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What is Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization?

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: 8.3

  • 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: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Dashboards

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

    Category average: 7.6

  • 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: 8.2

  • 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

No blooming campaigns without Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At Notino we use Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud every day for almost everything, well at least CRM related everything. For segmentations, scenarios, reporting, customer properties and event tracking. Mostly everything (well okay about 80%) I need for my work I find at Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud. It helps us track customer activities on web, how they react on our emails or PNS or SMS, even weblayers. I can target very precisely every campaign. I can even make dynamic content thanks to jinja programing in email webhooks. Or make multichannel campaigns or multilevel campaigns that can be active for months (or even years) and can target new and new audiences and then track the results of the campaign.

Pros

  • Segmentation
  • Scenarios
  • Customer profile

Cons

  • Loomi
  • Multilevel reporting

Return on Investment

  • YoY over 5% increase
  • 10% better conversion rate with multichannel campaigns
  • 40% conversion rate via Facebook targeting in messenger

Alternatives Considered

Pipeline CRM

Other Software Used

Google Analytics

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

Orchestrating made easy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Orchestrating email, SMS and other channel communications.Designing campaigns, customer journeys in advance. Creating analytical dashboards for Managers and Integrators. We created a unified customer view with dozens of back end integrations. The system is responsible for both marketing campaigns, their evaluation and to control Sales calls based on the Customer history.

Pros

  • Their low-code jinja solution for personalization.
  • The well documented REST API endpoints.
  • The ease of sharing the definitions, customer profiles with coworkers.
  • Handling several projects under one account.

Cons

  • More flexibility for catalogs. To be able to restructure the catalogs after they are created.
  • It is not properly supported in the system to work with list profile attributes (missing functions like: add to list, remove from list).
  • The lack of support for integrating two projects under the same account.

Return on Investment

  • Personalization became 10 times less expensive.
  • Setting up A/B testing became half as time consuming.

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Apache Kafka