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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

    Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform

    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    TerminalFour Site Manager is the principal product from the global software company of the same name, a content management system available for local-hosting or cloud-based, primarily targeted at educational institutions, government and international bodies, but also retail and financial services organizations.N/A
    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceTerminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL Digital ExperienceTerminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$15,000 organisation per year
    Additional Details—Generally the initial cost is between $15,000 to $100,000 with ongoing support and hosting subsequent years.
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    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceTerminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    44% below category average
    API4.14 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    11% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.04 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness3.15 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Admin section3.15 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Page templates1.15 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Library of website themes1.15 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.04 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Publishing workflow1.14 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Form generator3.02 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of HCL Digital Experience and Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    6.7
    2 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Content taxonomy1.15 Ratings7.42 Ratings
    SEO support2.15 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Bulk management2.13 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions2.14 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management2.13 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceTerminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    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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    Terminalfour
    It's an extremely flexible solution. It can be a nightmare to work with if not properly planned out or fantastic if well thought out. If you have a team and an application owner with a plan it's a great option.
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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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    Terminalfour
    • Ease of use
    • Nice interface
    • Web-based site manager
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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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    Terminalfour
    • It can be a bit buggy with media library management.
    • The html editor can act pretty wonky sometimes with the html it translates things into.
    • The navigation builder tool is pretty confusing.
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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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    Terminalfour
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Terminalfour
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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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    Terminalfour
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Terminalfour
    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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    Terminalfour
    I was not part of the decision process, but I was very happy with the choice to use TerminalFour.
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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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    Terminalfour
    • Increased employee efficiency.
    • Happier internal customers because changes are much easier than they used to be and we can often empower them to make their own changes to their websites.
    • For our application owner it's become a huge project that consumes all of his time. Not ideal but it's working for now. Knowledge sharing the more intricate pieces can be really difficult.
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    ScreenShots

    Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of Direct Edit with AnalyticsScreenshot of Login ScreenScreenshot of Media LibraryScreenshot of Form BuilderScreenshot of Form Results ReportScreenshot of Direct Edit