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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Slack

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASlack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…

    $8.75

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformSlack
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $7.25*
    per month per user
    Business+
    $12.50*
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformSlack
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformSlack
    Considered Both Products
    Sitecore
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    After evaluating OpenText, we found that Sitecore has stronger capabilities to utilize the content for personalization and contextual marketing. We also favored Sitecore's user permissions, roles, and content creation processes out of the box.
    Incentivized
    Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Sitefinity is improving but at the time of decision making it had nothing that could compare with the A/B testing and personalisation features that Sitecore offers. This was a key differentiator and ultimately ensured Sitecore was purchased. WordPress isn't really comparable …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    503 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    426 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    510 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    295 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    330 Answers
    Features
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformSlack
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.9
    37 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.938 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.8
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    API9.934 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.732 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.2
    37 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.237 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.436 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section9.537 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates9.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.736 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator9.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.4
    36 Ratings
    35% above category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy9.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support9.733 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management9.531 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    7.5
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Conversion tracking7.716 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test reporting7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.2
    19 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign management8.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud enablement8.119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content aggregation8.219 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content classification8.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization7.819 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer data analytics7.418 Ratings00 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations7.319 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-website management8.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Digital asset management8.418 Ratings00 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    7.9
    628 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.6430 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.961 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.8363 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.0396 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings9.4601 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.2608 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.3275 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.7
    636 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings9.6635 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.7632 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.2620 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.1413 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.8412 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Slack
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.4
    603 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings8.2326 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings8.2541 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings8.4527 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings7.9429 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.3411 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.3362 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.0455 Ratings
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformSlack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (49 ratings)
    9.1
    (639 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    9.0
    (255 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (68 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformSlack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    Slack is ideal for Scrum and agile teams that need continuous communication during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, testing, and retrospectives. Slack is well-suited for maintaining team knowledge through searchable conversations and dedicated channels, where experienced team members help onboard new QA analysts.
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    Pros
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Customer issues: Threads feature allows us to group a particular issue in a single thread and discuss within that thread. I can use the thread link to embed in JIRA ticket for tracking progress in JIRA (which is our details engineering tracking system).
    • Ability to add folder to Slack channel helps keep important information, documents easily accessible. e.g., we use this to keep a "ramp up" folder that can be used by any new joiner.
    • Global search is effective when I forget which group a particular message was in.
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    Cons
    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
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
    • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
    • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Salesforce
    To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    Slack has good usability. Devs that are not familiar with the platform are able to jump into conversations and start sharing code and links within just minutes. Non developers are also able to understand the layout such as the Project Managers that are keeping the projects on track. We have not seen any tickets where employees are having trouble understanding Slack.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    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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    Salesforce
    Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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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    Salesforce
    I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
    One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
    • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
    Incentivized
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