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34 Ratings
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Based on 34 reviews and ratings
Attribute Ratings
- CoreMedia is rated higher in 1 area: Implementation Rating
- HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager) is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew
Likelihood to Recommend

6.0
CoreMedia
60%
7 Ratings
9.0
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
90%
11 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

5.6
CoreMedia
56%
5 Ratings
5.7
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
57%
6 Ratings
Usability

CoreMedia
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
90%
2 Ratings
Support Rating

CoreMedia
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
70%
2 Ratings
Implementation Rating

8.0
CoreMedia
80%
2 Ratings
7.0
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
70%
2 Ratings
Product Scalability

CoreMedia
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
90%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
CoreMedia
I think this CMS is best suited as an enterprise level system. For small, or simple sites, there are better options, but for large high-traffic sites, this is a great CMS.
Lead Software Engineer
Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc.Health, Wellness and Fitness, 501-1000 employees
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
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.

Verified User
Strategist in Information Technology
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
CoreMedia
- Allows many staff members to contribute content to various portions of our website, and allows our Electronic-Communications staff to delegate tasks to these various staff (diffusing the work-load).
- CoreMedia allows for easy creation of different types of content (like teasers, articles, download objects, links, etc). Permission levels can be set, so only certain staff can upload content such as photos, videos, or audio files.
- The CoreMedia workflow process is easy to understand and follow. Once a staff member has submitted content for publishing to the web, they can then see who it's been assigned to for review, and at what time. You're able to leave detailed notes and stay abreast of where the workflow is at any given time.

Verified User
Contributor in Social Media
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employeesHCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
- 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.
Technology Specialist
CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Cons
CoreMedia
- Early learning within the company was slow.
- We elected a customized version of CoreMedia - which in the end may not have been the best decision.
Online Marketing Manager
Springer NaturePublishing, 10,001+ employees
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
- 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.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
CoreMedia
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
CoreMedia
CoreMedia 5.6
Based on 5 answers
CoreMedia continues to refine and deliver new features. They also explore new technologies and trends, like social media integration. The platform is solid and growing. We are also slightly locked into using CoreMedia. Migrating such a large amount of content to another system would likely not be feasible or prudent.
Lead Software Engineer
Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc.Health, Wellness and Fitness, 501-1000 employees
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager) 5.7
Based on 6 answers
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.
IBM WCM Developer/ team Leader
Inspire JordanComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Usability
CoreMedia
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager) 9.0
Based on 2 answers
New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
IT Project Manager
VASSInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Support Rating
CoreMedia
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager) 7.0
Based on 2 answers
We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
IT Project Manager
VASSInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Implementation Rating
CoreMedia
CoreMedia 8.0
Based on 2 answers
Set aside more time than you think you need to migrate content. That is the hard part. Implementing the technology is easy.
Lead Software Engineer
Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc.Health, Wellness and Fitness, 501-1000 employees
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager) 7.0
Based on 2 answers
Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
IT Project Manager
VASSInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Alternatives Considered
CoreMedia
While CoreMedia has a better workflow, django CMS has a much easier user interface, wysiwyg editor, and is superior on every other level. Django CMS is easier to teach and support, easier to manage and develop, and provides much more flexibility in the development and design areas.
Web Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)Non-Profit Organization Management, 501-1000 employees
HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
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 WCMLiveray can compete WCM 7 concerning the :¤ specific development¤ security¤ responsive
Développeur WEB
OSIATISInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
CoreMedia
- Increased employee proficiency compared to nothing at all. I really don't have anything else to compare it to though.
- Reports from Core do not help/.

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesHCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
- 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)
Responsable Technique IT
PIXELIXIRGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees