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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACoSchedule provides a content calendar, content optimization, and contentmarketing products, with users among 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value.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
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteHCL Digital Experience
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteHCL 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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    Features
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteHCL Digital Experience
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    25% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Content distribution10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    30% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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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    User Ratings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule is great for businesses or agencies who need an overview of all their marketing efforts, and who want to establish collaboration between multiple departments. The calendar view is one of the best we've worked with and makes it easy to see exactly what's happening. There is some slight clunkiness when it comes to admin-related tasks, and a few things aren't easy to find, but there's great support.
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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
    CoSchedule
    • Best time to post is great at updating to when we get the most engagement by platform
    • Requeue tool to slate out additional posts for a given piece of content is a huge time saver
    • Aggregate analytics tool shows us a peek across our posts on a given platform that's actually easier to read than the platform itself
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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
    CoSchedule
    • The platform seems sluggish as of late, likely as a result of the robust amount of data we are entering and the number of filters we're creating.
    • Social media scheduling exists, but we do run into publishing errors more often then we'd like.
    • Task templates when updated are not retroactive, so when you create projects for an entire year and then change a template, you need to go back and change them manually.
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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
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    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
    CoSchedule
    The interface is very intuitive, from setting up social profiles, to posting, to tags, to optimizing for best day/time to post. It's super easy to scan the aggregate analytics. The calendar is very easy to grok at a glance, and the more advanced functionality is intuitive to set up.
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    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Support Rating
    CoSchedule
    I didn't have to use their official support, but I can say that they put out a lot of content online to help users. Their YouTube page has quite an array of tutorial videos explaining how things work and how to get the most out of their tools. If you're struggling, before picking up a phone or blasting off an email, try searching for your problem on YouTube or their forums.
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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
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule provides collaborative planning of projects. The calendar view is very well designed. Meetings and tasks can be scheduled and tracked easily. Whatever is being done, no matter how big the task/project is, it gives a bird-eye view of everything. Additionally, it also integrated very well with WordPress. Their customer service team is also very 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
    CoSchedule
    • It has saved me about 1 hour per day to keep things organized from Asana to WordPress.
    • By not having a functioning Google Doc import feature, it costs me about 30 minutes for each blog post to copy paste all the content, images, etc.
    • By bundling too many features into their plans, many of which we don't use (e.g. social media scheduling), we lose a little ROI because we are not using the full feature set. We use and prefer Buffer for social media, so when CoSchedule raised their price $40+ per month on features we would not be using, that hurt.
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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

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of Calendar Organizer: Visualizes everything in real time, and shows every project on a unified calendar of record. Helps to keep stakeholders in the know and pivot quickly when priorities change.Screenshot of Content Organizer: Eliminates content bottlenecks from idea to promotion. Optimizes the editorial process, and centralizes publishing and promotion by connecting marketing tools.Screenshot of Work Organizer: Maximizes resources by implementing consistent, defined workflows to speed up production and identify how urgent changes impact proactively planned work.Screenshot of Asset Organizer: Catalogs and maintains control of brand assets with customized taxonomies to find, update, and share files. Folders and files can be shared with stakeholders to make sure work is up-to-date.Screenshot of Idea Board: Used to write down ideas, take in requests, and prioritize the projects that are up-next, before giving them a publish date and putting them on the calendar organizer.Screenshot of An AI-powered Marketing Intelligence Assistant that can be used to write first-draft copy, complete work faster, and generate new ideas.