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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

    Maglr

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Maglr is a cloud-based content creation platform that helps brands and organisations to create and publish visual interactive stories, without having to write a single line of code. Used for corporate communication (e.g. annual reports, digital magazines), content marketing (e.g. infographics, campaign pages) and sales enablement (e.g. brochures & presentations). Maglr has developed two content editors: a user friendly drag-and-drop

    $220

    Block editor incl. template library

    RWS Tridion Sites

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ARWS Tridion Sites provides web content management capabilities, connecting people, processes, and information across teams, brands, and markets, to deliver impactful online experiences globally. RWS Tridion Sites' DPX platform enables the use of either traditional or headless publishing. It includes advanced features such as automated personalization, multilingual capabilities and Semantic AI. The BluePrinting® technology at the core of RWS Tridion Sites simplifies reuse and…N/A
    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceMaglrRWS Tridion Sites
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Maglr Business
    $220.00
    Block editor incl. template library
    Maglr Pro
    $380.00
    Block & Pro editor incl. templates + extra features
    Maglr Enterprise
    $1000.00
    Pro + add-on modules i.e. Presenter & Proposal
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL Digital ExperienceMaglrRWS Tridion Sites
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$220 including one userNo setup fee
    Additional Details—With Maglr you pay monthly or opt for an annual license and get an extra month for free. No complicated contracts, a monthly license can be canceled any time. A 14-day free trial is available.—
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    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceMaglrRWS Tridion Sites
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and Maglr and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    Maglr
    -
    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    9.0
    9 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and Maglr and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    Maglr
    -
    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    15% above category average
    API4.14 Ratings00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Maglr and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    Maglr
    -
    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    8.5
    8 Ratings
    8% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.04 Ratings00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness3.15 Ratings00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Admin section3.15 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Page templates1.15 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Library of website themes1.15 Ratings00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.04 Ratings00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Publishing workflow1.14 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Form generator3.02 Ratings00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of HCL Digital Experience and Maglr and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    Maglr
    -
    Ratings
    RWS Tridion Sites
    7.6
    8 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content taxonomy1.15 Ratings00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    SEO support2.15 Ratings00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Bulk management2.13 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions2.14 Ratings00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Community / comment management2.13 Ratings00 Ratings3.03 Ratings
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Maglr and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Maglr
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    RWS Tridion Sites
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of HCL Digital Experience and Maglr and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Maglr
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    RWS Tridion Sites
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of HCL Digital Experience and Maglr and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Maglr
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    RWS Tridion Sites
    -
    Ratings
    Content performance analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceMaglrRWS Tridion Sites
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.3
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceMaglrRWS Tridion Sites
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Maglr
    Maglr is suited for: 1. Thought Leadership - Blog Posts ∙Point of View Papers. ∙White Papers. ∙Articles for the
    Media. ∙Interviews with
    Business Leaders. ∙Diversity and
    Inclusion Stories. 2. Documentation Services - Product Documentation
    and Release Notes ∙User Guides ∙Configuration and
    Installation Guide


    Quick Start Guides. 3. Event-Based Collateral ∙Speeches - Emcee Scripts ∙Interview/Moderator
    Q&A. ∙Standees ∙Posters/Banners ∙Danglers ∙Flyers/Giveaways ∙Logos


    Creative Themes 4. Interactive Assets - Videos (Motion
    Graphics) ∙Interactive Web Pages ∙Podcasts ∙GIFs ∙Webcasts and Webinars 5. Short Content - Social Media Posts ∙Creatives: Images, GIFs, Short Videos ∙Company Profiles or Leaders’ Bios
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    Love the product and I really like how we use it for public sites. The only negative aspect is that it is just hard to find Tridion devs that understand the tool, grasp .net, react, and understand the blueprint, etc.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Maglr
    • Creation of Content Strategy.
    • Creating Editorial Calendar.
    • Creating Content Structure.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    • Makes it easy to spin up a new site quickly
    • Allows for numerous users to work on the same site without conflicting with each other's changes
    • Allows you to unpublish changes or revert to old versions if you make a mistake
    • Allows you to time publishing actions (for example, you can set it to happen overnight)
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Maglr
    • Creation of Marketing collateral.
    • Sales ennoblement pitches.
    • Pricing flexibility.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    • Tridion is complicated in enough ways that it makes it difficult to train new users. Therefore, we have to limit the number of people with access to the system since we have not yet implemented Workflow.
    • When something goes wrong (items fail to publish, or there is unexpected behavior with components), there is little explanation provided that would point us in the right direction to troubleshoot. As a result, content Authors and Editors have to frequently ask for IT assistance.
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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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    Maglr
    No answers on this topic
    RWS Group
    I am giving this a semi-high rating because we have already got Tridion up and running and we are still in the process of moving the sites over to Tridion. It is unlikely we will be moving things to a new CMS AGAIN in the near future as the cost to get Tridion was high.
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    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Maglr
    No answers on this topic
    RWS Group
    The editor user interface is very user friendly and in-site editing makes simple updates fast and easy. The extensibility of Tridion is a big plus and the ability to add our own options into the default Tridion interface helps us integrate with external systems. Finally, the user permissions and security system helps us deploy it within our large organization.
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    Support Rating
    HCLSoftware
    We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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    Maglr
    No answers on this topic
    RWS Group
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Maglr
    No answers on this topic
    RWS Group
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Maglr
    Maglr helped us by creating the content hub. 1. Getting dedicated content
    idealization, creation, and distribution engine that not only executes content
    strategies but also creates them and amplifies your brand voice. Powered by a
    team of content marketing experts, this is a one-stop for all your content
    needs. 2. Greater reach and stronger digital footprint with improved
    brand awareness.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    It is a nuclear missile compared to the other handguns and knives on the market today. But it also requires nuclear technicians and expertise that a handgun doesn't require. Do you need to decimate your competition and you have the investment capabilities necessary to put a nuclear missile into the sky? Then definitely do it. Especially if you need a very good multi-lingual blueprint provider like Tridion.
    Incentivized
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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)
    Incentivized
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    Maglr
    • Optimizing social media channels.
    • Deploying content marketing workflows.
    • Identifying the right distribution channels and platforms.
    Incentivized
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    RWS Group
    • SDL is a very complex system. Creating custom components by external vendors turned out to be expensive.
    • The learning curve is very slow, so training takes a lot of time and cost.
    • The revamped corporate site looks clean, modern, and is mobile-friendly.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

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