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    Channelscaler

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Channelscaler is the product resulting from the combing of Allbound and Channel Mechanics. It is a cloud-based channel sales and marketing platform that allows organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools and resources in one mobile-friendly place.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
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    ChannelscalerHCL Digital Experience
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    ChannelscalerHCL Digital Experience
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    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    ChannelscalerHCL Digital Experience
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    Channelscaler
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ChannelscalerHCL Digital Experience
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Channelscaler and HCL Digital Experience
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    Channelscaler
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    Ratings
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Channelscaler and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Channelscaler
    -
    Ratings
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    API00 Ratings4.14 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings4.15 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Channelscaler and HCL Digital Experience
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    Channelscaler
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    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings1.14 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Channelscaler and HCL Digital Experience
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    Channelscaler
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    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings2.15 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings2.13 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings2.14 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings2.13 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ChannelscalerHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    ChannelscalerHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Channelscaler
    Allbound is a sleek solution that neatly organizes data. Clearly presents useful instructional content. The slowness of the CRM connection is a problem. When it comes to reaching out to our worldwide network of channel partners, we turn on Allbound to streamline our communication and sales enablement efforts. Our reseller partners may use this central hub to register new deals, stay up to speed on product changes, and have access to all relevant product information.
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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
    Channelscaler
    • Content Management including sales & marketing resources, calendar items, distributor and partner communications, and news for partners
    • Deal registration and MDF management--providing an easy to use system for partners and Cambum administrators to enter and review requests.
    • Increasing partner engagement--providing an easy way to update the portal frequently keeps our partners coming back to see the latest and greatest resources and benefits
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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
    Channelscaler
    • The fact that you can't make payouts to partners within the platform itself is super frustrating and that would be a huge improvement.
    • The ability to track clicks, page views, etc is not available like on other partner platforms like Tune, Impact, and Cake. It would be awesome to see that tracking data for the content being shared.
    • Having more integrations with platforms like Zuora which we use for payments would be great.
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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
    Channelscaler
    Allbound is so easy to use as an administrator and provides human support and a resource for its customers to learn about the features and tools available. Our partners consistently provide feedback to us about how much they absolutely love our partner portal, which Allbound provides the structure and functionality to allow us to over amazing things to thousands of partner globally. Almost every person who provides feedback says some iteration of "this is the best partner portal i've ever used."
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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
    Channelscaler
    It is by far the easiest system to administrator that I have either had experience doing or demoed from other vendors. No coding skills needed. Simple interfaces for everything. And the Allbound University and live support are great!
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    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Support Rating
    Channelscaler
    Allbound has a support team that is easy to contact right through the PRM interface. Additionally, we have a dedicated account manager and development team who are super responsive and helpful. Allbound has a ticketing system for support as well, which keeps you up to date on status of your support requests.
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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
    Channelscaler
    Regular meetings, lots of UAT, quick responses, and adherence to our timeline made implementation a breeze -- even though we had some really complex processes we needed to support.
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    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Channelscaler
    They are different in the sense that Allbound allows you to loop in different parners to a degree that HubSpot doesn't outside smaller extensions and portals. More visbility into interactions with HubSpot, but it's truly built for marketing vs a sales forward/partnership management tool.Extensions from Allbound into Google could be helpful
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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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    Return on Investment
    Channelscaler
    • The sharing of knowledge has a positive effect on the partners who benefit from it.
    • Our smaller partners are now able to conduct their own campaigns with the help of our Campaigns in a Box, freeing us to concentrate on our larger clients.
    • Our latest products can all be better explained with the aid of our learning tracks.
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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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