Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud vs. Google Analytics

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
Google Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Google Analytics is perhaps the best-known web analytics product and, as a free product, it has massive adoption. Although it lacks some enterprise-level features compared to its competitors in the space, the launch of the paid Google Analytics Premium edition seems likely to close the gap.
$0
per month
Pricing
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudGoogle Analytics
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Google Analytics 360
150,000
per year
Google Analytics
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudGoogle Analytics
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
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 CloudGoogle Analytics
Considered Both Products
Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
First thing is the ease of using the platform. Although there are courses on how to use the platform, even a person who has never taken the course could do some basic things on the platform, such as identifying a customer and checking their entire history with the company. With …
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Bloomreach, has an easier interface to use. very self explanatory and easy to understand. The tools themselves are easy to use with little to no training. Other platforms do not have this ease of use or provide the same standard in customer support that we have noticed from …
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
When it comes to these platforms, sometimes it would be super useful to have much more control over them. For example, with BigCommerce integration, we wanted to disable the cart_update event from that integration, and we came up with supper difficult and not common for …
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Bloomreach stacks very well against these platforms especially as the platform includes a good range of services - email scenarios and building, website experiments, and conditional funneling - which interconnect well. This makes the platform 360 very suited for modern, agile …
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Bloomreach Exponea enables better work with data in emailing scenarios and the UX/UI is more friendly.
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
I found it beneficial because it is ideal to assist us to reach our business goals, and it's simple to construct highly focused, trigger-based automation with this. Bloomreach Experience platform's segmentation and analytics capabilities are extremely powerful. Ease of Tracking …
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Way better control over how data are tracked, stored and used. We have never met any limitations regarding our campaign creativity vs Bloomreach capabilities.
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Single, connected solution. Support app and mobile communications out the box. Built-in analysis and analytics.
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
When I started to work in the company we already decided to use Bloomreach Engagement.
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
I have described the benefits in section about positive impressions / features. There's nothing to add - they are the reason why we use with Bloomreach Engagement and don't consider a change.
Chose Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud
Bloomreach Engagement insights you reveal. No other tools has this out of the box integration of analytics and campaings.
Google Analytics

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudGoogle Analytics
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
Google Analytics
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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
Google Analytics
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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
Google Analytics
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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
Google Analytics
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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
Google Analytics
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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
Google Analytics
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Ratings
API7.875 Ratings00 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
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User Ratings
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudGoogle Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(144 ratings)
9.0
(183 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(7 ratings)
9.0
(51 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(54 ratings)
9.9
(8 ratings)
Availability
8.5
(14 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Performance
8.4
(13 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(107 ratings)
7.0
(42 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.8
(4 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(2 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.7
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(14 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.7
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bloomreach Commerce Experience CloudGoogle Analytics
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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Google
Google Analytics is particularly well suited for tracking and analyzing customer behavior on a grocery e-commerce platform. It provides a wealth of information about customer behavior, including what products are most popular, what pages are visited the most, and where customers are coming from. This information can help the platform optimize its website for better customer engagement and conversion rates. However, Google Analytics may not be the best tool for more advanced, granular analysis of customer behavior, such as tracking individual customer journeys or understanding customer motivations. In these cases, it may be more appropriate to use additional tools or solutions that provide deeper insights into customer behavior.
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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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Google
  • Multiple reports to see website use and behavior
  • Allows you to customize reports with days, weeks, months, and years
  • You can build out a dashboard to easily view stats from multiple websites in one place
  • You can share analytics reports via the dashboard, automatically emailed PDFs or in other formats
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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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Google
  • Data sampling is somewhat inaccurate on the free tier - this is addressed in premium but is expensive.
  • Some of the UI is very similar in naming when presenting different data, some in-situ information might be useful.
  • Gotchas around filtering and data validation.
  • Implementation can be tricky, it can take a lot of time and expertise to get a full, accurate picture of your metrics.
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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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Google
We will continue to use Google Analytics for several reasons. It is free, which is a huge selling point. It houses all of our ecommerce stores' data, and though it can't account for refunds or fraud orders, gives us and our clients directional, real time information on individual and group store performance.
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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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Google
Google Analytics provides a wealth of data, down to minute levels. That is it's greatest detriment: find the right information when you need it can be a cumbersome task. You are able to create shortcuts, however, so it can mitigate some of this problem. Google is continually refining Analytics, so I do not doubt there will be improvements
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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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Google
We all know Google is at top when it comes to availability. We have never faced any such instances where I can suggest otherwise. All you need is a Google account, a device and internet connection to use this super powerful tool for reporting and visualising your site data, traffic, events, etc. that too in real time.
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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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Google
This has been a catalyst for improving our site's traffic handling capabilities. We were able to identify exit% from our sites through it and we used recommendations to handle and implement the same in our sites. We have been increasing the usage of Google Analytics in our sites and never had any performance related issues if we used Analytics
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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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Google
The Google reps respond very quickly. However, sometimes they can overly call you to set up an apportionment. I'm very proficient and sometimes when I talk to reps, they give beginner tutorials and insights that are a waste of time. I wish Google would understand my level of expertise and assign me to a rep (long-term) that doesn't have to walk me through the basics.
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In-Person Training
Bloomreach
The team was really helpful in explaining
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Google
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Bloomreach
It gives clear overview in each and every concepts
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Google
love the product and training they provide for businesses of all sizes. The following list of links will help you get started with Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented by Google Analytics.
  1. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners – Mahalo’s how-to guide for beginners.
  2. A beginner’s guide to Google Analytics – A free eBook walking you through Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented.
  3. Getting to Know Your Google Analytics Dashboard – The title says it all! This is a brief post with one goal: to introduce you to the Google Analytics dashboard.
  4. Google Analytics for Beginners: How to Make the Most of Your Traffic Reports– This guide doesn’t cover setup, but it does a great job of helping you to better understand the data being presented.
  5. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 1: Setup – A video presentation that walks you through Google Analytics setup.
  6. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 2: Essential Stats – A video presentation that introduces you to some of the most important data being presented in Google Analytics.
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Implementation Rating
Bloomreach
None it went smoothly
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Google
I think my biggest take away from the Google Analytics implementation was that there needs to be a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it before you start. Originally the analytics were added to track visitors, but as we became more savvy with the product, we began adding more and more functionality, and defining guidelines as we went along. While not detrimental to our success, this lack of an overarching goal resulted in some minor setbacks in implementation and the collection of some messy data that is unusable.
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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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Google
I have not used Adobe Analytics as much, but I know they offer something called customer journey analytics, which we are evaluating now. I have used Semrush, and I find them much better than Google Analytics. I feel a fairly nontechnical person could learn Semrush in about a month. They also offer features like competitive analysis (on content, keywords, traffic, etc.), which is very useful. If you have to choose one among Semrush and Google Analytics, I would say go for Semrush.
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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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Google
Google Analytics is currently handling the reporting and tracking of near about 80 sites in our project. And I am not talking about the sites from different projects. They may have way more accounts than that. Never ever felt a performance issue from Google's end while generating or customising reports or tracking custom events or creating custom dimensions
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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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Google
  • It has helped us gain understanding of what is going on on our website.
  • It has helped us determine areas that need fixing (i.e. pages with extremely high bounce rates may need to be redone).
  • It has helped us understand our biggest avenues for bringing traffic to the website and business in general.
  • It has helped guide our website redesign.
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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