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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HCL Digital Experience

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHCL Digital Experience is based on the former IBM Web Content Manager and IBM WebSphere Portal products, acquired by HCL Technologies from IBM in late 2018. The product allows the user to create, manage and deliver engaging omnichannel digital experiences to audiences with responsive content, targeted offers, seamlessly integrated applications and consistent branding across channels (web, mobile, and hybrid mobile/web applications and more).N/A

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce 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
    HCL Digital ExperienceSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL Digital ExperienceSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HCL Digital ExperienceSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    HCLSoftware
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    49% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    68% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    API4.14 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    90% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.04 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness3.15 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Admin section3.15 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Page templates1.15 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes1.15 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Publishing workflow1.14 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Form generator3.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of HCL Digital Experience and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    117% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Content taxonomy1.15 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO support2.15 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Bulk management2.13 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions2.14 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management2.13 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of HCL Digital Experience and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    6% 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 HCL Digital Experience and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    8% 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
    Best Alternatives
    HCL Digital ExperienceSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Yext
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    HCLSoftware
    HCL DX does really well at managing and maintaining the site. It allows the business to basically maintain the site while IT spent time developing new and enhanced functions. The main issue I currently have with HCL DX is not directly with the product but it does play a role. It is difficult finding skilled resources to support HCL DX in my experience.
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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
    HCLSoftware
    • With Version 8.5, IBM Web Content Manager introduced in place editing capabilities which allow authors to make content edits on sections of the page instead of going to the content itself. This feature allows authors to make changes in context of the page and preview changes within the actual look and feel of a live page.
    • Projects provide a collaborative atmosphere for the author community so that authors can interact and work as a team to manage inter-dependent content changes under one project and publish all changes at once, instead of working separately on individual content changes. This brings awareness across authors in an organization and easy knowledge share.
    • IBM Digital Data Connector is a cool feature that allows [users] to integrate external content sources onto the portal using IBM Web Content Manager presentation components. This allows UI/UX designers to present integrated external data in any manner they want, manage UI changes with an underlying approval process and leverage syndication to push changes live immediately.
    • IBM Web Content Manager offers a targeted content feature that allows business users to deliver personalized content to customers based on customer demographic information, browsing history and other transaction related information. Any rules created follow the publishing process thereby making it just a configurable item resulting in less turn around to turn on the feature on a website.
    • IBM Web Content Manager offers 'multi lingual solution' out of the box which allows content creation for almost all popular languages.
    • Syndication feature has improved a lot and it now provides a detailed views comprising of 'failed items', 'items that have syndicated successfully, 'items in queue'. Failed items view provides detailed and clear cut information of what resulted in failure helping IT to troubleshoot problems easily.
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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
    HCLSoftware
    • IBM Web Content Manager should provide some easily usable connectors through a GUI to connect to bring content from custom data sources including connecting to Salesforce and custom databases.
    • Should further optimize and enhance creation of rich and responsive content driven UIs on various digital channels.
    • Should further optimize and enhance content personalization features.
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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
    HCLSoftware
    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.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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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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    Performance
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    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
    HCLSoftware
    We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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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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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    HCLSoftware
    Magento and Prestashop are E-commerce CMS platforms. They are used in a different scale of application than WCM.
    Concerning Joomla, it's a useful CMS forsmaller website. Once again this is an other scale of application than WCM Liveray can compete WCM 7 concerning the : ¤ specific development ¤ security ¤ responsive
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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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    Return on Investment
    HCLSoftware
    • Negative: Very complex architecture for on-premise deployments (too many servers to installed)
    • Positive: Easy customization
    • Negative: Architecture limited to cloud solutions
    • WCM is an old product and needs an update
    • Blog, and community are not integrated in Digital Manager for discussion
    • Templates are not available to integrate basic services (FileNet, more complex BPM , e-commerce)
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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
    Incentivized
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