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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 Engagement Cloud

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Engagement Cloud (formerly SAP Emarsys) helps organizations power unique customer engagement experiences by connecting real-time customer insights with the operational signals that run the business.N/A
    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Engagement Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Engagement Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Engagement Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    HCLSoftware
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Engagement Cloud
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    7.0
    7 Ratings
    9% below category average
    API4.14 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings6.07 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    -
    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 Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    -
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    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 SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    6.5
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings4.07 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.07 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings6.38 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings4.38 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    6.5
    5 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of HCL Digital Experience and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    6.9
    8 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.78 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.07 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Engagement Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Engagement Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceSAP Engagement Cloud
    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
    Emarsys is well suited for any company with an established list of contacts and an interest in email marketing. It's easy to manage, scalable, and has plenty of customization features to make your emails your own. If you're ever stuck, the responsive customer service team will help you out. I recommend Emarsys for medium to large size companies.
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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
    • It has the ability to reach maximum market chains.
    • It helps to keep our customer’s data confidential in any means.
    • It encourages one-to-one customer engagement which has helped us developing more trust in our customers.
    • It is targeting the required and interested audience for the organization.
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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
    • The email and content builder is significantly worse than other email marketing platforms I've used
    • Emails campaigns cannot be used in more than one automation flow
    • Amount of emails collected and being sent for smart insight are inaccurate
    • I've rarely completed a task without some type of user interface error
    • Customer service mostly directs you to help center on website
    • You have to pay extra for training
    • You have to pay extra for reporting in which the system cannot provide
    • Lengthy contract with a high price tag
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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
    We have no intention of changing Emarsys
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    SAP
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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
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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    SAP
    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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    SAP
    Emarsys is the email specialist service giver for our whole association. We use it to send custom and mass messages to our clients across three distinct business divisions. Email advertising is one of our greatest income driving channels due to focusing on limitations from deals regions. We can arrive at our clients through email with pertinent data and advancements, all driving income for the business. I have not used any other product marketing automation services.
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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
    • From proficient and fast information assortment and converging to changing crude data into significant experiences, Emarsys gives you an answer that allows you to associate with your clients at an extremely close to home level and utilize that to additionally develop your business.
    • Reliable and giving cost effective services.
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