Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud vs. Joomla!

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Bloomreach personalizes the e-commerce experience. Its data engine unifies real-time customer and product data so businesses understand what customers really want. By connecting that understanding to every channel, the e-commerce experience becomes limitless — reflecting a changing customer as they shop. Amplified by the speed and scale of Loomi, Bloomreach's AI for e-commerce, this creates endless new paths to purchase. Bloomreach products include:N/A
Joomla
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A
Pricing
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudJoomla!
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudJoomla
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBloomreach pricing is quote-based.
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Community Pulse
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudJoomla!
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudJoomla!
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.5
53 Ratings
4% below category average
Joomla!
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Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor7.748 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.749 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.448 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages6.722 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing7.851 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization7.341 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting7.652 Ratings00 Ratings
List management7.141 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.135 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.4
40 Ratings
4% below category average
Joomla!
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Ratings
Lead nurturing automation8.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading6.933 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management7.436 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.1
34 Ratings
7% below category average
Joomla!
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Ratings
Calendaring7.132 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.123 Ratings00 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.2
29 Ratings
4% below category average
Joomla!
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Ratings
Social sharing and campaigns7.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration6.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.4
53 Ratings
1% below category average
Joomla!
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Ratings
Dashboards7.553 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports7.150 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.550 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.6
80 Ratings
0% above category average
Joomla!
6.5
41 Ratings
17% below category average
API7.875 Ratings7.039 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals6.936 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability7.543 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Third-party software integrations7.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.140 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
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Ratings
Joomla!
7.0
44 Ratings
14% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.044 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
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Ratings
Joomla!
7.2
47 Ratings
5% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings6.046 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.044 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.443 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.045 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings9.043 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.043 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings6.143 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings6.039 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Joomla!
6.6
45 Ratings
11% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings8.044 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.044 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings4.142 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.045 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings6.143 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(144 ratings)
6.1
(68 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(7 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(54 ratings)
9.9
(7 ratings)
Availability
8.5
(14 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.4
(13 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(107 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.8
(4 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(14 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
Bloomreach
Bloomreach has great support. So when you feel a bit lost or stuck on a problem, there is always somebody to help you out with your problem. Not just in a chat, but also on zoom call where you can explain or show your problem. Also they always check if the problem is solved the other day and if everything is working as I need.
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The Joomla Project
It seems with the release of Joomla! 4 that the weak areas have all been covered. Its always been good for the mid-level small to large business, the blogging was WP, and the large-scale enterprise was probably bespoke. But the new interface is so simple it seems pointless using WP when Joomla! is as easy and can then grow as big as you like. The Workflows feature which allows you to set up work pipelines easily is going to be a boom to any larger enterprise sites. Couples with the new API which I got to see at one of their user groups, is amazing. They were creating articles on one site then another site was taking the feed directly for just certain categories. Really blows your mind what you could do with that and the new workflows.
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Pros
Bloomreach
  • 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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The Joomla Project
  • We use Joomla to build our websites and web applications because of its incredible intuitiveness and tools to make everything more manageable.
  • Its working environment is quite comfortable for my development team, and its web design resources significantly speed up our work when carrying out web development projects.
  • It allows you to use blocks to create and visually manage websites and divide them into different categories without programming knowledge.
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Cons
Bloomreach
  • 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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The Joomla Project
  • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
  • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
  • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
  • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
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Likelihood to Renew
Bloomreach
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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The Joomla Project
I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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Usability
Bloomreach
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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The Joomla Project
Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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Reliability and Availability
Bloomreach
99% of the time the site is available for when we need to use. With any cloud based software there will be occasion that there is an outage but this is communicated effectively and dealt with quickly. This has never got in the way of what we need to do in our day to day work and wouldn't be thought of as a problem
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The Joomla Project
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Performance
Bloomreach
The search API is very fast (150ms), even considering we have nearly 2 million products in our catalog. The console pages where you do your configuration, add ranking rules and synonyms are sometimes a bit slower to load, but your customer would not notice any of that. The reports pages are also not the fastest, but definitely okay
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The Joomla Project
Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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Support Rating
Bloomreach
When I get through to support they are absolutely amazing but I think sometimes the wait can be too long. From experience I also know HubSpot and Dotdigital allow for live calls or call-backs which gives you that extra layer of support and satisfaction. That alone would have taken this score to a 9.
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The Joomla Project
Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The team was really helpful in explaining
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The Joomla Project
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Online Training
Bloomreach
It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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The Joomla Project
It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
None it went smoothly
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The Joomla Project
Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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Alternatives Considered
Bloomreach
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 therefore remove the data when a customer request it.
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The Joomla Project
We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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Scalability
Bloomreach
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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The Joomla Project
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Return on Investment
Bloomreach
  • 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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The Joomla Project
  • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
  • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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ScreenShots

Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of Retention provides insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of Web layers with A/B testingScreenshot of Drag and drop campaign editorScreenshot of WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templatesScreenshot of CRM with 360° customer behaviour history