Compendium (discontinued) vs. HCL Digital Experience

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Compendium (discontinued)
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Formerly Oracle Content Marketing of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, Compendium was a content marketing solution to create and distribute compelling content across multiple channels to a targeted audience. Users could plan, produce, and deliver content across multiple personas and channels throughout the customer life cycle. Oracle acquired the product in 2013. A legacy product, Compendium is now end of sale.N/A
HCL Digital Experience
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
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).N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
7.2
6 Ratings
11% below category average
HCL Digital Experience
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Ratings
Ideation6.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval workflows9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Content collaboration7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Content calendar7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production5.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
6.6
6 Ratings
20% below category average
HCL Digital Experience
-
Ratings
Content hub6.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Forms / Gated content6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Embedded CTAs7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Content distribution7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Content promotion6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Content automation6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
6.6
6 Ratings
16% below category average
HCL Digital Experience
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Ratings
Audience profiling and targeting6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Content performance analytics8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard6.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitive analytics6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
5 Ratings
46% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
4.1
5 Ratings
65% below category average
API00 Ratings4.14 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings4.15 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
2.9
5 Ratings
89% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings1.14 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
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Ratings
HCL Digital Experience
1.9
5 Ratings
115% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings1.15 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings2.15 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings2.13 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings2.14 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings2.13 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Vyond
Vyond
Score 8.7 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Tridion
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
(6 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
5.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Compendium (discontinued)HCL Digital Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Oracle is great for a very basic blog. The look of ours was designed and built on the back end/code side, so I'm not sure if there are a lot of clean, modern templates like you see in a lot of blogs today to choose from or not. It has been great having a number of authors who can write content directly in the platform and then submit it to our content managers for scheduling and publishing. I think the biggest issue people may have with it is the look of the interface. It needs an update.
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HCL Technologies
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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Pros
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  • Permission levels are also nice so a random user cannot just post without a certain level of access.
  • I also like being able to update the code if necessary.
  • It's easy for users to access and write, and there's a nice workflow to review any content before it gets published.
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HCL Technologies
  • 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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Cons
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  • Templates are a good thing, but hard to set up and require a lot of work. (Other Oracle tools are more user-friendly when it comes to template design.)
  • While they did a good job updating the interface, I still believe more work can be done to make it more user-friendly.
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HCL Technologies
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
Easy to use, and supporting several permutations, the CM suite is an excellent solution for a mid to large size business. It's meant to be used by a team, and the functionality can work across websites and landing pages. There's also the high benefit of translation management, providing support for localized products.
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HCL Technologies
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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Usability
Discontinued Products
It has never been down since we have used this software.
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HCL Technologies
New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
To be perfectly honest, every one of my concerns and problems has been handled by the support team in a very timely manner. If they could not fix my issue they assured me it be addressed in future updates.
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HCL Technologies
We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
Don't forget about customer service once you have a closed the sale with a customer. Oracle seemed to not care about our needs/timeline after we gave them our Purchase Order
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HCL Technologies
Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
While OCM was a lot more money, they were able to prove to us that they are a much better solution to use and worth the extra cost. The reporting, capabilities along with the analytics that was easy to download was a big discussion factor for us.
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HCL Technologies
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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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Everyone had their own plan and executed them without taking into consideration the impact of another ongoing project. Compendium has created communication between teams that were not communicating before.
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HCL Technologies
  • 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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ScreenShots

Compendium (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Content marketers can see every aspect of their content production process at a glance, which is essential for a successful content marketing strategy.Screenshot of Leveraging Oracle Content Marketing’s Business Units feature results in improved marketing alignment by empowering marketing leaders to view one unified content calendar, content repository, and analytics dashboard across the entire organization. Corporate executives can drill down on content creation, distribution, and impact for individual business units in order to make necessary changes to drive success at the divisional level.