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What is Bloomreach?

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+ brands around the world, including Bosch, Puma, and Marks & Spencer.

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funnels that simplify targeting.
retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.
web layers with A/B testing
the drag and drop campaign editor
the WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templates
the CRM with 360° customer behaviour history
a single customer view detail
Bloomreach Engagement performance analytics dashboard
the asset manager, and templates
the Experience manager
the Experience manager - banner
the product grid editor

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Top Performing Features

  • Mobile optimization

    Users can easily optimize emails and landing pages for mobile devices.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Email deliverability reporting

    The software helps ensure inbox delivery of email campaigns, through features such as deliverability tests, opt-in management, bounce handling, suppression lists, dedicated IP addresses, and delivery monitoring.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Role-based workflow & approvals

    Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Dashboards

    Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Automated sales alerts and tasks

    The software helps ensure that a sales person is notified of lead activity and can act on the information in a timely fashion.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Landing pages

    Users can create web pages that are customized to a particular email or campaign. Landing pages often include web forms which can capture visitor information and integrate it back into the MA software.

    Category average: 7.6

Unrivalled personalisation and automation

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bloomreach to power our communications to our customers, and to provide personalised experiences across multiple online and offline platforms. The main reason we chose to use Bloomreach was because we have an omnichannel business with multiple stores, plus an e-commerce website. Bloomreach allows us to use data from across multiple channels to power customer journeys, ensuring that our customers get a seamless experience no matter which channel they choose to shop in.

Pros

  • Ingests data from multiple online and offline sources
  • Makes it easy to create complex customer journeys using custom data related to your business
  • Enables deep personalisation of communications to communicate effectively

Cons

  • Improve introduction to Bloomreach-specific terminology such as running aggregates. These are really powerful but can be difficult to understand
  • Introduce more options for report exporting - it would be good to be able to schedule reports to send to different email addresses

Return on Investment

  • Our CRM campaigns as a whole have gone from accounting for only around 1% of online revenue, to around 6% of online revenue since we've used Bloomreach
  • Our price drop campaign became our 2nd biggest revenue generating programme, despite having the lowest number of sends.

Alternatives Considered

Acoustic Campaign, Dotdigital and Intuit Mailchimp

Other Software Used

BigCommerce, Shopify

Great dynamic content repository.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Bloomreach Content / XM 16 as of now. The platform is the core of the organization to store the content that is exposed to our end users. The challenges faced were mainly: internationalization, performance, and usability. Internationalization has been the most appreciated win as our contributors have a content system that easily makes content available in many languages. Also making use of things like translation plugins which we customized taking advantage of the smart translation plugin design already in place. Performance is also really good as we followed the guidelines and the advice from Bloomreach support. The usability is great in every aspect from our contributors to our end-users.

Pros

  • Extension points make easy to implement customer requirements.
  • Support team is awesome. The most helpful team I've worked with when calling for help.
  • Maintenance.
  • Scalability. Existings plugins, the possibility to extend them and to even customize them in edge cases

Cons

  • Lucene indexing phase, when starting from scratch, can take a really long time if the content quantity is large.
  • Apache Wicket makes debugging errors a nightmare on occasion in the frontend.
  • A solution to create document types that are complex and maintainable.

Return on Investment

  • End-user content feedback is really good.
  • Content contributors' lives are easier with additional plugins.

Other Software Used

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon EventBridge, GitHub

Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud ROCKS!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Thanks to Bloomreach we know how to automate a lot of things in our company that took too much time before. During the main COVID season, Bloomreach saved us time and money by contacting our customers regarding their purchases or behavior. Also, Bloomreach helped us with marketing investments. Specific reporting, that cannot be made in other analytics, helped us with analyzing specific problems that bothered us.

Pros

  • Reporting
  • AI - Recommendation engines
  • E-mail Marketing
  • Creating scenarios based on behaviour
  • CRM with very good scope on customers

Cons

  • UI/UX
  • Product request - if there is a lot of people that will welcome new changes - that would be awesome to implement it.
  • catalog improvements
  • More API options
  • Easy mobile SDK setting up
  • Cleaning policy/duplication alerts etc.

Return on Investment

  • Increased revenue
  • Higher CLV
  • Upsell of side products

Alternatives Considered

Meiro CDP, Agillic, Ecomail, LeadHub CRM, Beefree and HubSpot Marketing Hub

Usability

Bloomreach - One tool rules them all.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bloomreach is essential for our omnichannel strategy across all available channels. We utilize Bloomreach for omnichannel communication across all available channels. At the same time, it helps us evaluate the success and performance of our campaigns. Bloomreach is also a great asset when it comes to creating and defining audiences for Meta Ads, thanks to its seamless and simple integration.

Pros

  • Easy work with catalogs for personalization.
  • Easy work with customer attributes.
  • System for data aggregation and calculation of various metrics in the customer lifecycle.

Cons

  • The system is designed predominantly for e-commerce. With other businesses, it is sometimes necessary to create a custom solution or a workaround.

Return on Investment

  • Personalized campaigns easily have 2-3x greater conversion.
  • Correct segmentation can save the health of the database and better match client expectations.
  • The Engagement Score and OST are great tools for better and higher-quality mailings.

Review of Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization to build and manage email campaigns and scenarios that help us deliver more personalized customer experiences. It addresses the challenge of sending generic communications enabling us to segment our audiences and tailor messages to their behavior and preferences. This improves engagement, strengthens customer relationships, and supports our overall marketing strategy.

Pros

  • Advanced segmentation that makes it easy to target customers based on behavior and preferences
  • Automated scenarios that deliver timely and relevant communications
  • Strong analytics and reporting tools that provide clear insights into campaign performance

Cons

  • The user interface can sometimes feel complex
  • More flexibility in template design
  • Faster loading speeds when working with large assets and multiple scenarios

Return on Investment

  • Improved conversion rates
  • increased revenue
  • better roi

Alternatives Considered

monday CRM