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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WorkArea (formerly WebLinc) is an e-commerce platform and services provider for fast growing online retailers. Its technologies and strategic expertise empower enterprise level companies running global, omnichannel commerce operations, B2C or B2B. It is a VTEX brand since the early 2021 acquisition.
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
HCL Digital Experience
WorkArea
Security
Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
5 Ratings
47% below category average
WorkArea
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions
5.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
4.1
5 Ratings
64% below category average
WorkArea
-
Ratings
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 WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
2.9
5 Ratings
84% below category average
WorkArea
-
Ratings
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 WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
1.9
5 Ratings
111% below category average
WorkArea
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy
1.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
SEO support
2.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Bulk management
2.13 Ratings
00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions
2.14 Ratings
00 Ratings
Community / comment management
2.13 Ratings
00 Ratings
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of HCL Digital Experience and WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
WorkArea
4.4
1 Ratings
56% below category average
Product catalog & listings
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Product management
00 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Bulk product upload
00 Ratings
4.01 Ratings
Branding
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Mobile storefront
00 Ratings
2.01 Ratings
Product variations
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Website integration
00 Ratings
2.01 Ratings
Visual customization
00 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of HCL Digital Experience and WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
WorkArea
2.0
1 Ratings
117% below category average
Abandoned cart recovery
00 Ratings
1.01 Ratings
Checkout user experience
00 Ratings
3.01 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of HCL Digital Experience and WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
WorkArea
2.0
1 Ratings
123% below category average
eCommerce security
00 Ratings
2.01 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of HCL Digital Experience and WorkArea
Feature
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
WorkArea
4.0
1 Ratings
63% below category average
Promotions & discounts
00 Ratings
2.01 Ratings
Personalized recommendations
00 Ratings
4.01 Ratings
SEO
00 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of HCL Digital Experience and WorkArea
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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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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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We were never able to delete categories/subcategories. And because of this inability, it was often difficult navigating the back-end. If we accidentally deleted a category/subcategory, it would create a problem on the front end.
Creating discount codes was a nightmare. It was easy enough to create, but the text/description area was so sensitive and often had a mind of its own. This sensitivity created problems on the front end as well, ranging from incomplete text showing up to the products tiling all in one row. Also, there wasn't an easy way to create a "complex" discount code (complex defined as any code that wasn't a % off)
In general, it was very buggy. We were constantly opening tickets.
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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.
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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
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info