DNN Platform vs. HCL Digital Experience

Well suited to large enterprise website or web application developments. Less well suited to smaller site which would be better catered for by something like Wordpress.

Incentivized

IBM Web Content Manager is well suited for intranet employee portals, websites which drive extensive marketing content, and e-commerce sites to provide product images and details. It cannot be used a document management system to store large volumes of data as it's purely a web content management system.

Incentivized

• The core modules provide all of the basic content management functionality. You can drag and drop a Blog, Chat, Events, Gallery or versitile Text HTML module onto any page. Once you set a few properties you are up and running. And many of them provide a means of skinning them to match the look and feel of your website design.
• If the core modules don't meet your specific needs you can purchase additional modules from third party vendors. If you have some programming experience, you can even create your own custom modules. Christoc's DotNetNuke Module and Theme Development Template makes it easy to get started.
• One of the best things about DNN is that the page navigation and user management is already built in. It is complete with friendly URL rewriting and SEO features. DNN authentication can be integrated with Facebook, Google and other authentication providers.

Incentivized

• Well designed web content management system with clearly defined relationships between the various web content objects such as sites, site areas, authoring templates, presentation templates, library resources, components, web content objects, etc.
• Can create robust content creation and publishing workflows with workflow stages and workflow actions
• Web Content can be rendered on multiple devices and browsers in a responsive and adaptive manner.

Incentivized

• Missing a tool to test for compliance (built in)
• All module developers should be held to a standard before being allowed to sell in the dnn store
• Confusion between dnn and evoq creates a lot of headaches for us

Incentivized

• Search is not working well. We could not get it work even we worked it with IBM support.
• Java Applet in Ephox editor is pain. You have to watch that you update your Java version correctly or You cannot edit anything. This might work somehow on enterprise environment with tight workstation configuration. I think that Java Applet editor is the worst part of IBM WCM
• IBM WCM needs lot of capacity on database and appserver.

IBM products always moves forward to adapt to new requirements and technologies. I have used versions 6, 6.1, 7 and 8 of IBM WCM, and I know IBM is ready to revamp the tool based on emerging needs, and still provide the capabilities to migrate your old system to the newer versions.

New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.

We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.

Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.

DNN [Platform] is as good as any CMS platform out there today. It's easier to use than WordPress for sophisticated sites and even (once set up properly) for non-technical people to maintain. For novice users without support, it's probably not the ideal solution against WordPress or wix etc. WP has more modules and extensions available. Drupal is a nightmare to use. Sitecore is expensive.

Incentivized

Each of the options had good points and bad points. Building a site with tight integration to HCL Commerce and SAP backend systems was just easier with HCL DX. Security is also a concern and HCL DX provided better fine-grained security across the board. HCL DX also allowed us to use multiple technologies and maintain a cohesive feel across everything.

Incentivized

• The free version is certainly good for ROI, but the paid versions are expensively licensed.

Incentivized

• Unique, easy and user friendly solution that has increased business benefits such as a single repository for all company's products. It provides a better customer service.
• A huge network of offices managed centrally increasing SEO, marketing, business and clients.
• Employee efficiency reducing time through a single automated solution.
• Internal communication within the company has been helped by Web Content Manager as a way of transparency, shared repository and networking with the goal of bringing teams and colleagues together.