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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

    Zerys

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AZerys is a content marketing platform for advertisers and agencies which contains workflow controls, calendaring with email alerts, as well as content strategy tools and action plans. Zerys also features a collaboration space and role assignment for teams, as well as a Content Services Marketplace should outside help for content generation be required, with budgeting features.N/A
    Pricing
    HCL Digital ExperienceZerys
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    HCL Digital ExperienceZerys
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    HCL Digital ExperienceZerys
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of HCL Digital Experience and Zerys
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    5.0
    5 Ratings
    47% below category average
    Zerys
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    Role-based user permissions5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of HCL Digital Experience and Zerys
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    4.1
    5 Ratings
    64% below category average
    Zerys
    -
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    API4.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language4.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Zerys
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    2.9
    5 Ratings
    84% below category average
    Zerys
    -
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    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 Zerys
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    1.9
    5 Ratings
    111% below category average
    Zerys
    -
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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
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of HCL Digital Experience and Zerys
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Zerys
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Ideation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Approval workflows00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Content collaboration00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Content calendar00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of HCL Digital Experience and Zerys
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Zerys
    7.5
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Content hub00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Content distribution00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Content promotion00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of HCL Digital Experience and Zerys
    Feature
    HCL Digital Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Zerys
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Audience profiling and targeting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content performance analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Competitive analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HCL Digital ExperienceZerys
    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Contently
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score7.9 out of 10
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HCL Digital ExperienceZerys
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HCL Digital ExperienceZerys
    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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    Zerys
    I sold a few inbound marketing contracts with the expectation that I could find writers for the project on Zerys. We were looking for good writers that can understand the tone and branding of our business and after a few trials with some of the writers at Zerys, I finally found the one that understood us and then created amazing content in no time.
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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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    Zerys
    • The customization options for the written pieces you can request are endless and thorough.
    • Some writers are very fast and effective, making our link-building process quicker.
    • It provides notifications along every step of the writing process so that you always know where in the pipeline your content is.
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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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    Zerys
    • There are instances where the writers don't understand the article to be written and don't give you the content you are looking for.
    • The auto reporting feature needs some work. Too many email alerts and no option to change that.
    • Hard to find good writers. Often writers only loosely follow directions so you end up reworking their content anyway.
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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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    Zerys
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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    Zerys
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    HCLSoftware
    We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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    Zerys
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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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    Zerys
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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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    Zerys
    Access to many freelancer writers covering a wide range of topics and the relative ease with which you can manage the writing and editing process with a freelancer writer is good. I believe Zerys has acquired a talented group of writers that are well-versed in a diverse number of topics. Zerys is reliable, and the customer service response is fast, which I greatly appreciate. I do not believe Zerys' interface is as simple as it could be, however.
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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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    Zerys
    • Zerys has allowed us to grow our linkbuilding campaigns much more quickly than we would if we tried to create all of the content in-house.
    • We save so much time hiring outside writers to write content rather than writing it ourselves.
    • We are able to take on more projects than ever because we can rely on Zerys' writers to get things done on time.
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