HCL Digital Experience vs. Searchspring

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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SearchSpring has improved our conversion rate on our website in just the few weeks we've had them on the site. It is obvious that the improvements will continue over time with the incremental increases in traffic every week.

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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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• Customize search results pages - ability to add banners or other visual creative for search results pages based on specific queries.
• Easily badge products - set thumbnail badges to show specific messages on search results pages; allows for easy identification of items on sale, featured items, or items that may be eligible for free shipping.
• Easily merchandise search results pages - can be done on a per-query basis.

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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.

• Would like to see 4-Tell and Search Spring in one dashboard.
• Dream: Using customer demographic data plus past purchases plus browsing history to recommend products (machine learning), ability to easily manually connect specific products that the algorithm may not catch, for example, earrings and necklaces in the same style, accessory type products, etc. We would want this to work so that relating a product to another automatically works in reverse (currently it has to be done for both items).
• Ability to create custom landing page results that do not show "search results for ____" at the top
• A/B testing
• Exempting campaigns from global rules/banners.
• Advanced facet ordering logic.
• Advanced/dynamic facet labeling.

Incentivized

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.

New versions has increased user experience facilitating usability.

We had some issues related with performing and the support was suitable and sucessful.

We have a monthly phone call with our account manager, and she is available for calls in between as well. She has always been accessible. Working with her has been easy and she has provided training where needed. She is proactive in making sure we have everything we need and feel comfortable with the platform.

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Implementation was successful due to Websphere application server used.

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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We reviewed multiple providers 5 years ago before making the switch to Search Spring. While I can't recall the providers we reviewed we have been very happy with Search Spring. We appreciate the transparency to their product roadmap and their acquisition of 4-Tell to improve their product recommendations engine.

Incentivized

• 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.

• We lost CVR when we first moved to Nextopia, however we have steadily recovered this over time

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