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Braze vs Netcore Customer Engagement Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Braze
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Marketing and Advertising (3rd)
Netcore Customer Engagement...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Marketing Automation (19th), Customer Data Platforms (CDP) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Braze and Netcore Customer Engagement Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Braze is designed for Mobile Marketing and Advertising and holds a mindshare of 11.2%, down 27.0% compared to last year.
Netcore Customer Engagement Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Marketing Automation, holds 1.5% mindshare, down 2.4% since last year.
Mobile Marketing and Advertising Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Braze11.2%
Leanplum9.9%
CleverTap8.6%
Other70.3%
Mobile Marketing and Advertising
Marketing Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Netcore Customer Engagement Platform1.5%
Salesforce Marketing Cloud12.3%
Marketo10.4%
Other75.8%
Marketing Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Steven Pearson - PeerSpot reviewer
CRM Manager at Monument Bank
Unified customer profiles have powered automated journeys and precise data driven campaigns
I found the platform excellent for having unified customer profiles, which I believe is one of the biggest selling points of Braze because it allows you to know your customer in a single profile card. The ease with which you can add new attributes and events and neatly package values underneath is impressive. In banking, we pushed clients towards different types of banking rates and tiers, which has me always wanting to return, leading to a lot of qualifications and certificates because I enjoy the platform so much and want to engage with it further down my career. Braze's best features, for me, are the unified profile cards, along with the ease of connecting different channels, including email as a focus, plus push notifications and extending that to things to in-app messages, content cards, and SMS. That connection is felt immediately upon onboarding with Braze, as the ease of use and the sophisticated UI design allows marketers or automation specialists such as me to do amazing things quickly and intuitively. Braze's analytics side is another interesting part, as it allows you to slice campaigns and different tests that you were running very easily, unlike other platforms I have used, such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, which often requires workarounds for information. With Braze, the friendly UI enables you to download large volumes of data about your customers and understand campaign performance and why people reacted as they did. Braze's campaign feature is also essential for experts using automation or large-scale segmentation, and the campaign execution side is very intuitive, allowing for slick A/B testing and accurate conversion goal setup.
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New Product Introduction Manager at Buffalo Wild Wings - Fralich, Inc.
Improves our marketing efficiency in a consolidated platform, with features such as behavior-based email triggers
Interface and design consistency are my two significant cons for this platform. Like most, once you know the platform and its interface, you can be very successful. There is no difference here except that the design process between creating emails, pages, and forms all have their unique process. I believe it would improve user efficiency if the page and email creator, for instance, had a standard procedure and the same layout of tools. The platform has a lot of features with more coming, so you have to know where all the pieces are between the settings, marketing, and sales menu layout.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Braze is an excellent tool that covers my main use case."
"Braze's best features, for me, are the unified profile cards, along with the ease of connecting different channels, including email as a focus, plus push notifications and extending that to things to in-app messages, content cards, and SMS."
"We can trigger emails and actions based on their behaviors, which is very beneficial."
"With this product, we are able to do so much more with our marketing."
"We got a 30% increase in email open rates due to relevant targeting, 30% increase in overall leads, 12-15 man-hours savings per week due to automation."
 

Cons

"Braze could improve the data analysis capabilities."
"Interface and design consistency are my two significant cons for this platform."
"Interface and design consistency are my two significant cons for this platform."
"Customer service is good, but the Netcore Smartech team should strive for improving it further. EMM customer service was far better than Smartech customer service as Smartech needs better coordination between Netcore back end teams, which needs to be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Based on the number of contacts we have, Smartech is more cost-effective than other solutions."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Braze?
Overall, the pricing structure and licensing for Braze were positive, as it is cheaper than some competitors while providing greater value. There was some back and forth around legal sign-off regar...
What needs improvement with Braze?
I think Braze could probably be improved by having more access options for users who have previously engaged with the platform to keep them invested and wanting to return. I do not have too much to...
What is your primary use case for Braze?
My main use case for Braze is automation, as I have always been interested in automation. Braze was the tool we used to send customer lifecycle journeys, trigger and run one-off campaign sends, mos...
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Netcore Smartech, Smartech
 

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Sample Customers

1-800flowers.com, Delivery Heroes, Dominoe's Pizza, Epix, Ibotta, iHeartMedia, Jet, Opera, Tinder, Urban Outfitters
Goair, Koovs.com, Oxigen Wallet, SBI MF