Adobe Target vs. Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Target
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Test and Target is an A/B, multi-variate testing platform which Adobe acquired as part of the Omniture platform in 2009. It is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It offers tight integration with Adobe analytics and content management products.N/A
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.6 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
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Adobe Target
Chose Adobe Target
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This tools are very important to create a new visual experience to Adobe Target.
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We have integration and use cases for both solutions, personalization at Marketo and use cases based on data from adobe analytics
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I still use Optimizely as it helps with project managing. We have been using that for quite sometime and we have recently started using Adobe Target Platform and are testing both of them to see which one would work the best for us. In terms of reporting Adobe Target has been …
Chose Adobe Target
Ease of use, integration with Analytics eliminated any waiting periods. Easier to implement and has more features in one place.
Chose Adobe Target
For us, the decision was very straightforward. We chose to invest in the Adobe stack and utilize tools that are developed to integrate together and complement each other. Ex: Adobe Target 'A4T' integration within Adobe Analytics. Optimizely appears to be a great tool, but …
Chose Adobe Target
Google Optimize - Way better than Adobe, even the free version. It automatically work with Google Analytics, and tracks revenue out of the box. Fantastic. Use this.

Optimizely - As a paid service, this is another good option. Tracks revenue out of the box, good heatmapping, most …
Chose Adobe Target
Previously, we had the opportunity to work with some similar services and to be honest we had a disastrous experience because they were not what we were looking for, but since Adobe Target was implemented it has proven to be a highly professional service for our company.
Chose Adobe Target
In my personal opinion, Optimizely is a clear choice here while Google Optimize is for the low-budget minded decision-makers and Evergage for the COE more geared toward personalization; however, in our case we were already locked into using Target prior to my arrival. I don't …
Chose Adobe Target
I have used Optimizely for A/B testing. Optimizely makes it easier to set up almost any type of testing experiment. Optimizely is also strongly recommended for a limited number of users and when you want to optimize the cost. Optimizely was selected over Adobe Target since the …
Chose Adobe Target
I have not used another product like Adobe Target.
Chose Adobe Target
We seriously considered another software but because we use so many other Adobe products this made the most sense for us. If you are not dependent on other Adobe software and are a smaller company, in my opinion, Target may not be the best fit.
Chose Adobe Target
Target has far superior functionality, it integrates with Adobe Analytics and is easy to build tests.
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It fits on top of our comprehensive data stack
Chose Adobe Target
Many of the same features, but Adobe Test and Target was much more expensive.
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Usability and implementation is harder with other products than with Test and Target.
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Maxymiser,Monetate,Optimizely
Chose Adobe Target
We have looked at Optimizely but at this point are sticking with Test & Target. We like the integration it has with our Analytics tools such as Ad Hoc and SiteCatalyst. Also, we feel that Adobe has some interesting products that we would like to dig into in the future such as …
Chose Adobe Target
I have used Google Analytics on my personal website but I can't compare it with Test and Target, because Google Analytics is free which will do less than what Adobe Test and Target does.
Chose Adobe Target
While my organization has been using Adobe Test & Target, I have had the chance to evaluate Optimizely, another tool that allows for multivariate testing with a smooth interface. The reason I like to stick with Adobe Test & Target is its ability to interface and interact with …
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization is doing a lot of great work with GenAI and ML Model development which is something very special in a CDP offering. It also does marketing automation and A/b testing which lot of vendors have their own instead of having all …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
I've selected Bloomreach cause it has Omnichannel orchestration and CDP in one.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
The combination of af Marketing Automation tool and a Customer Data Platform in one was a great reason for choosing Bloomreach instead of splitting these into separate systems.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Stand out topics:
- Ease of use
- Multi-market support
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach is robust product that benefits from steady investment and some good experience. It lacks some of the latest automations and has a cost structure that is hard to manage and monitor. It is not user friendly but does accomplish most of the tasks we want to complete …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Having used Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud for the last 3 years, I can confidently say that it is the most sophisticated platform in my experience. The unifying of customer data in the platform has been an immeasurable strength in our Marketing arsenal. The support …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud is a great tool if you're in the B2C business and has a lot of different functionality to target a bigger database.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
From a functionality perspective, Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud is on par or better than both alternatives at a much better price level.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Google Analytics
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
The ease of use of Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud and the scalability far exeeds that of Selligent. Selligent did have a number of things i did like such as a multilanguage dropdown which made it easy to switch between countries and lables. However teaching a new recruit …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
The editing options are less but this restriction makes sure u get the most reliable data sources for your campaigns. It is also faster to build flows and calculate audiences.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
The flexibility in Bloomreach can't be beaten by the other platforms. The customer service and the software
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach definitely has a lot more options and functionalities
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
At the time we changed the solution Bloomreach was much more far in the integration part and all other communication channels were added into the one scenerio builder using unique logic for filtering customers in order to segment them for particular campaigns.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach allows for a far more detailed analysis of customer data than the other platforms compared to. The other platforms do provide far more out-of-the-box than Bloomreach, but would not allow us to bring the analytics function of the business in-house as Bloomreach has.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud is probably most unique in its lightweight yet robust architecture. Its scenarios, even ones relying on webhooks and complex logic, run really quickly as well as reliably. Compared to Salesforce Marketing cloud, it offers a more modular …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Airship is very new and limited in it's capabilites.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach is by far the most complex tool I have worked on, and offers a complete set in one place.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Compared to Adobe Campaign, Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud is a much more modern tool more in line with the latest technologies. It does have a much narrower toolset though, but what limits it in one way allows it to concentrate and deliver very good results. Further to …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
It was not a decision by me, but more like from the management and team leads.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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. …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach is a really easy to use platform compared to other CRM systems and allow faster integration to the other data sources. It allowed deduping services and the ammonization feature for data protection is really easy to set up which fields contain personal information and …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
In my opinion, Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud is by far much better than other platform I've used before, the level of customisation you can do within the platform both from a marketing point of view but also from an analytics point of view is incredible.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Better in almost every aspect.
Only benchmark I'd consider are the calendar views and priority queue of Optimove.
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Features
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Testing and Experimentation
Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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a/b experiment testing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Split URL testing8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multivariate testing9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-page/funnel testing8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-browser testing8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app testing8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Test significance7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual / WYSIWYG editor8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced code editor8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Page surveys9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visitor recordings8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Preview mode9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Test duration calculator9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment scheduler9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment workflow and approval7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic experiment activation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Client-side tests9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Server-side tests8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mutually exclusive tests7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
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Adobe Target
8.5
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0% below category average
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Standard visitor segmentation8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Traffic allocation control8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
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Adobe Target
9.0
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7% above category average
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Heatmap tool9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form fill analysis9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test reporting9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Results segmentation8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
CSV export9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiments results dashboard8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Email & Online Marketing
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Adobe Target
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.9
Ratings
4% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
List management00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.2
Ratings
5% above category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Calendaring00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Social profile integration00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Target
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.4
Ratings
1% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.0
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7% above category average
API00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Third-party software integrations00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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9.8
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Likelihood to Renew
6.3
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9.1
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Usability
8.5
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8.6
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Availability
6.1
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8.1
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Performance
8.0
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7.4
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Support Rating
3.5
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9.1
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In-Person Training
8.1
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8.4
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Online Training
6.1
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9.1
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Implementation Rating
7.2
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7.2
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Configurability
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8.6
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Ease of integration
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8.8
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Product Scalability
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8.2
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Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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7.9
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
We recommend this application because it allows us to segment and track the traffic of our domain under an analysis of their behavior, ranging from counting the number of clicks they make on a single element to the most complete action within our page in real time.
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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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Pros
  • Because the software is established there is lots of online help available and most of the bugs have been worked out
  • Adobe has a vast supply of resources if your pockets are deep enough.
  • The dashboard is easy to follow and is getting more user-friendly. You no longer have to be an HTML wizard to implement changes.
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  • All in one. We have experience working with other CDP/Marketing suites and it is really difficult to connect their different modules. Bloomreach Engagement has been built to be a single product which makes everything easy to use
  • Fast and real-time. Other platforms struggle with getting real-time volumes or segmenting based on real-time events, that is not the case with Bloomreach Engagement
  • GCP partnership. Being deployed over GCP and having BigQuery as raw data export makes really easy to expand and connect with existing stacks
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Cons
  • There should be some more clarity around what makes a test significant. While this can be decided by the client themselves, some direction from the tool would be helpful.
  • Also, if there was an easier way to organize campaigns and search for them it would be helpful. Right now there is just a long list of campaigns and you have to rely on search to find a specific campaign. What if you don't know the name of the test?
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  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Once you get started with your testing program, you realize that it is necessary to continue. You must keep optimizing in order to remain a vital competitor in today's marketing world. Even if you're not using Test & Target or any other user experience testing software, you ought to be performing comparison tests on your own, simply by routing your audience to different experiences and quantifying the aggregate of the results.
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So far, Hippo is our ideal tool given its use of open standards which helps us to have a clear overview of what's coming next in the future Hippo releases. We are very confident in the future-readiness of the product
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Usability
The recent UI update is a complete mess. It is difficult to navigate and find features that previously existed. The reactiveness of the page depending on window size is also ridiculous and it is absurd that depending on how large your window is, entire columns of functions will disappear with no indication that they are missing. The usability of the tool has fallen off a cliff.
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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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Reliability and Availability
i don't think we use the full functionalities of the tool, but to use the full functions, it's almost impossible (Too hard)
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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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Performance
The bottleneck is never the software program
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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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Support Rating
On several occasions, we have had the need to ask for help from the Adobe Target support team, and I must say that they have provided us with an excellent experience, as they take care of solving the problems quickly and with high precision
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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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In-Person Training
The instructor that came to train us was awesome and this training was very useful. I would recommend it for anyone who is going to be using this software. I only mark it lower because it is an added expense to an already expensive product, and a lot of the training covered the "Target" portion of the software (which again, we didn't use)
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The Training was awesome
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Online Training
The training was very easy to understand, however it would have been more useful to my development team than me. It was also primarily over-the-phone, which is never as easy to follow as in-person. We ended up scheduling and paying for an in-person training session to supplement the online/phone training because it wasn't helpful enough.
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very informative and patient
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Implementation Rating
Implement using a global mBox on the page so you can change any and everything over the traditional method. Traditional method is good if you do not have technical web dev resources, do not know Javascript/jQuery, or you have money to blow on mBox calls. Global deployment reduces mBox calls and allows you to touch many parts of the page easily. A lot more customizable
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All the deployments were done on time
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Alternatives Considered
For us, the decision was very straightforward. We chose to invest in the Adobe stack and utilize tools that are developed to integrate together and complement each other. Ex: Adobe Target 'A4T' integration within Adobe Analytics. Optimizely appears to be a great tool, but for us aligning with the Adobe suite, ensuring that future product enhancements and tools would work well together was a very important key factor in our decision
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Having used Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud for the last 3 years, I can confidently say that it is the most sophisticated platform in my experience. The unifying of customer data in the platform has been an immeasurable strength in our Marketing arsenal. The support received from the Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud support team is also superior to that of any platform I have used previously, often receiving replies and advice within one hour of messaging.
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Scalability
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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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Return on Investment
  • This is something we've been working to improve on, as far as how we're calculating and tracking this, but Target has had a substantial ROI on our business.
  • I will say specific to our efforts, we could have probably done similar work if not the same work using a different testing tool (Optimizely for example), but Target has been good for us.
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  • 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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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