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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

    SAP Business One

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Business One
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Limited
    $99.00
    per month
    Starter
    $110.00
    per month
    Pro
    $132.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Business One
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Business One
    Considered Both Products
    HCLSoftware
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Business One
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    SAP Business One
    9.9
    44 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings10.043 Ratings
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.736 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    SAP Business One
    -
    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 SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    SAP Business One
    -
    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 SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    SAP Business One
    -
    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
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.9
    12 Ratings
    28% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.9
    40 Ratings
    27% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings9.738 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings10.037 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.0
    45 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.940 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.345 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.941 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    5.9
    46 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings9.846 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings9.928 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.831 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings9.638 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings9.436 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.641 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.4
    45 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.745 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings9.931 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings10.041 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.1
    43 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Pricing00 Ratings9.941 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings9.943 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings9.724 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold00 Ratings9.742 Ratings
    Order Orchestration00 Ratings10.033 Ratings
    Subledger and Financial Process
    Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    7.4
    39 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Billing Management00 Ratings9.734 Ratings
    Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings10.030 Ratings
    Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings9.928 Ratings
    Period Close00 Ratings9.535 Ratings
    Project Financial Management
    Comparison of Project Financial Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    7.0
    19 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings7.017 Ratings
    Project Costing00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
    Cost Capture00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
    Capital Project Management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
    Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
    Project Execution Management
    Comparison of Project Execution Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.1
    17 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings9.612 Ratings
    Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings9.810 Ratings
    Grants Management
    Comparison of Grants Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.4
    16 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Procurement
    Comparison of Procurement features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Contract Authoring00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Contract Repository00 Ratings9.211 Ratings
    Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings9.615 Ratings
    Supplier Management00 Ratings9.614 Ratings
    Risk Management
    Comparison of Risk Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Risk Repository00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Control Management00 Ratings9.110 Ratings
    Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings9.19 Ratings
    Issue Detection00 Ratings9.110 Ratings
    Remediation and Certification00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Logistics
    Comparison of Logistics features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.1
    25 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings9.515 Ratings
    Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings9.615 Ratings
    Fulfillment Management00 Ratings9.718 Ratings
    Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings9.816 Ratings
    Manufacturing
    Comparison of Manufacturing features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.2
    21 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Production Process Design00 Ratings9.719 Ratings
    Production Management00 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Configuration Management00 Ratings9.715 Ratings
    Work Execution00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Supply Chain
    Comparison of Supply Chain features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.0
    27 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings8.625 Ratings
    Inventory Planning00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.121 Ratings
    Product Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Business One
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.6
    19 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Proposal Management00 Ratings8.115 Ratings
    Product Master Data Management00 Ratings9.317 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Business One
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (51 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    4.6
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    2.8
    (24 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Business One
    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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    SAP
    SAP Business One would be more useful if it contained tools to acommodate the growing need of online sales. A more complete shipping module which handles tracking numbers with the common couriers would be great. A built in warehouse management system would be great designed to be used with barcode scanners
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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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    SAP
    • SAP Business One is more suitable for small and medium scale enterprises
    • SAP Business One is : analytics, mobile technologies, cloud technologies
    • SAP Business One has exceptional performance in handling business functions such as purchasing and operations and customer relationship management
    • An important key features of SAP Business One is Reporting and Analytics.
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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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    SAP
    • Following a bench mark process - this seems contradicting to flexibility however we have wished we could follow more of an industry benchmark. Our challenge as a small company has been knowing how to properly use the system. We have discovered that we have set up the system wrong based and are using it improperly which has cause a lot work to correct.
    • Better live reporting options - current we are on prem SQL. Yes SAP is moving to HANA however smaller companies like ourselves are not ready for that. We need to be able to maintain our existing SQL DB. We also have a demand for live BI Reporting. It has been difficult to do this with our current set up.
    • Error handling - have found it very difficult to troubleshoot. Errors are not always clear and answers are hard to find.
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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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    SAP
    As I said before, it is a first level tool, well developed, and with very strong development support, although the learning curve, its implementation, the cost-benefit ratio, the price and the user experience is not the most suitable for small and medium-sized companies. It is a company with extensive experience, market positioning, technical support and expanded use
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    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    SAP
    I would like to give 8 out of 10 rating for SAP Business One because SAP Business One is a good choice for the mostly used business management solutions for the small and medium-sized companies. SAP Business One can help in optimizing the existing business process and enables streamline business processes for the daily activities for all users across the entire organization. The importance realization of SAP Business One implementation is based on the selection of the good reputation partner and its approach for the entire implementation. SAP Business One is a user-friendly and easy to use Enterprise system that the organization can benefit its features and functionalities by utilizing it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The SAP Business One software is up and running every time
    you need it as it was planned. In more than 6 years that we have been
    using the product, it has never been unavailable and if it ever was, it was because of a planned maintenance window scheduled in the company.
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    Performance
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    SAP Business One performance depends mostly on the speed of your internal servers, should you have the solution on premise as we do. Sometimes the system tends to be a little slower for some users when others are executing really big reports of performing some batch loads, but generally, the performance is acceptable to all the users.
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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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    SAP
    I rate my experience with SAP Business One's support team as excellent (10). They are easy to contact and effortless to work with on any issue or concern. I like the support SAP provides for any of their products. SAP has a great backing and I would recommend them to any of my colleagues.
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    In-Person Training
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The training I get was a consultant level training, so it's basically a 6 weeks training covering every aspect and every module of the system. It covered most common use cases and exercise training so you can get along with the software, as well as examples so there culd be a better understanding.
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    Online Training
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Over the past two years SAP has added a great deal of new SAP Business One on-line training for version 9.0 and 9.1. Most of the training is very strong, but some is difficult to understand and follow. Additionally, SAP still has a few holes in their on-line training around Production, Bill-of-Materials, MRP and Service.
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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    SAP
    These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
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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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    SAP
    SAP provides the most robust solution, with modules available for all department managers and even options for customization according to the company's special needs. We especially used the Crystal reports options to provide reports for each module. Overall, even if it's not the least expensive option, it has the best value for money.
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    Scalability
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    For most small businesses, the only way you outgrow SAP Business One is if the nature of your business changes radically. Going from 1 to 50 users is quite easy with SAP B1. Going beyond 50 may require moving to the Hana SAP B1 platform to maintain or improve performance, but the path is there.
    Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.
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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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    SAP
    • Employee efficiency has definitely increased with SAP Business One. This is attributed in a lot of ways to information visibility. Our employees are able to gather the data they need, quickly, and effectively.
    • Identifying inconsistencies in pricing has also been accomplished through use of reporting off individual tables. Previously, we weren't able to access our data in such a way as to enable us to write custom reports in-house.
    • We have also benefited greatly from having a single source of all business information. We utilize SAP Business One exclusively in-house. All documentation is attached to specific orders and Business Partners, as well as serialized equipment that has been sold.
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