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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ServiceNow App Engine

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AServiceNow App Engine is a low-code development environment for building workflow-oriented business applications on the ServiceNow AI Platform. It is used by citizen developers, application developers, and platform administrators to create request-management, case-management, operations, approval, and departmental applications that share ServiceNow’s data, security, automation, and user-experience framework.N/A

    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Sitecore Experience Platform (Sitecore XP) is a digital experience platform used to build websites and create customer experiences online. The solution boasts fast content authoring, built-in personalization features, testing and other optimizations, as well as analytics and marketing features.N/A
    Pricing
    ServiceNow App EngineSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ServiceNow App EngineSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    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
    ServiceNow App EngineSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Considered Both Products
    ServiceNow
    No answer on this topic
    Sitecore
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    ServiceNow App EngineSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of ServiceNow App Engine and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    8.2
    12 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Visual Modeling7.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Security8.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform User Management8.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reusability8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Scalability8.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of ServiceNow App Engine and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.9
    38 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.939 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of ServiceNow App Engine and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.8
    35 Ratings
    20% above category average
    API00 Ratings9.935 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.833 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of ServiceNow App Engine and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.2
    38 Ratings
    24% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.138 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.537 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings9.638 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings9.836 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings8.223 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.837 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings9.836 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of ServiceNow App Engine and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.4
    37 Ratings
    33% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings9.736 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings9.734 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings9.632 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.535 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.533 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of ServiceNow App Engine and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    7.6
    17 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings7.817 Ratings
    Test reporting00 Ratings7.518 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis00 Ratings7.318 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of ServiceNow App Engine and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Campaign management00 Ratings8.721 Ratings
    Cloud enablement00 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Content aggregation00 Ratings8.320 Ratings
    Content classification00 Ratings8.720 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization00 Ratings7.920 Ratings
    Customer data analytics00 Ratings7.319 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations00 Ratings7.520 Ratings
    Multi-website management00 Ratings8.919 Ratings
    Digital asset management00 Ratings8.519 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management00 Ratings8.119 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ServiceNow App EngineSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    8.7
    (50 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ServiceNow App EngineSitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ServiceNow
    I suggest that people in ServiceNow start by building apps in App Engine through learning plans on the ServiceNow Developer site. It is a very guided process, and it is fun to do. Newcomers in ServiceNow can learn a lot about configuring tables, fields, behavior of fields, roles, Flows, UX, and many more. App Engine tends to make development work simpler and faster to ship. However, it can be a difficult concept for people new to ServiceNow to understand scoped applications. So there should be a brief on the App Engine homepage that mentions what can be built and includes a link to learn more about scoped apps.
    Incentivized
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    Sitecore
    Sitecore offers Content Hub with Product Content Management and Content Management Platform. The Digital Experience Platform and Content Hub can both host structured content and publish the finalized version to Experience Edge. Both platforms offer different ways to manage content. During a technical and business evaluation, the evaluation panel must understand the difference between a Content Modelling focused approach, or a layout management focused approach. Sitecore Digital Experience Platform is also best not to be used to host many files and images in the Media Library. That responsibility should be offloaded to a digital asset management company like Sitecore Content Hub DAM. The technology evaluation panel must also understand how to work with a Headless CMS, where the HEAD needs to be hosted, and the costs associated with the HEAD. Composable DXP is fantastic, but everyone must understand the various cost components. Marketers and the data team will need to go into the CDP and Personalize the platform with an excellent understanding of how a composable "installation" works. All the Martech vendors have similar challenges that data and development teams need to work through with a full experience. Any CDP/analytics platform will, at some stage, require further data enrichment from other sources. Understanding the Sitecore Search features and limitations is also essential.
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    Pros
    ServiceNow
    • App Engine can be used by non-developers to create Applications on the go, without coding.
    • App Engine has all the important aspects of the application available for adding or editing within a single record. Hence, it is easier to modify.
    • App Engine has a delegated development option which can be granted to specific developers or groups to manage a specific area for Scoped App Development without giving admin rights.
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    Sitecore
    • Comprehensive Solution: Sitecore offers a fully integrated suite of products that cover the full spectrum of DXP capabilities, including search, personalization experimentation and more, delivering a complete composable DXP solution for customers.
    • Beyond Headless: XM Cloud provides more than just headless capabilities, featuring in-built tools like authoring host, page editor, etc., enabling faster and more powerful implementations.
    • Focus on AI: Sitecore has now got an excellent AI offering called Stream; it looks promising; however, it would be too early to give feedback on the same.
    • Customization: Sitecore's backend is highly customizable, allowing for deep modifications through pipelines and patch configurations.
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    Cons
    ServiceNow
    • The scoped app prefix should be shorter to allow appropriate application naming if it exceeds the character limit. Either the scoped app name limit shall be increased, or the limit on scoped app prefixes shall be increased to allow better naming for scoped apps.
    • It's challenging to make citizen development work at scale. Businesses want experienced pro code developers rather than citizen developers to work on this feature.
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    Sitecore
    • Experience Editor is a little old fashioned and sometimes slow to use.
    • Bulk operations in the Content Editor
    • Sitecore serialization is should be part of the Content Editor to provide visual reference for items which are serialized and will be overwritten by future deployments similar to what Unicorn does so well
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ServiceNow
    There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now
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    Sitecore
    Sitecore has proven that it can deliver on its promise of a robust, reliable enterprise CMS solution with plenty of features. Also, they keep updating it with more and better features. Now that we are highly trained on it we have started on getting the most out of it and we plan to keep doing more of that in the future.
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    Usability
    ServiceNow
    Overall, very much usable for anything that happens in organisation. Able to track and discover each asset in the underlying infrastructure of the organisation and manage them. It is easy to understand the impact if any asset fails and hence risk mitigation becomes easier. It is a simple tool but with everything an organisation requires to go live with maximum customer impact and satisfaction
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    Sitecore
    We use Sitecore extensively because it provides a single platform for managing content, personalization, and digital experiences across multiple web properties and customer journeys. At our scale, the biggest value is consistency, governance, and the ability for marketing teams to manage experiences without needing engineering support for every change. It also integrates well with the broader CRM/marketing stack, so it becomes quite embedded once deployed.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ServiceNow
    Almost 100% available on time
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    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    ServiceNow
    They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support
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    Sitecore
    1. Customized software development & maintenance. 2. Technology Consulting - Consulting-based services for technology solutions data engineering or cloud solutions. 3. Used for tapping into multiple data sources such as CRM and marketing automation systems and, creating automated data extracts with a high-end visual representation of data. 4. Implemented for scheduling an existing report to automatically refresh and be delivered to specific users at a specific regular interval.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    ServiceNow
    No answers on this topic
    Sitecore
    Sitecore captures and remembers every single interaction your customers and prospects have in any part of the system, allowing you to build comprehensive, ever-learning profiles of each individual. From email marketing, to social media, to online shopping, Sitecore remembers where each interaction left off so you can automatically continue the conversation. Sitecore helps you manage your content for each and every experience your customers enjoy. Customize what content you want and the system will take care of how it's displayed.
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    Implementation Rating
    ServiceNow
    App engine can be used just to process the minimal amount of the data which is being received from the user. We are service now catalogue items or any other data technology.
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    Sitecore
    Make sure you work with a partner that can help you take advantage of the entire platform. Specifically we see a lot of customers not taking advantage of Sitecore DMS and thus missing a huge opportunity. Sitecore is a platform that is meant to be constantly optimized and improved upon.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ServiceNow
    There were no options from the other products because ServiceNow App Engine is a large product with many different modules, growing each year, which allows you to recreate your business processes in a very short time, making the migration to ServiceNow very easy.
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    Sitecore
    Really the only comparable product to Sitecore DXP is Adobe Experience Manager. Both are very well established and robust content management platforms. Products like Contentful and Contentstack are very lightweight and do not have as many built-in features like DXP, so it is not a fair comparison. For highly complex enterprise type engagements, Sitecore DXP and AEM are always brought to the table together for consideration.
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    Scalability
    ServiceNow
    It is scalable but not reliable
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    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    ServiceNow
    • We have managed to close the un applied cash item from 56% to 89% in a given five working days period by using ServiceNow App Engine
    • By automating and entire money laundering process, we have managed to provide the background check data as quickly as within a day, which was actually taking weeks Same reports when we were doing the things manually.
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    Sitecore
    • Since moving the site to Sitecore we have had an increase in conversion - that's the ultimate goal of all these things. It's likely to be partly tied in to the re-design that happened at the same time, but the way in which you can personalise and change things really helps give the best customer journey.
    • The negative impact we've seen is mainly due to expectations around how easily things can be shared between separate instances of Sitecore - if you haven't built stuff sharable it won't be sharable, but the business have been sold Sitecore (partly) on the basis that things would be easily sharable.
    • My developers don't all like working in Sitecore - it takes time to learn, takes a long time to build and run as well as requiring a few processes around it, like Unicorn Sync, etc. One of my devs has actually asked to not work on it again! So, a potential recruitment issue.
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