe volume by 18% by excluding dormant users.
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