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OpenText WEM

Score9 out of 10

15 Reviews and Ratings

What is OpenText WEM?

OpenText's Web Experience Management is part of the Customer Experience suite and is based on the Vignette product that OpenText acquired in 2009.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Bulk management

    Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.

    Category average: 7.3

  • Availability / breadth of extensions

    There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Community / comment management

    Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.

    Category average: 7.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Mobile optimization / responsive design

    The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.

    Category average: 8.1

  • WYSIWYG editor

    What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.

    Category average: 8.1

  • SEO support

    The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

    Category average: 7.6

OpenText WEM Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OpenText WEM helped us with

1. Enhanced customer & content focus -

Benchmarking in the Market place

Develop ‘Input-Output’ metrics for processes

End-to-end operational metrics &SLAs

Quality measurement &monitoring

Process standardization

Process improvement & Re engineering

Up-selling and Cross-selling techniques.

2. Accelerate business expansion

Speed to market–New product/service launch

Provide local expertise & experience

Provide local market relationships(E.g. regulators, vendors)

Technology identification,implementation & integration

Marketing analytics – Identify &exploit sales potential through Operations

Pros

  • Reduce Operating Costs
  • People Readiness
  • Knowledge / Update management

Cons

  • Process Knowledge Assessments
  • Response management
  • Peer Analysis & Trend Analysis

Return on Investment

  • Interested internal and external readership base reflected by the comments on the blog page, and social media posts.
  • Conceptualization of creative themes for events and creation of assets ranging from email signatures and program books to micro sites and registration platforms
  • UI audit of new platforms and revamp in line with findings for enhanced UX; creation of demo videos for customer pitches

Super-breed solution for Content Management.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used OpenText CMS for about three years to have better engagement online with my customers. Opentext WEM has been critical to our journey as the business grows to help us innovate better. Migrating to the cloud with Opentext CMS has helped us deliver more efficiently microservices and operations in a highly scalable environment.

Pros

  • Easier management of websites.
  • Integrates well with Portal to deliver news, working like a blog.

Cons

  • It's unable to connect user accounts so that accounts are set and utilize a single sign-in.

Return on Investment

  • Improved online engagement.
  • Speeds up our digital transformation my the day.
  • Modernizing our web content management system.

Other Software Used

4ALLPORTAL, Acquia Digital Experience Platform