HCL Digital Experience vs. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HCL Digital Experience
Score 7.7 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
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Score 8.2 out of 10
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WebSphere Hybrid Edition from IBM is a collection of WebSphere application runtimes and modernization tools that provides support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments, in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. The user can choose any WebSphere edition and deploy Liberty and application modernization tools to help move to a cloud-native architecture, modernize existing applications and support an existing WebSphere estate.
$88.50
per month
Pricing
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Editions & Modules
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Application Server
$88.50
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Considered Both Products
HCL Digital Experience
Chose HCL Digital Experience
IBM Web Content Manager comes with IBM WebSphere Portal. Both [have been] leaders in the portals and content management space for a long time with proven capabilities. Our clients also have other products from the IBM stack and they fit along nicely.
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

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Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
5 Ratings
46% below category average
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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Ratings
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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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Ratings
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
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
HCL Digital Experience
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Ratings
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
8.1
29 Ratings
1% above category average
IDE support00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings8.729 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings8.129 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings8.429 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings7.928 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.124 Ratings
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User Ratings
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(11 ratings)
8.6
(31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.7
(6 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HCL Digital ExperienceIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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
IBM WebSphere Hybrid edition is well-suited for the development and deployment of large enterprise-level applications such as Electronic Health Records that are used in our organization. IBM WebSphere is appropriate for organizations that require strong security and compliance as it provides a high level of security and compliance features. This works well with organizations that are subject to strict regulatory requirements, such as hospitals.
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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
  • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has done marvelous in building and deploying Java Enterprise applications.
  • It also does well in automating deployment and scaling. This has made it easier for our organization to deploy updates to our applications.
  • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition does well in security by providing features that protect enterprise applications.
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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
  • Ease of use in terms of deployment, give simple interface to do simple stuff like Tomcat, JBoss or GlassFish.
  • Takes long time to start the server.
  • The Liferay wars need to be decorated and then deployed. Perhaps we could simplify that.
  • Some of the concepts are good for complexity that WAS can handle but could be simplified and better documented, like concepts of well and profile, context, etc.
  • A Liferay war file created using Liferay Developer studio runs fine in Tomcat, however that may not run in WAS 7.x because it needs to be decorated. I had one war for a Liferay portlet with a simple cron job, and had hard time running to WAS server. It was running on the latest free download done on my friends m/c. Other times I have seen that there are issues running a war file that runs on Tomcat but runs on WAS after lot of customization for WAS.
  • The corporations like this however, the product may need better vibrant community of users where issues can be discussed.
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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
Mostly we will be renewing unless the strategic direction changes drastically or there are other complelling external circumstances. We've been on a multi year project to modernize our legacy applications and that effort will continue for the foreseeable future.
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Usability
HCL Technologies
New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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IBM
WebSphere Application Server is used across our organization. Most projects use this for Java products and applications. Being robust and scalable makes it even more usable. We love using WebSphere Application Server due to its configuration management ability made simple and vast across all java related parameters. It is dependent on the features and upgrades and IBM releases some great upgrades to WebSphere Application Server.
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Performance
HCL Technologies
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IBM
Deploys fairly quick enough and like the roll-out update feature decreasing the downtime and also plays well with other integration tools as well.
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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
IBM was quick to respond when we had an issue with our specific infrastructure. We raised a PMR, which they picked up quickly and updated us about every step of the way. We had an appropriate fix for quite a business critical issue within a fortnight, which was impressive!
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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
Cleo Integration Clould has many bells and whistles; however, when we added more maps and trading partners, it really slowed down. We found that the Cleo support was very slow to respond and there was a language barrier. IBM Websphere had better customer support and its processing was much faster than Cleo Integration Cloud
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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
  • Continuous uptime of the business applications we manage
  • It's now much simpler for me to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
  • Because it can offload for me management and maintenance of the application server to IBM I can focus on the development, deployment and testing of the applications which is more important
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