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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Lotame

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ALotame is the flagship data management platform (DMP) from Lotame Solutions in Columbia, Maryland, billed as a cross-screen DMP that leverages "second-party" data (i.e. first-party data acquired via strategic partners).N/A
    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceLotame
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL Digital ExperienceLotame
    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
    HCL Digital ExperienceLotame
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    Lotame
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    Lotame
    -
    Ratings
    API4.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    Lotame
    -
    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 HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    Lotame
    -
    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
    Data Collection
    Comparison of Data Collection features of HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Lotame
    6.3
    8 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Collection of first-party data00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Collection of third-party data00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Access to Third-party Data Providers00 Ratings4.08 Ratings
    Data Classification
    Comparison of Data Classification features of HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Lotame
    7.7
    8 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Audience taxonomy00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Tag Management00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Data Analysis Dashboard00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Lotame
    6.0
    7 Ratings
    28% below category average
    Data Transfer00 Ratings5.06 Ratings
    DSP integration00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    DMP Analytics
    Comparison of DMP Analytics features of HCL Digital Experience and Lotame
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Lotame
    6.5
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Campaign Analytics00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    Audience Analytics00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HCL Digital ExperienceLotame
    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Adobe Audience Manager
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Adobe Audience Manager
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceLotame
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceLotame
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Lotame
    Well suited for advertising business. Has a lot of links to all relevant technologies. It is also a great platform if you want to buy or sell data and look for quality here. But you need a team which knows how to handle data. Less appropriate when you expect a fully managed service.
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    Pros
    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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    Lotame
    • Its ability to show different affinities of audience segments
    • Creating and customizing audience segments
    • Great reporting features to help learn more about audience segments and media performance
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    Cons
    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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    Lotame
    • So far we haven't encountered too many "needs improvement" pain points with Lotame - if we've had a problem so far it's been more a matter of needing to learn that particular action than any fault of Lotame.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Lotame
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Lotame
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    HCLSoftware
    We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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    Lotame
    Lotame has been an excellent partner with MMP
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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Lotame
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Lotame
    There are alternatives in the market - Visual DNA, Bluekai/Oracle/ Adobe Audience Manager, Krux. They all offer a similar offering, however, I prefer the easy UI which is very intuitive even for beginners to the DMP world.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Lotame
    • Helped us increase data revenue via their unbranded exchange.
    • Campaign and audience reporting is used to sales discussions to justify increased spend post trial campaigns.
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