Braze vs. Leanplum

Braze is likely at its best for companies that engage with customers on both an app-level and web-level. It gets even better if you have the opportunity to leverage some of the additional channels Braze unlocks such as in-app messages and content cards. If you're only using Braze to send SMS and Email and the occasional push, you're likely better off finding a cheaper platform. Braze organizes its analytics in a very odd way in my experience, so I'd also recommend pairing Braze with a secondary reporting tool of your choosing.

Incentivized

I think Leanplum is great for any company that needs to use push notification to drive revenue or KPI growth. I often find that it can be very costly to integrate analytics solutions & also build good reporting from the data. Leanplum provides a lot of great analytics & reporting right out of the box, especially around push events. This makes it much easier for the managing marketing user to optimize campaigns and increase their team & company's KPIs.

Incentivized

• Canvases are a straightforward way to dynamically target users
• We have a lot of control over our email templates- especially compared to the last service we used
• Built-in reporting is fantastic and offers solid insight
• Braze integration with our consumer-facing App opened up a lot of options for us when running promos

Incentivized

• Viewing the history of a campaign. Leanplum shows exactly what a customer has been sent on which dates/times and due to which actions.
• AB Testing - allows us to see which messages are appreciated/opened more by which customers
• Team collaboration - we can see easily how recently a campaign or message was updated

Incentivized

• It offers analytics insights, but this is still not incredibly detailed
• It takes a while for features on the product roadmap to be implemented
• The drag-and-drop editors of their marketing channels (Email & IAM) could use some improvement in terms of more functionality and tweaking abilities

Incentivized

• Ability to create User Stories with a predefined funnel of actions that will chain themselves
• Ability to tag users once they enter or leave specific segments
• Should show in a simple page the main KPIS that matter for all our games at once
• More granularity in granting access to subsets (not sharing everything per account)

Incentivized

Braze's usability is one of the main things that makes it stand out from its competitors. The UX and UI are excellent, and it ensures it is not overcomplicated where it doesn't need to be. The online documentation is also handy to help support teams in your business.

Incentivized

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

Compared to Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Braze is much more user friendly, flexible and provides for easier segmentation and personalization. The reporting in Braze is also much easier to use. Compared to Marketo, Braze has a better UI and UX, and an easier learning curve for new users. The set up and maintenance of customer journeys is much easier. The only thing I miss from Marketo is the ability to view the customer log, which allows you to see the automation that happens against each user profile, allowing for easier troubleshooting.

Incentivized

I was not a part of making the decision to use Leanplum over its competitors.

Incentivized

• Positive: A growth hacking experiment was proven successful in nudging users who abandoned their cart after checking out with a product/service and leaving their chart or 24 hours.
• Positive: A growth hacking experiment was proven successful in nudging users whose credit card failed when trying to upgrade to a paid account.
• Negative: With the plethora of teams (disciplines / business units / markets) with access to braze, it's easy to accidentally over-nurture users.

• It helps us build the right features for our users with the help of A/B experimentation
• Re-engagement notifications help us keep company data metrics

Incentivized