Great customer engagement platform with room to still scale
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Braze as the main tool for customer comms and how we approach our CRM for both all types of customer comms - marketing / transactional, desktop / mobile etc. Braze is the tool that powers it all, the central customer engagement platform. At a high level, Braze enables us to move from campaign-led CRM to a product-led, lifecycle-driven engagement model, where communication is triggered by real customer behaviour rather than fixed schedules.
Pros
- Channel orchestration
- Data and Segmentation
- UI and simplicity of use
Cons
- Analytics and reporting are still built mostly for ecommerce biz models
- Canvases (journey orchestration) have limitations when you're trying to build super complex journeys
Likelihood to Recommend
Braze is particularly well suited for real-time, behaviour-driven customer engagement, but there are scenarios where other tools or setups may be more appropriate, mostly depending on the use case and organisational maturity.Braze is great when your organisation and CRM team have reached a certain level of maturity and you're seriously thinking about lifecycle, event-based comms, multi-channel orchestration and personalisation at scale etc. If you're still sending just emails and mostly thinking about ad-hoc campaigns, you're better off using something simpler and cheaper. Generally, if you're at the very beginning think or something like MailChimp, then move to something like Klavyo and ultimately land on Braze if you're serious about your CRM / Retention comms.
