Google Chrome vs. HCL Digital Experience

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Chrome
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Google Chrome is a web browser with features like password saving, synced settings across devices, dark mode, and the ability to keep accounts separate using different profiles. For enterprises, Chrome has built-in and added browser controls to protect your business for external and internal threats.
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HCL Digital Experience
Score 9.7 out of 10
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HCL 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
Google ChromeHCL Digital Experience
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google ChromeHCL Digital Experience
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Google ChromeHCL Digital Experience
Features
Google ChromeHCL Digital Experience
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Google Chrome
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
5 Ratings
48% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Google Chrome
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
4.1
5 Ratings
66% below category average
API00 Ratings4.14 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings4.15 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Google Chrome
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
2.9
5 Ratings
85% 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 Product A and Product B
Google Chrome
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
1.9
5 Ratings
112% 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
Google ChromeHCL Digital Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
5.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 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
Google ChromeHCL Digital Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Chrome is super well-suited to people who use Android phones, have limited experience with internet browsers, are intimidated by new technology, and are other language learners or tech learners. Chrome is less well-suited to people who are highly experienced and have strong opinions about their browsers, and to those with greater integration with Apple or other non-Google systems.
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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
Google
  • Security: Google Chrome is constantly updated to resolve any interoperability and or security issues.
  • Full App Integration: Apps and services can be quickly and easily pushed out to all users. Uniformity across Chrome ensures a repeatable user experience.
  • Portability and consistent environment: By hosting all services and apps remotely, users can have access to their information and communication from almost any device that has internet connectivity.
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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
Google
  • Alerting when bookmark links are broken
  • Better themes; there's great groundwork, but horribly barren and lack of quality options
  • Better tracking/security transparency with its users
  • Alert when cache slowing down performance, and quick navigation to clear this for the less tech-savvy.
  • Allowing file name edits within the quick-access download dropdown, without having to have this fully on or off, or having to navigate outside of Google Chrome
  • Embedded suggestion for quick-access extensions on homepage (with option to remove suggestions easily), for ad-blocking, accessibility, etc.
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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
Google
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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
Google
As mentioned earlier, it is a worldwide standard. It matches both the Platforms - Windows and iOS. Pages load quickly, and the website's presentation is impeccable. It needs to seamlessly integrate Google Gemini into Google Chrome. Overall, I will give 10/10 to the designer of Google Chrome.
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HCLSoftware
New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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Support Rating
Google
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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
Google
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HCLSoftware
Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Only Firefox comes close. Google Chrome is leaps and bounds above anything Microsoft has ever done in the browser space. Microsoft has lagged behind with Edge for years and continues to supply a subpar browsing experience. Google Chrome has the speed and the features to make it the best in the industry and it continues to go above and beyond where others do not keep up. With Gemini AI added, this will only continue to get better.
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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
Google
  • Because Google Chrome is a tool that has it all our people dont have to switch in browser they can use only Google Chrome what saves time
  • Because of the single use of Google Chrome our Servicedesk has to just know one application and we get half the tickets if you got 2 standard browsers.
  • Because Google Chrome is owned by Google it automaticly is very secure what retuns means Google Chrome has a good security. Which lead to lower security incidents
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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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