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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GatherContent

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AGatherContent headquartered in London offers their content operations, collaboration and governance platform for enterprises.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
    GatherContentHCL Digital Experience
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GatherContentHCL 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
    GatherContentHCL Digital Experience
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of GatherContent and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    GatherContent
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    Role-based user permissions9.01 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of GatherContent and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    GatherContent
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    API7.01 Ratings4.14 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.01 Ratings4.15 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of GatherContent and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    GatherContent
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.01 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Admin section9.01 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Page templates8.01 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.01 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Publishing workflow10.01 Ratings1.14 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of GatherContent and HCL Digital Experience
    Feature
    GatherContent
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    SEO support9.01 Ratings2.15 Ratings
    Bulk management7.01 Ratings2.13 Ratings
    Community / comment management10.01 Ratings2.13 Ratings
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings2.14 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    GatherContentHCL 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
    GatherContentHCL Digital Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GatherContent
    We create and manage content for various client's websites. The customizable workflows, assignments and user roles help us keep everyone accountable to deadlines. It is transparent, collaborative, and more efficient for all.
    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
    GatherContent
    • Easy to navigate interface.
    • Customizable workflow.
    • Set up project templates for recurring projects.
    Incentivized
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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
    GatherContent
    • Getting emails for every single change is really annoying.
    • It seems pretty easy, but I suggest you take time to train anyone who will be working on it.
    • API integrations could be better as it doesn't work 100% of the time.
    • Layouts created are static and you can not move the order.
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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
    GatherContent
    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
    GatherContent
    No answers on this topic
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Support Rating
    GatherContent
    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
    GatherContent
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    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GatherContent
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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
    GatherContent
    • Accountability to deadlines and roles.
    • Less emails and less multiple documents.
    • Large scale content management for new websites.
    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)
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