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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

    OpenText Content Suite Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe OpenText Content Suite Platform oversees the lifecycle management of information across the enterprise from capture through archiving and disposition. With agile information governance to address the latest data governance and data privacy best practices, the vendor states their Content Suite reduces risk and empowers organizations to focus on using information to drive strategic growth and productivity.N/A

    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
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Multiple Products
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceOpenText Content Suite PlatformRWS Tridion Sites
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and OpenText Content Suite Platform and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    OpenText Content Suite Platform
    -
    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 OpenText Content Suite Platform and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    OpenText Content Suite Platform
    -
    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 OpenText Content Suite Platform and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    OpenText Content Suite Platform
    -
    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 OpenText Content Suite Platform and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    OpenText Content Suite Platform
    -
    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
    Enterprise Content Management
    Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of HCL Digital Experience and OpenText Content Suite Platform and RWS Tridion Sites
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Content Suite Platform
    8.4
    7 Ratings
    4% above category average
    RWS Tridion Sites
    -
    Ratings
    Content capture & imaging00 Ratings9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Records management00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content search & retrieval00 Ratings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content publishing & creation00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated workflows00 Ratings9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Artificial intelligence00 Ratings7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support00 Ratings9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceOpenText Content Suite PlatformRWS Tridion Sites
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.9
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.3
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceOpenText Content Suite PlatformRWS 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.
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    OpenText
    Great for content management and records even for organizations whose staff are not much experienced in the technical backgrounds as it's easy to use and no previous knowledge on HTML is required. It is great for storing invoices and payment proofs and for organizations dealing with global clients for general use documents.
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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.
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    OpenText
    • Document Management is being done well since it allows you to put in a corporate folder structure that applies to the business unit you currently work in.
    • Records Management works well in this organisation as it allows you to classify the document according to the file plan, as well as manage it according to the retention schedule for tat file plan.
    • The ability to collaborate on files works really well. You can share with users within your group, as well as allow other users access to the files for either read access to read/write access.
    • Access control of the folder and even individual files allows you to ensure only necessary people can have the right type of access. This is especially welcome in the government environment where document management is of utmost importance.
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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)
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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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    OpenText
    • The user interface and configurability of that interface lack a lot of flexibility and modern tools.
    • There needs to be stronger and more powerful integration to electronic forms and workflow capabilities which are core to modern ECM.
    • Management of audit and content history needs to be modernized and made more dynamic and sustainable.
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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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    OpenText
    The staff is comfortable with it and I doubt they'd change at this point.
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    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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    OpenText
    Strong for Core Content and Records Management
    Effective for Non-Technical Users (with the right configuration)
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    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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    Reliability and Availability
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    I never had any issues with access internally or via VPN. But, the response via VPN, was a bit slow.
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    RWS Group
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    Performance
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    • I used OpenText nearly every day and I never had any performance issues that I can recall. That said, it's not terribly fast either.
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    RWS Group
    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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    OpenText
    OpenText has an outstanding support and knowledge base. All problems which couldn't be solved by us (high complexity cases) were promptly resolved and the resolution also shared with us.
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    RWS Group
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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    OpenText
    No, it's pretty easy to implement and use.
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    RWS Group
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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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    OpenText
    Having used OpenText Content Suite for a long time, I can say it stands the competition. It offers many versions which is unlike many products in its category. Also, while it is not affordable, I believe the cost is justified considering what a business can achieve with this software.
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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.
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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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    OpenText
    • With OpenText Content Suite, we can easily keep documents safe
    • Document collaboration is easy with OpenText
    • We can easily handle invoicing and automation thanks to features such as content capture and imaging.
    • With OpenText Content Suite, there is better file sync and archiving
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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.
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