Braze vs. Goolara Symphonie

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Braze
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Braze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies.N/A
Goolara Symphonie
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Goolara Symphonie is an email marketing platform available through both on-premise and hosted deployment. It includes features such as visual editing, a one-stop dashboard, and customizable transactional messages.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Braze
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Ratings
Goolara Symphonie
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
Dynamic content00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
List management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
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Braze
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Goolara Symphonie
8.3
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8% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
8.8
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Support Rating
4.5
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User Testimonials
BrazeGoolara Symphonie
Likelihood to Recommend
Its really well suited to brands with a mobile app. And from what I can glean from the features my org isn't able to take advantage of, its best suited for: - B2C brands that use social media - ecommerce (i.e. CPG) Otherwise, I am not convinced it is the tool I would recommend for users that do not have a mobile app. You're not getting most of the value from it.
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Goolara comes with awesome features like A/B Splits, Dynamic Content, Triggered Email and more. The highlight is that Goolara provides all these enterprise-level email marketing features within an affordable price range. Goolara works well in data control like archiving, custom tables, dashboard controls and segmentation. There is another notable feature is "Fix After Sending". If you make a mistake while sending the email, Goolara will let you fix it even after you have started sending.
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Pros
  • Well looked after - Braze itself are always on hand to answer any questions and help us make our work better.
  • Great tool - We use a fair bit of Braze but there
  • are so many exciting features we're slowly incorporating, Braze is always building on what they have and this keeps us top of our game.
  • Fantastic learning - I have advanced quickly in my work in Braze due to their support and learning programs. This has been key for me.
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  • Advanced Email Features
  • Calendar Dashboard
  • Awesome Visual editor
  • Triggered Email
  • Dynamic Content
  • Transactional Email
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Cons
  • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
  • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
  • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
  • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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  • Need more Flexible Plans
  • Should add a Demo Page on the home page
  • More templates are always welcome
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Likelihood to Renew
We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
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Usability
It is an easy-to-understand platform, thanks to its design and accessibility. You can, for example, easily find any users and their data, check exact volumes of segments, follow the history of messages sent, and create reports. We can connect Braze with other platforms for analysis or email design (Snowflake, Hightouch, Stripo...).
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Support Rating
Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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Alternatives Considered
Braze has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to Bloomreach and Hubspot. Personally I prefer Bloomreach for lifecycle journey and orchestration however I've felt integration and scaling to be more straightforward with Braze. Other platforms have been reviewed but for value for money at scale and quality of platform, Braze came out as the chosen one.
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We tried both MailChimp and SendPulse. SendPulse should improve the autocomplete fields and it comes with fewer templates. MailChimp lacks in more integration with other programs and software. Once you create a template on MailChimp, it seems difficult to edit. Goolara works perfectly with auto-responders, has an advanced bounce tracking system, mailing frequency limits, and more. I'm sure you won't regret once you are ready to set with Goolara.
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Return on Investment
  • We saved a couple of million by switching from Salesforce to Braze.
  • We increased our engagement for a limited-time promo by 33% by simply running a 4-variant subject line test.
  • We managed to reduce our unsubscribe volume by 18% by excluding dormant users.
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  • All in One Email tool. We won't need another tool for the same functionalities.
  • Powerful built-in visual editors help us to work in the same place without navigation to other pages.
  • Calendar Dashboard lets us see all future work at a glance.
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