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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Compendium (discontinued)

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AFormerly Oracle Content Marketing of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, Compendium was a content marketing solution to create and distribute compelling content across multiple channels to a targeted audience. Users could plan, produce, and deliver content across multiple personas and channels throughout the customer life cycle. Oracle acquired the product in 2013. A legacy product, Compendium is now end of sale.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
    Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Compendium (discontinued) and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Compendium (discontinued)
    7.2
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation6.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval workflows9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production5.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Compendium (discontinued) and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Compendium (discontinued)
    6.6
    6 Ratings
    17% below category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub6.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Compendium (discontinued) and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Compendium (discontinued)
    6.6
    6 Ratings
    11% below category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard6.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analytics6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Compendium (discontinued) and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Compendium (discontinued)
    -
    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 Compendium (discontinued) and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Compendium (discontinued)
    -
    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 Compendium (discontinued) and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Compendium (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    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 Compendium (discontinued) and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Compendium (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    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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    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Oracle is great for a very basic blog. The look of ours was designed and built on the back end/code side, so I'm not sure if there are a lot of clean, modern templates like you see in a lot of blogs today to choose from or not. It has been great having a number of authors who can write content directly in the platform and then submit it to our content managers for scheduling and publishing. I think the biggest issue people may have with it is the look of the interface. It needs an update.
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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
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    • Permission levels are also nice so a random user cannot just post without a certain level of access.
    • I also like being able to update the code if necessary.
    • It's easy for users to access and write, and there's a nice workflow to review any content before it gets published.
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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
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    • Templates are a good thing, but hard to set up and require a lot of work. (Other Oracle tools are more user-friendly when it comes to template design.)
    • While they did a good job updating the interface, I still believe more work can be done to make it more user-friendly.
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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
    Discontinued Products
    Easy to use, and supporting several permutations, the CM suite is an excellent solution for a mid to large size business. It's meant to be used by a team, and the functionality can work across websites and landing pages. There's also the high benefit of translation management, providing support for localized products.
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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
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    It has never been down since we have used this software.
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    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Support Rating
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    To be perfectly honest, every one of my concerns and problems has been handled by the support team in a very timely manner. If they could not fix my issue they assured me it be addressed in future updates.
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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
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    Don't forget about customer service once you have a closed the sale with a customer. Oracle seemed to not care about our needs/timeline after we gave them our Purchase Order
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    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    While OCM was a lot more money, they were able to prove to us that they are a much better solution to use and worth the extra cost. The reporting, capabilities along with the analytics that was easy to download was a big discussion factor for us.
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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
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    • Everyone had their own plan and executed them without taking into consideration the impact of another ongoing project. Compendium has created communication between teams that were not communicating before.
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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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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of Content marketers can see every aspect of their content production process at a glance, which is essential for a successful content marketing strategy.Screenshot of Leveraging Oracle Content Marketing’s Business Units feature results in improved marketing alignment by empowering marketing leaders to view one unified content calendar, content repository, and analytics dashboard across the entire organization. Corporate executives can drill down on content creation, distribution, and impact for individual business units in order to make necessary changes to drive success at the divisional level.