TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    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

    Yext

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AYext is a digital experience software provider headquartered in New York, New York.N/A
    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceYext
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL Digital ExperienceYext
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—The cost of Yext varies depending on a number of factors such as package type, business size, entity count, and more. To create a solution that fits your business goals, please contact us or request a demo.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    HCL Digital ExperienceYext
    Considered Both Products
    HCLSoftware
    No answer on this topic
    Yext
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceYext
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and Yext
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    49% below category average
    Yext
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and Yext
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    68% below category average
    Yext
    9.8
    3 Ratings
    16% above category average
    API4.14 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Yext
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    90% below category average
    Yext
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness3.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section3.15 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Page templates1.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes1.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow1.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator3.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of HCL Digital Experience and Yext
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    117% below category average
    Yext
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Content taxonomy1.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support2.15 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Bulk management2.13 Ratings9.42 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions2.14 Ratings9.42 Ratings
    Community / comment management2.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of HCL Digital Experience and Yext
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Yext
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of HCL Digital Experience and Yext
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Yext
    8.9
    3 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Cloud enablement00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Content aggregation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content classification00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Multi-website management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Digital asset management00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HCL Digital ExperienceYext
    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score6.8 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
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceYext
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.3
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceYext
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Yext
    We have multiple branch locations throughout our market area. It's very challenging to manage the web listings for each location, with a large volume of listings across numerous platforms for each of those locations. Yext significantly reduces the workload by allowing me to make a single update and Yext automatically pushes the notifications across the other platforms
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Yext
    • Yext is very, very user-friendly and easy to use.
    • Yext provides information within the portal on how you can enhance your listings as well as how you can fix any issues with your listings that may exist.
    • Yext's dedicated account managers can help you with any issues that may arise. For example our location pin on Apple Maps was wrong on one of our clinic listings and our Yext account manager reached out directly to Apple support and fixed the issue.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Yext
    • Cost. This platform offers a lot of powerful features, but it has an expensive barrier to entry.
    • Annual contracts limit flexibility for smaller companies
    • The biggest drawback is that you need to keep your subscription active or listings/citation data will revert back to what it was pre-Yext implementation
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Read full review
    Yext
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
    Read full review
    Yext
    Yext is pretty easy and straightforward to utilize out of the box. While I work for a digital marketing agency, and this is second nature to me at this point, I do believe the average SMB owner with zero digital marketing experience could be a proficient Yext user within 1 hour or so of usage. It's easy
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    HCLSoftware
    We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
    Read full review
    Yext
    Have been very impressed with the support we receive from Yext. I always feel I am listened to and if I have any problems or concerns they are quickly addressed. I have multiple ways to obtain support, either technical or strategic support, and they are responsive. I couldn't ask for more.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
    Read full review
    Yext
    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
    Read full review
    Yext
    We initially chose Yext because it provided the greatest control for our multiple listings. Plus, it had access to the most publishers. However, when evaluating Synup we were very impressed. You would not go wrong to choose either!
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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)
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Yext
    • Consistency in business listing management - without Yext, we would surely have more inconsistencies with our business address across the web. This can lead to poor communication to our customers, and potentially lost business if we lose trust as a reputable business.
    • Yext saves me hours of legwork to manage numerous web listing platforms individually.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    Yext Screenshots

    Screenshot of Yext Knowledge GraphScreenshot of Yext ListingsScreenshot of Yext PagesScreenshot of Yext ReviewsScreenshot of Yext SearchScreenshot of Yext Analytics