Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud vs. Salesforce Experience Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Score 8.3 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
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A
Pricing
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudSalesforce Experience Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudSalesforce Experience Cloud
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 CloudSalesforce Experience Cloud
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudSalesforce Experience Cloud
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.5
50 Ratings
4% below category average
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor7.745 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.846 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.545 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages6.920 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing7.848 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization7.339 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting7.749 Ratings00 Ratings
List management7.039 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.4
37 Ratings
4% below category average
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Lead nurturing automation8.131 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading7.131 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks6.814 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
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
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
28 Ratings
4% below category average
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Social sharing and campaigns7.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration6.815 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.4
50 Ratings
1% below category average
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Dashboards7.550 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports7.248 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.548 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
7.6
77 Ratings
0% above category average
Salesforce Experience Cloud
10.0
1 Ratings
21% above category average
API7.872 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals6.936 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability7.441 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 integrations7.324 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Salesforce Experience Cloud
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Salesforce Experience Cloud
9.3
1 Ratings
20% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Salesforce Experience Cloud
8.6
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Salesforce Experience Cloud
8.0
1 Ratings
10% below category average
Conversion tracking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Test reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Funnel Analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
User Segmentation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Digital Experience Platform
Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Product A and Product B
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
Salesforce Experience Cloud
10.0
1 Ratings
3% above category average
Campaign management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Cloud enablement00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Content aggregation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Content classification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multi-channel content personalization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Customer data analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
DXP Third-Party Integrations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multi-website management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Digital asset management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Editorial workflows and task management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudSalesforce Experience Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(141 ratings)
9.9
(52 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(54 ratings)
9.4
(4 ratings)
Availability
8.5
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.4
(13 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(104 ratings)
7.7
(17 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.7
(2 ratings)
9.4
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudSalesforce Experience Cloud
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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Salesforce
Salesforce Experience Cloud is well-suited for organizations that have clients who periodically or routinely need to access historical data or documents. The product also offers an exceptionally effective tool to engage with customers around support/service issues and the entire Case management functionality built into the Salesforce platform. The product might be less well-suited in environments where there is exceptionally high staff turnover within customer accounts, or where there is a substantial lack of very basic computer skills.
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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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Salesforce
  • Complete integration with the Salesforce ecosystem. Data displayed in your Community portal reflects records from a Sales Cloud organization
  • Highly customizable. A Community Cloud portal can be totally customized both visually and with different funcionalities with little to no coding skills required
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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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Salesforce
  • The documentation for implementing Experience Cloud can be a bit confusing as their rebranding hasn't made it's way into all articles, resulting in different terminology being used to refer to the same thing
  • Some things are not as intuitive regarding their customizability, so there's a bit of a learning curve (i.e. Lightning apps can't be used to customize layouts in Experience Cloud)
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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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Salesforce
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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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Salesforce
Usability is pretty streamlined, especially if you're familiar with other Salesforce products, but even if not, take it from me, as I just entered the technological space about two years ago, that this product is pretty simple to learn. You don't have to jump in with your head underwater. Small wins and learnings along the way are what foster long-term understandings and enable your evolution alongside the product. I definitely recommend Salesforce Trailhead along with it
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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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
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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Salesforce
It's delivered on our original requirements and we've found ways to grow its usage. We continue to build on our original success and we can report our data out to leadership to show a true return on investment which is great for growing support and expanding uses for the system.
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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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Salesforce
We have weekly calls with our Salesforce reps. They bring new ideas to the table and help with taxonomy builds. They have also answered many questions and connected us to the right people for us to grow our knowledge and utilization of the platform. They are a good partner overall in comparison.
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The team was really helpful in explaining
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Bloomreach
It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
None it went smoothly
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Salesforce
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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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Salesforce
I have used Datatel/Colleague/Recruiter before. There were issues because only one person at the institution was able to have the student's record open at a time. This was problematic when collaboration between departments was necessary especially in the case of admissions, financial aid, and registration. We also had to do our work and then log out before asking a questions of another department. Sometimes simultaneous use was necessary. However, this was years ago and they may have since updated the program.
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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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
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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Salesforce
  • Improved online admission application completion rates from mid-60%s to mid-80%s.
  • Positive user experience from start-to-finish to leverage one data system for all prospective student data
  • Fewer data integrations transforming and loading sensitive student data by leveraging Salesforce Community Cloud to access already existing data
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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