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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

    UserTesting

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AUserTesting helps UX researchers, designers, product teams, and marketers gather actionable insights through research, testing, and feedback. With a network of real people ready to share their perspectives, UserTesting enables organizations to make customer-first decisions at scale.N/A
    Pricing
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformUserTesting
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Sitecore
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    128 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    94 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    126 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    90 Answers
    Features
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformUserTesting
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and UserTesting
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.9
    37 Ratings
    21% above category average
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    Role-based user permissions9.938 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and UserTesting
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.8
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    UserTesting
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    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 UserTesting
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.2
    37 Ratings
    26% above category average
    UserTesting
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    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 UserTesting
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.4
    36 Ratings
    35% above category average
    UserTesting
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    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 UserTesting
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    7.5
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    UserTesting
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    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 UserTesting
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.2
    19 Ratings
    3% below category average
    UserTesting
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    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
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Dovetail
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Optimal
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformUserTesting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (49 ratings)
    8.5
    (196 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    8.6
    (174 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.3
    (173 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    4.6
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformUserTesting
    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.
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    UserTesting
    UserTesting has been great for moderated customer interviews/usability testing as well as for unmoderated testing of messaging, imagery, prototypes and live experiences. I would say that the scope of what you want needs to be limited, as the participants are only paid so much and tests are supposed to not exceed a certain amount of time. For customer interviews, I think it can be difficult to onboard customers to UserTesting if they have never used it before. If I set up interviews, I don't even have them use the UserTesting scheduling tool, I actually set up all the interviews with the customers myself through the tool (being mindful of time zones!). When we run the meeting, they really don't even know UserTesting is involved. Might be nice for UserTesting to allow the upload/connecting to of a Zoom interview and let it do the transcription/analysis from there.
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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.
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    UserTesting
    • Product Manager who follows up on your UserTesting usage and gives advice/support when you need it.
    • UserTesting University is a great platform to learn how to use UT and general information about research.
    • UserTesting can find participants quickly, so you won't need to wait long before you can start the analysis.
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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
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    UserTesting
    • Sometimes there are restrictions around types of research that can be used for moderated user-testing with our own users.
    • For tests on relatively small areas of a website or app, the AI analysis seems rather overblown, like it's trying too hard to come up with something insightful when the test is actually about something quite small (e.g. structure of a mobile app menu).
    • It's difficult to invite our own users to unmoderated user-testing because they wouldn't know how the UserTesting interface works - this is particularly an issue for mobile research.
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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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    UserTesting
    I'm very happy with my experience of the product and the level of service and learning resources they provide. If the service becomes more expensive than it currently is then we might not be able to justify additional cost - but this is theoretical. I would recommend UserTesting and would ideally renew our contract.
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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.
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    UserTesting
    It's very good, I have used other tools in the past and this is by far the most intuitive and user friendly. Testament to this is the ease with which other non researchers who have been onboarded to the tool with our additional seat have found it easy to use
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    Reliability and Availability
    Sitecore
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    UserTesting
    Never encountered any problems
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    Performance
    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    UserTesting
    Perfectly fine. Never had any problems.
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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.
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    UserTesting
    I have contacted UserTesting's customer service online, by email, or by phone a few times, and each time, I have encountered the same professionalism and expertise. Even in person during a work event, they were there, and it was the same experience.
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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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    UserTesting
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    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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    UserTesting
    From a technical perspective, the implementation was extremely smooth. Most of the change management / implementation hurdles were clearing use of the tool through our various security, legal, and information privacy teams. Once these concerns were addressed (UserTesting.com was very helpful in providing all the needed documentation), the implementation process was very simple and we were able to get going right away.
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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.
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    UserTesting
    The quality of the participants: they usually have good feedback and act like "professional" users. Which is good when we want a few insights in a short amount of time. Also, the interface is good. I miss having more features, like a good transcription tool like we have in Condens
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    Scalability
    Sitecore
    No answers on this topic
    UserTesting
    The package we have limits the number of people who can set up tests. This prevents us from scaling the use of the platform.
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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.
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    UserTesting
    • Content is key to the sign up journey and UserTesting helps me improve that.
    • UserTesting has helped me improve the Cashier on our site, making it easier for users to deposit money.
    • UserTesting is helping me iterate all our content decisions, helping us improve the UX across all platforms.
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    ScreenShots

    UserTesting Screenshots

    Screenshot of UserTesting's several solutions for gathering rich customer experience narratives.Screenshot of Interactive Path Flows
Built on recent research in data mining, the Interactive Path Flow aggregates interaction data across multiple participant sessions to visualize the customer journey, surface unexpected behaviors, and locate key moments in the customer journey.Screenshot of Keyword Mapping
Similar keywords are automatically grouped based on overall sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral) to identify themes. Highlight reels associated with each keyword are grouped together, to discover the why behind each sentiment.Screenshot of Video capture and live streaming
Digital and real-world customer experiences are recorded on desktop and mobile devices or live streamed for in-platform viewing.Screenshot of Audience targeting
Audiences are specified by screening contributors from UserTesting’s global network of contributors or connecting to any preferred network.