HCL 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).
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TraceLink
Score8 out of 10
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TraceLink in North Reading offers a digital supply chain network focused on the needs of pharmaceutical entities and life sciences, featuring applications emphasizing track and trace, government compliance, and product serialization. Their solution helps users track network partner information and relationships, as well as product information.
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Features
HCL Digital Experience
TraceLink
Security
Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and TraceLink
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
5 Ratings
47% below category average
TraceLink
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions
5.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and TraceLink
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
4.1
5 Ratings
64% below category average
TraceLink
-
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API
4.14 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
4.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and TraceLink
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
2.9
5 Ratings
84% below category average
TraceLink
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WYSIWYG editor
7.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
3.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Admin section
3.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Page templates
1.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Library of website themes
1.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
4.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publishing workflow
1.14 Ratings
00 Ratings
Form generator
3.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of HCL Digital Experience and TraceLink
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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Our organization supply chain relies of a vast number of manufacturing organizations and warehouse companies , TraceLink's huge pre existing network partners allows us to onboard them in weeks rather than wasting time connecting them one by one. TraceLink is not suitable for small companies, it is not logical for small volume companies to use such a big enterprise level software and get burden of setup and operational costs.
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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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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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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.
The reason of giving this rating is that the TraceLink system is a bit complex to understand for non technical ware house workers. Navigating through the different modules is a bit rigid. It requires extensive training to learn the workflows or resolve errors. Also the UI is lacking the intuitive features that modern web applications have.
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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
TraceLink differentiate itself through network volume rather than internal software design.It has the ability to eliminate specialized b2b integration projects. Ultimately, TraceLink was selected because our organization required building standalone data bridges to a vast network of suppliers, otherwise it would have delayed compliance deadlines and incurred huge IT consulting budget.
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TraceLink maintains an active coud architecture with minimal to zero downtime, it helps huge number of products shipping out of production without any blocking from the inventory.
TraceLink helps in keeping the regulatory compliance up to date and prevent disruption in work due to regulatory compliance failures
Implementing TraceLink in an organization incurs additional implementation budgets, involving IT professionals to integrate the it with the internal ERP software.
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