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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Customer Focus

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ACustomer Focus is solution that includes order management, inventory management, warehousing, CMS, E-mail marketing, CRM, and general accounting functions. E-Commerce web stores are also included in the solution.

    $50

    # of stores and users

    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
    Customer FocusHCL Digital Experience
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $50
    # of stores and users
    Ultimate
    $99
    # of stores and users
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Customer FocusHCL Digital Experience
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$249 Site setup and trainingNo setup fee
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    Features
    Customer FocusHCL Digital Experience
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    9.2
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Product catalog & listings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CMS9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Checkout user experience9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized recommendations9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Shipping9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    -
    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 Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    -
    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 Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    -
    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 Customer Focus and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    Customer Focus
    -
    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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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score6.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Customer FocusHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Customer FocusHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    Today, with a globalized competition and without truce, a company must evaluate and take into account its size, and use this to analyze which of the tools available in the market is more suited to their needs. If it is a small company, you can improve your customer service by incorporating a chat. But a company of national level must evaluate other aspects like: marketing, tastes, preferences, tendencies, etc. To achieve the effective management of relationships with our customers, this technology provides us with effective tools and easy access.
    Incentivized
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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
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    • Facilitates the interaction between the company and customers, through various communication channels, thanks to the storage of information of interest, such as the needs and preferences for products or services.
    • Access data of interest (about the clients, their histories, products, prices, etc.,) from any place with access to the internet
    • An extensive knowledge about the clients allows the company to present commercial offers adapted to their needs, so the income is also higher, through a lower sales cycle. The CRM allows to enhance sales and marketing functions.
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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
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    • Cost is always an element to consider when purchasing a computer solution, both for the purchase of the software and for its maintenance, many forget about the ongoing support costs that come with software.
    • Many systems are backed up automatically through the cloud or through some other solution, but not all. So there is a good chance that the data will be lost. it is therefore necessary to take the safe backup forecasts in the event of any unforeseen occurrence and cause us an unpleasant surprise.
    • There is a difference between being served by a real person when making a phone call, to an automated attention system. Sometimes it is good to make the tasks more automatic, but it is also good to have a little personalized help to avoid losing the human value of relationships.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    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
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Support Rating
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    HCLSoftware
    We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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    Implementation Rating
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    Sales management is based on the management of customer relationships and must be centralized so that its analysis is effective. The data that is collected must be available for the generation of statistics for decision making by the directory. This tool allows us to generate the necessary data to generate results, save time and production cost. The other products did not fit our objectives.
    Incentivized
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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
    Customer Focus, Inc.
    • With the information available, about the clients, the company can know and segment the markets and develop effective and successful marketing campaigns.
    • With the information the employee can develop more personalized relationships with the client.
    • This customer service tool facilitated the administrative processes of sales to achieve higher performance and better results in the company.
    Incentivized
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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)
    Incentivized
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