Dynamicweb vs. HCL Digital Experience

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dynamicweb
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
DynamicWeb is an all-in-one marketing, ecommerce, and content management platform from Dynamicweb Software. It is meant to integrate with existing ERP, CRM, or SharePoint to create a comprehensive and simplified solution for small to medium-sized businesses.N/A
HCL Digital Experience
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
HCL Digital Experience is based on the former IBM Web Content Manager and IBM WebSphere Portal products, acquired by HCL Technologies from IBM in late 2018. The product allows the user to create, manage and deliver engaging omnichannel digital experiences to audiences with responsive content, targeted offers, seamlessly integrated applications and consistent branding across channels (web, mobile, and hybrid mobile/web applications and more).N/A
Pricing
DynamicwebHCL Digital Experience
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DynamicwebHCL Digital Experience
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DynamicwebHCL Digital Experience
Considered Both Products
Dynamicweb
Chose Dynamicweb
Easy to use for smaller organization and a pro-active agenzy.
HCL Digital Experience
Chose HCL Digital Experience
Each of the options had good points and bad points. Building a site with tight integration to HCL Commerce and SAP backend systems was just easier with HCL DX. Security is also a concern and HCL DX provided better fine-grained security across the board. HCL DX also allowed us …
Chose HCL Digital Experience
When compared with CMS products like Adobe Day CQ, Fatwire, Interwoven:
        • IBM Web Content manager is reliable and scalable
        • Better customer service and IBM is keen on helping customers fix any issues with quick turnaround
Chose HCL Digital Experience
IBM Web Content Manager comes with IBM WebSphere Portal. Both [have been] leaders in the portals and content management space for a long time with proven capabilities. Our clients also have other products from the IBM stack and they fit along nicely.
Chose HCL Digital Experience
I used Liferay WCM; the open source system is too customizable such that what you get out of the box is not adequate. However, the portal pages in Liferay blend better with WCM than IBM: This is not always an advantage if you want to build a WCM site separated from portal …
Chose HCL Digital Experience
Adobe Experience Manager,Liferay Portal,Magnolia (V5 and later versions),Adobe CQ
Chose HCL Digital Experience
Magento and Prestashop are E-commerce CMS platforms.
They are used in a different scale of application than WCM.
Features
DynamicwebHCL Digital Experience
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Dynamicweb
8.0
Ratings
1% below category average
HCL Digital Experience
5.0
Ratings
49% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Dynamicweb
7.5
Ratings
1% below category average
HCL Digital Experience
4.1
Ratings
68% below category average
API7.00 Ratings4.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.00 Ratings4.10 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Dynamicweb
6.5
Ratings
17% below category average
HCL Digital Experience
2.9
Ratings
90% below category average
Admin section8.00 Ratings3.10 Ratings
Page templates7.00 Ratings1.10 Ratings
Library of website themes2.00 Ratings1.10 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow7.00 Ratings1.10 Ratings
Form generator8.00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings3.10 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Dynamicweb
6.8
Ratings
8% below category average
HCL Digital Experience
1.9
Ratings
117% below category average
Content taxonomy8.00 Ratings1.10 Ratings
SEO support6.00 Ratings2.10 Ratings
Bulk management8.00 Ratings2.10 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions5.00 Ratings2.10 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings2.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
DynamicwebHCL Digital Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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5.7
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Usability
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9.0
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Support Rating
-
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7.0
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Implementation Rating
-
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7.0
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Product Scalability
-
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9.0
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User Testimonials
DynamicwebHCL Digital Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
For small/medium organizations where non-professionals should work with the system in everyday situations, Dynamic Web is a good solutions. Works well on Mobile. Not very complicated to add new shops/add new countries to the solution. I have never used the headless functionalities but they should be well working, as I have heard. it should be very easy to implement with Business Central, but I have seen it being more complicated than expected.
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IBM Web Content Manager is well suited for intranet employee portals, websites which drive extensive marketing content, and e-commerce sites to provide product images and details. It cannot be used a document management system to store large volumes of data as it's purely a web content management system.
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Pros
  • All-in-one setup makes it easy for a small/medium organization to get an easy and fast go to market
  • Good overview of progress of product enrichment with the built-in dashboard
  • Easy enrichment both in the PIM and with upload of data in excel-sheet
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  • Well designed web content management system with clearly defined relationships between the various web content objects such as sites, site areas, authoring templates, presentation templates, library resources, components, web content objects, etc.
  • Can create robust content creation and publishing workflows with workflow stages and workflow actions
  • Web Content can be rendered on multiple devices and browsers in a responsive and adaptive manner.
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Cons
  • Design templates and way to build pages are not very intuitive and lack ease of use for non-professionals
  • Layout of Dynamic Web sites are not the most sexy. But they work!
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  • Search is not working well. We could not get it work even we worked it with IBM support.
  • Java Applet in Ephox editor is pain. You have to watch that you update your Java version correctly or You cannot edit anything. This might work somehow on enterprise environment with tight workstation configuration. I think that Java Applet editor is the worst part of IBM WCM
  • IBM WCM needs lot of capacity on database and appserver.
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Likelihood to Renew
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IBM products always moves forward to adapt to new requirements and technologies. I have used versions 6, 6.1, 7 and 8 of IBM WCM, and I know IBM is ready to revamp the tool based on emerging needs, and still provide the capabilities to migrate your old system to the newer versions.
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Usability
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New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.
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Support Rating
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We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.
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Implementation Rating
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Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.
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Alternatives Considered
Easy to use for smaller organization and a pro-active agenzy.
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Each of the options had good points and bad points. Building a site with tight integration to HCL Commerce and SAP backend systems was just easier with HCL DX. Security is also a concern and HCL DX provided better fine-grained security across the board. HCL DX also allowed us to use multiple technologies and maintain a cohesive feel across everything.
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Return on Investment
  • Made selling online very easy
  • Fast go-to-market
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  • Unique, easy and user friendly solution that has increased business benefits such as a single repository for all company's products. It provides a better customer service.
  • A huge network of offices managed centrally increasing SEO, marketing, business and clients.
  • Employee efficiency reducing time through a single automated solution.
  • Internal communication within the company has been helped by Web Content Manager as a way of transparency, shared repository and networking with the goal of bringing teams and colleagues together.
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ScreenShots

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