HCL Digital Experience vs. IBM FileNet Content Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HCL Digital Experience
Score 7.6 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
IBM FileNet Content Manager
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
IBM FileNet Content Manager is a cloud-native content services solution to manage, share and collaborate on content to save employees’ time and improve customer experiences. This ECM solution includes functionality for document management, business process management, case management, content analytics, imaging, records management, and information governance. The IBM FileNet Content Manager content management solution provides the foundation for IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation. It uses AI…N/A
Pricing
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM FileNet Content Manager
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM FileNet Content Manager
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Top Pros
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Features
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM FileNet Content Manager
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
5 Ratings
46% below category average
IBM FileNet Content Manager
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
HCL Digital Experience
4.1
5 Ratings
65% below category average
IBM FileNet Content Manager
-
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API4.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
HCL Digital Experience
2.9
5 Ratings
89% below category average
IBM FileNet Content Manager
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness3.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section3.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates1.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes1.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow1.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator3.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
HCL Digital Experience
1.9
5 Ratings
115% below category average
IBM FileNet Content Manager
-
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Content taxonomy1.15 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support2.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management2.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions2.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management2.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
IBM FileNet Content Manager
7.5
23 Ratings
9% below category average
Content capture & imaging00 Ratings7.219 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings8.121 Ratings
Document management00 Ratings8.523 Ratings
Records management00 Ratings7.021 Ratings
Content search & retrieval00 Ratings8.321 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings8.123 Ratings
Content publishing & creation00 Ratings7.620 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings7.722 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings7.618 Ratings
Automated workflows00 Ratings6.319 Ratings
Artificial intelligence00 Ratings6.816 Ratings
Mobile support00 Ratings6.615 Ratings
Integration00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
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User Ratings
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM FileNet Content Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(11 ratings)
8.3
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.7
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(17 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM FileNet Content Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
HCL Technologies
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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IBM
Well Suited Scenarios: Regulatory Compliance: IBM FileNet Content Manager is ideal for industries with strict regulatory requirements, such as healthcare and finance. It helps organizations securely manage and retain documents, ensuring compliance with data retention policies. Enterprise Document Management: Large organizations that deal with extensive document volumes benefit from FileNet's document capture, indexing, and search capabilities. It simplifies document management across departments. Less Appropriate Scenarios: Small Businesses: For small businesses with limited document management needs, FileNet may be overly complex and expensive. Simpler, more cost-effective solutions may be a better fit.Simple Document Storage: Organizations primarily seeking basic cloud-based document storage without extensive workflow automation or compliance requirements might find FileNet's capabilities excessive for their needs.
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Pros
HCL Technologies
  • 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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IBM
  • Detailed Audit trials for all document interactions.
  • As our organization grows, so does our data volume, IBM FileNet Content Manager seamlessly scales to accommodate this growth.
  • The search capabilities are powerful and we can quickly find information just by typing a name.
  • The version control feature ensures that every change, edit, or contribution is tracked and documented.
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Cons
HCL Technologies
  • 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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IBM
  • IBM FileNet Content Manager's interface is complex and difficult to navigate for some users. IBM should consider improving the user interface to make it more easier and intuitive.
  • IBM FileNet Content Manager may be difficult to integrate with other applications and systems. IBM should consider improving its integration capabilities to ease connectivity with other systems.
  • The wide range of customization make it challenging for users to configure the software to find find their specific needs. IBM should simplify the customization process to make it easier for users.
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Likelihood to Renew
HCL Technologies
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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IBM
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Usability
HCL Technologies
New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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IBM
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Support Rating
HCL Technologies
We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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IBM
It's a great tool for our legacy system however the implementation, management time and lack of a niche provided by IBM makes it a difficult tool to recommend in a fast-paced market.
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Implementation Rating
HCL Technologies
Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
HCL Technologies
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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IBM
IBM FileNet Content Manager is a much superior product compared to anything in the market, IBM AI is really great and the ability to automate is really awesome. We also use other IBM products such as RPA and it integrates seamlessly. Compliance is really the USP of IBM FileNet Content Manager
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Return on Investment
HCL Technologies
  • 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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IBM
  • It really streamline the business processes and reduced the overall approval time across the department.
  • Search for Document is really accurate and easy to search the specific documents.
  • Manage the content is easy
  • Also allow to add non documents related objects
  • API,s are well structured and documented
  • Content Navigator is simple to use
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ScreenShots

IBM FileNet Content Manager Screenshots

Screenshot of Editing in Microsoft Word - Collaboration in real time using Microsoft Office for the web.Screenshot of External file sharing - Securely share with external users.Screenshot of Annotation and redaction - Features an advanced viewer used to create annotations and apply redactions to content.