Experro vs. HCL Digital Experience

Experro's seamless integration and powerful features have elevated our eCommerce game. We would enthusiastically recommend Experro to any business seeking a complete solution for creating stunning and high-performing online stores. Its user-friendly nature and compatibility with BigCommerce make it an ideal choice for those aiming to surpass customer expectations.

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

• Experro's Headless Store Frontend integrated with our existing backend on Shopify, creating rich, lightning-fast, headless content and commerce experiences without requiring us to overhaul our system.
• It bundled all the necessary components for headless eCommerce implementation, eliminating the need for separate hosting, CDN, or CMS.
• Experro offered revenue-generating search experiences for each customer, significantly increasing our conversions.

• 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

• While the current menu management works effectively, some users may find a simplified user interface to be more intuitive and user-friendly.

• 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.

When it's all so good,what's the reason to not renew it? ;)

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.

The ease of use is top-notch! Honestly, the platform is intuitive. Whether it i uploading new content or managing the digital assets of a landing page - we got the hang of it pretty quickly.

New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.

We had contacted the support team to solve our doubts about the theme integration. The team was quick. Apparently they are available 24x5, it is pretty much enough to cover all our needs in the real-time.

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

Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.

In my experience, Experro is Highly affordable, no operational overhead, fully-managed so you can focus on your business whereas Contentful has a Higher license, development, and maintenance costs.Experro integrates with any eCommerce platform and offers a fully-managed frontend out-of-the-box while there is a need to hire developers to stitch Contentstack, eCommerce APIs, and third-party apps into a “custom” build frontend.

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

• Switching to Experro has saved a lot of our developers' time, getting them to focus on other pertinent tasks instead of making daily updates on the website

• 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.