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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

    SALESmanago

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    SALESmanago is a Customer Engagement Platform for eCommerce marketing teams, including AI-driven solutions that boast users among 2000+ mid-size businesses in 50 countries, as well as global brands such as Vodafone, Lacoste, New Balance and Victoria’s Secret. SALESmanago aims to improve eCommerce KPIs by leveraging three principles: (1) Customer Intimacy to create authentic customer relationships based on Zero and First Party Data; (2) Precision Execution to provide superior…

    $499

    per month

    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceSALESmanago
    Editions & Modules
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    Essential
    $499
    per month
    Professional
    $1,999
    per month
    Enterprise
    $4,000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL Digital ExperienceSALESmanago
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Community Pulse
    HCL Digital ExperienceSALESmanago
    Considered Both Products
    HCLSoftware
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceSALESmanago
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    SALESmanago
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    SALESmanago
    7.0
    31 Ratings
    9% below category average
    API4.14 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.025 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings2.414 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.112 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    SALESmanago
    -
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    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 SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    SALESmanago
    -
    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
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SALESmanago
    8.2
    35 Ratings
    6% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.835 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings8.932 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.931 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings5.027 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.131 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.931 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.927 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SALESmanago
    8.2
    33 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings8.830 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.024 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SALESmanago
    4.3
    25 Ratings
    55% below category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings6.223 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings2.521 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SALESmanago
    2.6
    18 Ratings
    98% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings2.517 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings2.617 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of HCL Digital Experience and SALESmanago
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SALESmanago
    7.3
    35 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.934 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.128 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceSALESmanago
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.9
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceSALESmanago
    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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    SALESmanago
    I find SalesManago to be a good tool for email marketing and automation processes. They live chat service allows fast and direct communication with customers. Website personalisation (tools like pop-ups and browser notification) work fine but I'd like to have a bit more personalisation options to be avalaible to users.
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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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    SALESmanago
    • Segmentation - you can segment people in many ways (e.g using tags, rfm matrices, sales funnels, dynamic segments).
    • Automation flows - using workflows, automation rules, and website automations you can automatically do marketing actions after a trigger and in specific conditions. You have a lot of events, conditions and actions
    • Product Recommendations - this tool allow you to recommend products on your website. Maybe it's not quick to prepare it but the results at the end are awesome
    • RFM Segmentation - this is a great tool to segment and reach people according to their RFM profile
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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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    SALESmanago
    • Their expansion into the US has not been very successful, and if you are a West Coast customer want training, be prepared to get up at 4 a.m.
    • While their functionality is comparable to competing products there is nothing particularly unique to what they offer
    • Their instructional literature was obviously not produced by people for who English is a first language and they are not particularly English proficient.
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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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    SALESmanago
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    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    SALESmanago
    SALESmanago is a pretty big tool (with lots of features), but if you know the principles - everything is easy to find, and easy to understand. Of course there are some settings or funcionalities which needs to be updated but still using SALESmanago is totaly different experience than 5-6 years ago (in a good way)
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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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    SALESmanago
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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    SALESmanago
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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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    SALESmanago
    I use many marketing automation tools, and I choose the right tool for the right job. I like to use SALESmanago because of its great support and very good price for the product.
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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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    SALESmanago
    • The automated system has improved advertising campaigns.
    • We noticed an increase in customer activity.
    • We received valuable data about your users.
    Incentivized
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