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).
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Leadfwd
Score8.2 out of 10
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Leadfwd, from the company of the same name in Staten Island, combines B2B Prospecting, Sales Outreach and Account-Based Marketing. It replaces the former INBOX25.
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HCL Digital Experience
Leadfwd
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HCL Digital Experience
Leadfwd
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Features
HCL Digital Experience
Leadfwd
Security
Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
5 Ratings
47% below category average
Leadfwd
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions
5.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
4.1
5 Ratings
64% below category average
Leadfwd
9.1
2 Ratings
18% above category average
API
4.14 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
4.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals
00 Ratings
8.82 Ratings
Customizability
00 Ratings
7.92 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM
00 Ratings
9.62 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
2.9
5 Ratings
84% below category average
Leadfwd
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor
7.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
3.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Admin section
3.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Page templates
1.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Library of website themes
1.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
4.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publishing workflow
1.14 Ratings
00 Ratings
Form generator
3.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
1.9
5 Ratings
111% below category average
Leadfwd
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy
1.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
SEO support
2.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Bulk management
2.13 Ratings
00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions
2.14 Ratings
00 Ratings
Community / comment management
2.13 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
7.4
2 Ratings
4% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor
00 Ratings
7.02 Ratings
Dynamic content
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Landing pages
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
A/B testing
00 Ratings
3.22 Ratings
Mobile optimization
00 Ratings
6.22 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting
00 Ratings
9.62 Ratings
List management
00 Ratings
8.62 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences
00 Ratings
8.82 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
8.0
2 Ratings
1% above category average
Lead nurturing automation
00 Ratings
8.42 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading
00 Ratings
7.32 Ratings
Data quality management
00 Ratings
7.72 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks
00 Ratings
8.52 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Calendaring
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
7.5
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Social profile integration
00 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of HCL Digital Experience and Leadfwd
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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I think Inbox25 is a great fit for companies outgrowing lower-end, disconnected email marketing applications. Companies with a more formalized marketing organization that send a lot of emails (tens of thousands monthly or more) will be better served with a product like Inbox25 that is less complex, easier to use, and much more affordable (30% lower by our experience) from the larger marketing automation products on the market. Our company has 3 full-time marketing staff with over 100,000 contacts (with valid emails) that we target in various direct and drip email campaigns and Inbox25 fits our needs just fine. I suspect that we may outgrow the product eventually but I think it'll meet our needs just fine for many years to come.
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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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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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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Inbox25 is in a growth phase and has transformed their product pretty fast. With that comes an increased need to continually learn how to leverage new features.
Tutorials and product documentation exist but it is relatively minimal. They overcome this with personalized, one-on-one training that is recorded for future review using a project management platform.
Inbox25 has expanded beyond Sugar CRM to include Salesforce.com integration. I'm not sure if they plan to add integrations to other applications but they are positioned well for growth.
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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.
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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We have successfully moved cold suspects to leads and leads to opportunities, and opportunities to customers with Inbox25. We are just now starting to realize more value given that we've only recently started using the more advanced drip marketing and lead scoring features.
When we used the pay-as-you-go version we were paying just pennies per email and remained CAN-Spam Act compliant. It was harder to quantify the ROI then but it was apparent that email marketing was working and moving prospects from one sales stage to another. It was also very useful for re-engaging prospects and promoting products and services to customers.
Our total investment in the advanced edition is less $30,000 annually and we expect the ROI to be less than one year. It could have been sooner if we'd have been more thoughtful in our initial implementation.
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