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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Digital Commerce

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Digital Commerce is an e-commerce platform that is designed to deliver omni-channel shopping experiences, including mobile, social, and in-store. In June 2019, IBM Digital Commerce was acquired by HCL Technologies.N/A

    Vercel

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/A​Vercel (made by the creators of Next.js) is a cloud platform for static sites and Serverless Functions for a workflow. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and requires no supervision, all with no configuration. The platform aims to enable frontend teams to work while combining the best developer experience with a focus on end-user performance.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Digital CommerceVercel
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Digital CommerceVercel
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IBM Digital CommerceVercel
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of IBM Digital Commerce and Vercel
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Vercel
    -
    Ratings
    Product catalog & listings8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    CMS4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of IBM Digital Commerce and Vercel
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    6.0
    3 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Vercel
    -
    Ratings
    Abandoned cart recovery6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of IBM Digital Commerce and Vercel
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    6.0
    3 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Vercel
    -
    Ratings
    eCommerce security6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of IBM Digital Commerce and Vercel
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Vercel
    -
    Ratings
    Promotions & discounts7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of IBM Digital Commerce and Vercel
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    6.2
    3 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Vercel
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-site management8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order processing5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory management6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of IBM Digital Commerce and Vercel
    Feature
    IBM Digital Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Vercel
    7.9
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.83 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Digital CommerceVercel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Digital CommerceVercel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    I think WebSphere Commerce is well suited for customers looking to sell products online that need robustness and scalability as a priority. It provides a complete order cycle out of the box, or you can integrate with your existing order fulfillment. Online shopping models like digital subscriptions or a marketplace are not well suited as it requires a lot of customization
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    VERCEL
    I've had nothing but positive experiences with Vercel, and while their business offering is great, it's also worth touching on their free plan. Their free plan allows me to tinker with web development in my free time without having to worry about paying for a costly linux box. I just link a GitHub repository and it's done!
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Websphere commerce provides efficient contract based pricing. Contract based pricing greatly helps in handling prices for different business
    • Catalog filtering is one other strength of websphere commerce, as it helps to filter the show only those products that the customer is entitled to
    • Extended site model is one other strength of WCS as it greatly helps in having multiple e-commerce sites for different demographics, for branding etc
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    VERCEL
    • Deploy Site
    • Integrate Giithub
    • Functions to use at scale and free
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    Cons
    IBM
    • The e-Marketing spots contain content associated with marketing activities to target customer segment - needs some improvement. The algorithm to set up the priority of each of the Web Activity with in eMarketing spot is little bit confusing.
    • The catalog load can be simplified.
    • WebSphere Commerce is a huge application - someone needs to spend at least 5-6 years to learn about the whole application.
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    VERCEL
    • Interface Revamp
    • Cost reduction
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    The scalability and various configurations of the product allows for a wide range of e-commerce site features. It provides a storefront to begin with so it helps with speeding up development.
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    VERCEL
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    VERCEL
    Vercel's good usability and developer experience make me happy to visit their website when I need to configure my deployments. It's very easy to navigate, configure, and manage my projects, and the developer experience is so seamless that I don't have to think much when I push changes to git.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Digital Commerce was a lot more customizable and had a good engine for us to make enhancements. We were not locked down to certain integrations and we were able to utilize a lot of the features outside of the box vs using a prescribed set of features and functionality that other tools would force us to use
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    VERCEL
    Vercel beats Heroku and DigitalOcean by a mile with pricing. Since Vercel uses serverless infrastructure, we don't pay for servers that don't get used, which is great for smaller platforms. Vercel Support is also very quick to respond, unlike DigitalOcean who took a while to get back to me after they didn't honor platform credits they sent me.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • For our clients in the apparel industry, the flexibility that WCS provides to scale up really helped their online business to grow tremendously.
    • Our client in the restaurant industry can't quite leverage what WCS has to offer though as it doesn't really fit their shopping model.
    • Another positive impact is that it allows our clients to streamline their commerce system in interacting with their backend.
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    VERCEL
    • Reduced amount of staff time required to deploy applications and websites
    • Improved staging environments by automatically deploying changes on pull requests
    • Allowed for collaboration from members of the open source community with strong git integrations
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