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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

    Xamarin

    Score6 out of 10
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    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformXamarin
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    Xamarin
    Free
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    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformXamarin
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformXamarin
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    Sitecore
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
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    Features
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformXamarin
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Xamarin
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.9
    37 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Xamarin
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.938 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Sitecore Digital Experience Platform and Xamarin
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.8
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Xamarin
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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 Xamarin
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.2
    37 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Xamarin
    -
    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 Xamarin
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    9.4
    36 Ratings
    35% above category average
    Xamarin
    -
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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 Xamarin
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    7.5
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Xamarin
    -
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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 Xamarin
    Feature
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    8.2
    19 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Xamarin
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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
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    User Ratings
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformXamarin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (49 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sitecore Digital Experience PlatformXamarin
    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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    Microsoft
    If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and effort from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, Windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done.
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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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    Microsoft
    • Xamarin allows you to write cross platform code. This allows companies to build apps more quickly by writing less code. Having code abstracted and reused across multiple platforms allows for more testing and less issues overall.
    • The ability to use Visual Studio is a huge plus. Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's available and being able to write cross platforms apps while in a great IDE makes everything less painful.
    • Xamarin is now free with a large company backing. This means that bugs on the platform get fixed more quickly and there is a large community of developers.
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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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    Microsoft
    • Forms - not 100% there. Still needs work but is production ready.
    • iOS - sometimes errors can be hard to understand, if they even show up.
    • Insights - Xamarin offers their own crash analytics software. However, it's not perfect and sometimes doesn't pick up crashes.
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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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    Microsoft
    Xamarin has been great for developing different projects efficiently and effectively. It's nice to reuse the core business logic across different platforms so that there are less to maintain and little replications are needed. The biggest benefit is that C# programmers do not have to learn a different language to do mobile development.
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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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    Microsoft
    If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and efforts from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done
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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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    Microsoft
    I never had to contact support for any help. Most of the problems we ran into, we were able to identify and use peer support through blogs and other internet sources to resolve the problems. There are plenty of sources online which provide tutorials, discuss problems, etc. Example: StackOverflow
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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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    Microsoft
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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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    Microsoft
    Just with any programming tasks, have a plan first. Design out the system, spend time to build it correctly the first time and have plenty of testing and user acceptance opportunities. Xamarin was easy to implement for a C# programmer. However, you need to do tutorials to realize the platform's capabilities.
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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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    Microsoft
    Xamarin runs natively on MacOS, and the debugger and other integration and auto-complete tools are far better than Eclipse for C# .NET. It also carries much of the plugin/add-on capabilities that are so desirable on Atom. Eclipse is a better for generalized software development, provided a developer is comfortable switching between the IDE the command line for certain parts of their workflow, like building, package management, or debugging. But for C# .NET development on MacOS specifically, Xamarin is the best product I've used for the job.
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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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    Microsoft
    • Saves development time and deliver fast.
    • Allows inhouse developers build both Android and iOS application without switching languages.
    • Allows use coding in C# in Visual studio IDE from which we can code in different languages. We don't need multiple IDEs installed
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