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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

    Score8.6 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

    WordPress VIP

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
    Pricing
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Considered Both Products
    Sitecore
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    Automattic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.8
    31 Ratings
    18% above category average
    WordPress VIP
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Role-based user permissions9.831 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.7
    28 Ratings
    15% above category average
    WordPress VIP
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    API9.927 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.525 Ratings5.52 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.9
    31 Ratings
    15% above category average
    WordPress VIP
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor8.231 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.529 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Admin section8.930 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Page templates9.428 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.416 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.027 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.329 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Form generator9.428 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.2
    30 Ratings
    24% above category average
    WordPress VIP
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Content taxonomy9.428 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    SEO support9.326 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Bulk management9.024 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.728 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.726 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    13% below category average
    WordPress VIP
    -
    Ratings
    Conversion tracking7.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test reporting7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis7.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    12 Ratings
    14% below category average
    WordPress VIP
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign management7.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud enablement8.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content aggregation8.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content classification8.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer data analytics7.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-website management8.711 Ratings00 Ratings
    Digital asset management8.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management8.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (41 ratings)
    8.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (16 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.4
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    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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    Automattic
    WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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    Pros
    Sitecore
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    Automattic
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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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    Automattic
    • Too many different dashboard formats
    • Everything should have the same look and feel.
    • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Automattic
    It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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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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    Automattic
    There is documentation for everything you might need.
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    Support Rating
    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Automattic
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    Online Training
    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Automattic
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Automattic
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Sitecore
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    Automattic
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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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    Automattic
    • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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