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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DemandScience

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADemandScience is a data-driven marketing platform that offers lead generation and data services that accelerate the technology sales process by identifying intent among technology buyers. Founded in 2009, DemandScience helps marketers meet the ever-changing demands of B2B sales.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
    DemandScienceHCL Digital Experience
    Editions & Modules
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    DemandScienceHCL 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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    Community Pulse
    DemandScienceHCL Digital Experience
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    DemandScience
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    66 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    67 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    60 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
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    Features
    DemandScienceHCL Digital Experience
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of DemandScience and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    DemandScience
    7.8
    17 Ratings
    6% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting8.617 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics7.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of DemandScience and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    DemandScience
    -
    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 DemandScience and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    DemandScience
    -
    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 DemandScience and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    DemandScience
    -
    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 DemandScience and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    DemandScience
    -
    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
    DemandScienceHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (75 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (69 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.5
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DemandScienceHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DemandScience
    Demand Science did deliver the quantity of leads without issue. The data for a few was not accurate (bounced when following up). But they agreed to make good by providing substitute leads to meet the quota. Towards the end of my project, they lost a few folks, and so the end of my campaign got a little rough as they were taking over some assignments midway. But we ultimately completed the SOW. I will say that the leads did not perform well in our email cadence - none converted. However, this was a test of the concept for us. Content syndication had a lower cost per qualified lead than some other tactics, so we tested it. Your results may vary, based on your follow-up and your market.
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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
    DemandScience
    • The initial pitch and contact from Mason used "show me you know me" well, which we felt was a good sign of company culture and approach to database marketing.
    • Delivery of leads was ahead of schedule.
    • They set expectations, and then delivered what they said they would.
    • The leads matched our criteria as agreed.
    • Regular check ins and catch ups, and patience when thing were taking a bit of time to get sorted here.
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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
    DemandScience
    • We would like to see more proactive communication on what's working and what's not without requiring a meeting - regular reporting cadence to assess asset quality
    • A dashboard view might be nice as well, again, so we can look at an asset and see how it's performing (or if it isn't) without having to wait on a rep to pull a report or schedule a walkthrough
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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
    DemandScience
    Our executives decided to not renew because we were not seeing the ROI they were looking for. However, our executives did not make the best decisions on the data Demand Science provided.
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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
    DemandScience
    The leads were pretty straight forward. However, their appointment setting did not integrate well into our system and many of the meetings didn't occur. I had to chase a lot of prospects and many times Demand Science didn't provide direct dials.
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    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Support Rating
    DemandScience
    Our rep is always available and quickly responds to any question we have. I haven't worked with other partners who are as proactive and excited to help us as our DemandScience rep is. He reaches out with new ideas and suggestions frequently. They are happy to make any changes needed to the campaigns and make those changes quickly and efficiently. They work well with our execution agency, but are also happy to meet with us directly to provide insights and support.
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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
    DemandScience
    They did extremely well. However, our executives did a poor job in defining our ICP so we didn't get the maximum benefit out of it.
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    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DemandScience
    I've not used another content syndication company, and I probably won't after the lack of results we've had. I have used direct email organizations, and they are stronger but also more expensive, so you have to weigh your priorities. I could see if you were selling a specific product or software and how this could be beneficial, but I'd steer away from it for services.
    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
    DemandScience
    • We have been able to grow our lead numbers with high quality leads at a reasonable cost
    • We have been able to generate just the leads we want to support our Business Development team
    • We have been able to get our content in front of our specific TAL
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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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