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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acquia Digital Experience Platform

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability a modern organization needs. With its customer data platform, it allows organizations to understand who their customers are and deliver personalized experiences. Acquia's DXP offers variety of other tools including digital asset management,…N/A

    HCL Digital Experience

    Score9.9 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
    Pricing
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformHCL Digital Experience
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformHCL Digital Experience
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Acquia
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    74 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    48 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
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    Features
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformHCL Digital Experience
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    49 Ratings
    1% below category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    Role-based user permissions8.049 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.7
    41 Ratings
    4% below category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    API7.839 Ratings4.14 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.632 Ratings4.15 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.9
    43 Ratings
    11% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.331 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.134 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Admin section7.942 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Page templates8.030 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.226 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.828 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.934 Ratings1.14 Ratings
    Form generator7.924 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    5% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    Content taxonomy7.728 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    SEO support6.029 Ratings2.15 Ratings
    Bulk management6.931 Ratings2.13 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.432 Ratings2.14 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.226 Ratings2.13 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (93 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (73 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acquia
    It made it super easy to upgrade 300+ Drupal sites to the latest major version in 12 weeks, end to end. It is easy to deploy legal changes and updates to components at scale. Turnkey service to deploy new environments and to clone sites. There are no ecosystem lock-in principles for Customer service/success services and professional services for new approaches.
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    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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    Pros
    Acquia
    • It's fast, no lag time
    • Exceptionally good support. When there's a problem, you reach out to your account manager who either fixes the issue or gets you to the right person. We've had no downtime.
    • Platform is very accessible to those who know how to manage the back end software.
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    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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    Cons
    Acquia
    • Support responds pretty quickly to critical tickets, but they can be slow to respond on non-urgent items. Some of what we experienced may have been related to a newer ticketing system recently implemented.
    • Standard support covers business days/hours but only critical support is available outside those times. We typically schedule our website updates for the weekend or "off" hours when only critical support is available.
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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acquia
    We're moving away from Drupal as a platform. Drupal 8 and 9 were simply too overburdened and difficult to maintain compared to other offerings. PHP seems like a dying language so we are currently in the process of migrating all of our Drupal 7 functionality and custom modules to a Python/Django/Wagtail platform. This doesn't mean Acquia isn't a great service, they are professional and top-knotch, but the only way we'd say with them is if I didn't complete the migration.
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    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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    Usability
    Acquia
    It's a great user interface. It's always being updated and I've never noticed a bad update that increased the complexity or reduced
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    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Support Rating
    Acquia
    Every time we have had an issue, Acquia support has responded promptly and worked with us as a team to solve the problem. The Acquia support team is global and we have literally had interactions with all of their support offices, yet the experience has been the same - top notch
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    HCLSoftware
    We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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    Implementation Rating
    Acquia
    It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.
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    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acquia
    We chose Acquia for a much better UI that gave non-analytical marketers and easy to use tool where they could create their own reports. The campaign side of things also had an easier to use UI as well, that made the targeting of audiences much easier.
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    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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    Scalability
    Acquia
    The DXP tools can handle millions of requests and can scale automatically to fit your needs. We have clients that use only part of the DXP tools and have a small usage, but even in these cases they see great value in using tools like personalization and CDP.
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    HCLSoftware
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    Return on Investment
    Acquia
    • Acquia has helped us to stabilize and optimize our website performance, lowering page load times and dramatically decreasing the frequency of issues experienced by end-users.
    • Acquia SOLR search provided a much-improved search experience on our website.
    • Acquia's PCI-compliant hosting has helped us to remain compliant and cyber-secure.
    • We are working to implement Acquia Site Studio and Acquia Personalization now and expect those to improve our operation agility and ability to drive more relevant experiences to our various website visitors.
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    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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