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    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Sitecore Experience Platform (Sitecore XP) is a digital experience platform used to build websites and create customer experiences online. The solution boasts fast content authoring, built-in personalization features, testing and other optimizations, as well as analytics and marketing features.N/A
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    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Sitecore
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    The XM cloud technology stack is ahead of the platforms and its data structure is easier to learn.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Adobe Marketo Engage is a fantastic product for managing campaigns and audience segmentations syncing with Adobe Audience Manager. It also has OOTB connectivity to very popular CRM platforms. Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target are pretty similar to Sitecore CDP/Personalize. Any …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Other tools lack one or the other and fail to provide a comprehensive best experience for everyone - content authors, marketers and developers. Sitecore comes with out of the box authoring host, best content authoring and WYSIWYG editing experience and much more.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Really the only comparable product to Sitecore DXP is Adobe Experience Manager. Both are very well established and robust content management platforms. Products like Contentful and Contentstack are very lightweight and do not have as many built-in features like DXP, so it is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Its is simply by far the most advanced system. Using other CMS you will soon be blocked with advanced customizations specially to their back office but Sitecore enables you to do whatever you want and hook into the pipelines and embed your own code/business logic.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    I haven't used other DXPs in that great detail to provide a holistic comparison between it and Sitecore. Overall, I feel every product has its pros and cons. With Sitecore, I feel they are always innovating and coming up with new solutions to help the partners deliver the best …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    We experienced issues with this CMS and thus switched from Sitecore Experience Platform to AEM and both of them have their own pro and cons.
    While Sitecore Experience Platform provides flexibility to copy properties from one page to other, AEM doesnot allow that.. we need to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    The main reason to use Sitecore Experience Manager is if you want to develop something completely custom. Sitecore is best suited for very robust, multi-page websites. If you need to build out a website that supports multiple product lines, Sitecore could be a good option.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    All of these platforms have their pros and cons. Selecting the best fit is a matter aligning corporate need vs features provided. Have a .NET shop with an advanced marketing team looking to push UX forward and willing to pay a premium, then Sitecore may be the right fit. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    After evaluating OpenText, we found that Sitecore has stronger capabilities to utilize the content for personalization and contextual marketing. We also favored Sitecore's user permissions, roles, and content creation processes out of the box.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Sitecore was evaluated by our practice next to two other Content management systems 4 years ago. Sitecore scored the highest following a series of questions related to product stability, scalability, ease of use, and a host of other categories.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    WordPress and Wix are great solutions for a small business or a solopreneur who's just looking to get a simple website up and running. For larger businesses with more robust content, I think Sitecore offers a bit more flexibility. Wix and WordPress are both really simple to get …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Sitecore provides and enterprise grade CMS over WordPress and allow us to do the customization we need for our unique environment. Optimizely might be better for AB testing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    WordPress is easier than Sitecore. Drupal has more functionality and more support. Joomla also has more support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Sitefinity is improving but at the time of decision making it had nothing that could compare with the A/B testing and personalisation features that Sitecore offers. This was a key differentiator and ultimately ensured Sitecore was purchased. WordPress isn't really comparable …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Launchrock, Webdam, eZ, crownpeak, SignalMind
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Based on my perspective these are the main reasons for choosing Sitecore over others.
    • It is a one-stop shop for all customer engagement platforms with a lot of developer communities over the web.
    • It is a .NET based platform as there are a lot of .Net developers in the market.
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    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    The decision to select Sitecore was not ultimately mine, but the fact that we were able to leverage in-house Microsoft .Net (C#) experience on a platform that had a library of extensions, but also allowed us to customize and keep private our confidential IP has been a big help. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Of all the competitors listed above, Sitecore owned, by far, the best combination of power, easy-of-use, and extensibility. It easily outperformed the other paid-for CMS systems. Its power is especially noticeable in its ability to handle very complex workflows, security …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Even though sitecore is not an open source program it's offering was valuable enough to make us choose it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    I have used an in-house CMS and the Amaxus CMS. Sitecore is a great balance of these two. The in-house CMS was VERY user friendly, for the least technical client. It showed the actual page you were editing and allowed you to basically edit the text on the page, no HTML …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Every product has a cost window it fits in. Umbraco is perfect for small to mid-enterprise implementations. However Sitecore is more stable from a developement standpoint.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    For us, Sitecore was all about the integration possibilities and a CMS that empowered our staff to get their information published online in a timely fashion. At the time SiteFinity was still early in its development. Sitecore was a more mature product with many more features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    A lot more functionality.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.9
    31 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Role-based user permissions9.931 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.7
    28 Ratings
    15% above category average
    API9.927 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.525 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.9
    31 Ratings
    15% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor8.231 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.529 Ratings
    Admin section8.930 Ratings
    Page templates9.428 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.316 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.027 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.429 Ratings
    Form generator9.428 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.2
    30 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Content taxonomy9.428 Ratings
    SEO support9.426 Ratings
    Bulk management9.024 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.728 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.726 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Conversion tracking7.69 Ratings
    Test reporting7.410 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis7.310 Ratings
    User Segmentation7.510 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    12 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Campaign management7.712 Ratings
    Cloud enablement8.412 Ratings
    Content aggregation8.112 Ratings
    Content classification8.212 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization8.012 Ratings
    Customer data analytics7.411 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations7.612 Ratings
    Multi-website management8.711 Ratings
    Digital asset management8.312 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management8.011 Ratings
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    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (41 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (16 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sitecore
    Sitecore offers Content Hub with Product Content Management and Content Management Platform. The Digital Experience Platform and Content Hub can both host structured content and publish the finalized version to Experience Edge. Both platforms offer different ways to manage content. During a technical and business evaluation, the evaluation panel must understand the difference between a Content Modelling focused approach, or a layout management focused approach. Sitecore Digital Experience Platform is also best not to be used to host many files and images in the Media Library. That responsibility should be offloaded to a digital asset management company like Sitecore Content Hub DAM. The technology evaluation panel must also understand how to work with a Headless CMS, where the HEAD needs to be hosted, and the costs associated with the HEAD. Composable DXP is fantastic, but everyone must understand the various cost components. Marketers and the data team will need to go into the CDP and Personalize the platform with an excellent understanding of how a composable "installation" works. All the Martech vendors have similar challenges that data and development teams need to work through with a full experience. Any CDP/analytics platform will, at some stage, require further data enrichment from other sources. Understanding the Sitecore Search features and limitations is also essential.
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    Pros
    Sitecore
    • Comprehensive Solution: Sitecore offers a fully integrated suite of products that cover the full spectrum of DXP capabilities, including search, personalization experimentation and more, delivering a complete composable DXP solution for customers.
    • Beyond Headless: XM Cloud provides more than just headless capabilities, featuring in-built tools like authoring host, page editor, etc., enabling faster and more powerful implementations.
    • Focus on AI: Sitecore has now got an excellent AI offering called Stream; it looks promising; however, it would be too early to give feedback on the same.
    • Customization: Sitecore's backend is highly customizable, allowing for deep modifications through pipelines and patch configurations.
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    Cons
    Sitecore
    • Experience Editor is a little old fashioned and sometimes slow to use.
    • Bulk operations in the Content Editor
    • Sitecore serialization is should be part of the Content Editor to provide visual reference for items which are serialized and will be overwritten by future deployments similar to what Unicorn does so well
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Sitecore
    Sitecore has proven that it can deliver on its promise of a robust, reliable enterprise CMS solution with plenty of features. Also, they keep updating it with more and better features. Now that we are highly trained on it we have started on getting the most out of it and we plan to keep doing more of that in the future.
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    Usability
    Sitecore
    Once you learn how to use the platform and can put a solid strategy in place to manage it long-term, it becomes a lot easier to use. The tricky part is working with resources who are familiar with the platform to navigate some of the common implementation and configuration pitfalls. Although Sitecore has worked very hard to overcome some of these from their earlier product versions by creating wizards and improving their support documentation, at the end of the day it is still a very complex and powerful system that needs to be implemented carefully in order to foster the best possible user experience for authors. So it could be rated very usable or not usable at all based on how much planning took place and the quality of the implementation.
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    Support Rating
    Sitecore
    1. Customized software development & maintenance. 2. Technology Consulting - Consulting-based services for technology solutions data engineering or cloud solutions. 3. Used for tapping into multiple data sources such as CRM and marketing automation systems and, creating automated data extracts with a high-end visual representation of data. 4. Implemented for scheduling an existing report to automatically refresh and be delivered to specific users at a specific regular interval.
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    Online Training
    Sitecore
    Sitecore captures and remembers every single interaction your customers and prospects have in any part of the system, allowing you to build comprehensive, ever-learning profiles of each individual. From email marketing, to social media, to online shopping, Sitecore remembers where each interaction left off so you can automatically continue the conversation. Sitecore helps you manage your content for each and every experience your customers enjoy. Customize what content you want and the system will take care of how it's displayed.
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    Implementation Rating
    Sitecore
    Make sure you work with a partner that can help you take advantage of the entire platform. Specifically we see a lot of customers not taking advantage of Sitecore DMS and thus missing a huge opportunity. Sitecore is a platform that is meant to be constantly optimized and improved upon.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sitecore
    Sitefinity is improving but at the time of decision making it had nothing that could compare with the A/B testing and personalisation features that Sitecore offers. This was a key differentiator and ultimately ensured Sitecore was purchased. WordPress isn't really comparable and isn't within our technology stack, which is mostly Microsoft.
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    Return on Investment
    Sitecore
    • ROI depends on what features the customer wants to leverage from Sitecore. Sitecore is not just a CMS. It's CEP platform which comes with Analytics, Personalization, A/B Testing, and Email for marketers modules etc., out of the box.
    • Based on my experience some of the customers lean towards third party services. This is primarily due to lack of the understanding of these features. If a customer leverages these out of the box features ROI will be high. It depends on how much is being [sent] to third parties services.
    • Sitecore has very good accelerators in the market. These accelerators allows you to create response sites very quickly. If a simple campaign site takes 50K to build the site may save at least 50% of that cost. Examples of site accelerators are Brainjocks, Keystone, Cognifide etc.
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