Posts Tagged: ‘HCLDX’

What’s the real cost of better digital experiences today?

5. Februar 2020 Posted by Kirsten Kelley

Ever wish you could go back to a simpler time? People who had businesses back before the internet were interested in providing a great customer experience, but it was all pretty straightforward. The customer had only a few touch points with the business — face to face, phone or mail – and the successful businesses put their organization’s best foot forward to create a great impression.

The cost to create multi-channel digital experiences

Now, it’s tricky. If you do business online, you need to worry about the full range of your visitors’ digital customer experiences.  Every digital touch point – you need to be awesome! This includes all web and mobile interactions, but also kiosks, IoT devices, wearables as well as the many other points of communication still in development.

And tricky can also mean costly. With so many channels it becomes harder and harder to create memorable, consistent impressions on each one. Supporting personalized content on so many channels can often sap internal resources. And if you don’t get it right everywhere, users may find themselves looking elsewhere.

What if you could create, manage and deliver engaging and personalized multi-channel experiences with a single digital experience platform? And what if that digital experience platform could not only integrate your efforts to provide customer-centric experiences, but also set your organization on the road to greater productivity?  Well, we have some facts to help illustrate the potential upside!

The research results from IDC

The International Data Corporation (IDC), a premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology markets, interviewed organizations that use the HCL Digital Experience platform to create and manage their digital experiences. “Study participants told IDC that they have realized significant business benefits from their use of HCL DX, especially in increased revenue and employee productivity. The ability to deliver more engaging, relevant content, tailored to personas and channels, has been key to their success.”

HCL customers say that HCL Digital Experience solutions help them:

  • Generate more revenue, by providing customers and partners personalized real-time information about products, services, and prices
  • Enable faster and easier development of public-facing websites, intranets/portals, extranets, and other engaging content experiences
  • Drive higher employee productivity for those who create, deliver, and use digital experiences in marketing, creative services, application development, IT operations, sales, customer support, and other areas

“We are able to deliver a more personalized experience with HCL DX…This means better customer service, and everyone is happier. And that means as much as 10% more revenue.”

 

Consider some of the benefits that users have reported using the HCL Digital Experience platform:

  • 661% five-year ROI
  • 33% improvement in customer satisfaction
  • $41.7 million in new revenue

And if you’re concerned about upfront costs, consider this statistic: HCL Digital Experience customers reported that it took them only 16 months, on average, after investing in the platform to break even.

So it may not be the 90’s anymore, but with the right tools it can still be simple –- and cost-effective — for your organization to provide great customer experiences.

View the Infographic

 

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HCL DX: This Digital Experience Platform Is the Gift that Keeps Giving

19. Dezember 2019 Posted by Kirsten Kelley

Looking back at the year so far, I am thankful for all we have accomplished and excited for what is to come in 2020. Our platform has progressed so much in the few short months since we transitioned to HCL, and the genuine enthusiasm and energy around the platform is palpable.

The end of the year is an excellent time for reflection, so let’s take a look at what we have checked off our list, including the release of HCL DX 9.5 (our first new release in almost two years!), and consider some of the future gifts that are coming soon.

 

Innovative capabilities providing benefits now:

  • Unsurpassed platform standardization & flexibility:  Production Docker and Kubernetes support means initial install and subsequent updates of HCL DX software take minutes, not hours or days.  It provides unmatched flexibility and portability, so you can select the deployment model and platform of your choice.
  • Liberated experience delivery for front-end developers:  Developers can deliver cutting-edge experiences to any and all digital touchpoints, leveraging the latest front-end frameworks and the new self-describing OpenAPI set of REST services. Greater consistency across touchpoints lead to more revenue opportunities.
  • Accelerated time to market with a re-imagined UI:  A new practitioner experience, a beautiful set of out-of-box templates, as well as the forthcoming native digital asset management capability, help empower business users to create, manage and publish memorable experiences more effectively — ultimately delivering the experience customers demand in a timelier manner.
  • Deployment options to dramatically reduce Total Cost of OwnershipKubernetes orchestration for automated provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, self-healing (and more) dramatically reduces TCO.

Compelling advancements coming soon:

  • Media Library: This lightweight Digital Asset Management solution helps deliver engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels by centrally managing and enabling rich media assets (videos, images and documents).  Business users can optimize videos and images  without using complex tools or specialized resources.  CDN integration enables fast delivery of experiences to audiences to never miss an engagement opportunity.
  • Content UI: Content owners can look forward to a new, modernized content authoring & modeling experience that is integrated into practitioner studio.  This will allow users to reuse legacy content repositories (and versions) with a modern UX at the intersection of content & workflow – allowing business users to create content delivered anywhere using any framework.
  • Bulk Translation: This capability will help export content for translation and import translated content quickly, significantly accelerating delivery of content in multiple languages to improve engagement world wide.

 

More ways to engage with your favorite DX platform:

  • New customer videos, instructional videos, and more: Check out our new DX YouTube Playlist – here you will see some customer testimonial videos to hear how folks like you are running their business using HCL DX.  You can also see the DX Leaders video series on a variety of topics related to challenges and strategies when implementing digital transformation.  And coming in January, we will add our highly anticipated “Did-You-Know” series — with short instructional videos on how to deploy new capabilities with your HCL DX platform.
  • HCL DX Newsletter: We will publish this newsletter six times per year, where you can find the latest information about product announcements, upcoming webcasts and events, analyst papers and more. If you have not already done so, sign up for the newsletter today.
  • Connect with other HCL DX Aficionados and expand your network at our DX TechConnects: This is a series of 1-day events around the world where you can connect with HCL DX leaders, as well as other HCL DX customers to discuss product priorities, as well as implementation strategies.  In the first half of 2020, we plan to have these events in the following cities: NA:  Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Toronto.  Europe: Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome. AP: Australia and more to come. Please reach out to Kirsten Kelley if you would like to receive an invitation.

 

Enjoy the gifts that the holiday season (and our HCL DX platform) provides – we look forward to working together to create more exceptional experiences in 2020.

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Are your practitioners armed with the tools they need to create digital experiences that users demand?

17. September 2019 Posted by David Strachan

Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to create an attractive marketing page, or a powerful web experience, and the tools just seem to get in your way?  Do you need to create an attractive marketing page, but the backend tools are lacking? Are you frustrated looking for skilled resources to manage and create the experiences? We can help.

HCL DX 9.5 features a new, consolidated user interface called “Practitioner Studio” and a completely new demonstration site called “Woodburn Studio”. Between them, these provide a modernized and consolidated landing page for authors and site administrators. 

Why does this matter?  Well, the new Practitioner Studio brings together all of our tools –content creation, site management, personalization, and admin capabilities – into a single, convenient workspace.   Our existing customers will find that navigation needed to accomplish common tasks in HCL DX are streamlined and intuitive, and it makes it much easier for new users to learn how to use the product and get new content published in minutes.

Need a way to get your creative juices flowing?  Great news – we have also built a new demonstration site called “Woodburn Studio.”  This site is a gorgeous demonstration of the product’s capabilities and will provide a good foundation to extend our range of demonstrations and samples in the future.

Taken together, these capabilities are a first step towards a much more extensive modernization of the HCL DX user interface.  This will help provide a faster time to market for the digital experiences for all of your audiences, as well as help empower business users.  Now you have the most powerful DX platform on the market – with an upgraded practitioner experience to match. Creating, managing, and publishing memorable experiences more effectively has never been easier.

Join us at our DX Inspire v9.5 launch events in October to learn more (Raleigh, NC, and Milan, Italy), and check our webpage on September 30 to learn more details about our latest release.

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Docker? Kuber-what? HCL is reinventing DX with containerization (and why you should care!)

9. September 2019 Posted by Brian Chaput

Since there’s been a lot of buzz around it, you no doubt know Docker provides an open standard for packaging and distributing containerized applications – the benefits of which are many for any business that adopts the approach, such as rapid install, on virtually any platform, and isolation that makes software/container updates a snap.

What you may not know is that HCL Software is on a mission to be a premier provider of containerized applications – a mission founded in freeing businesses to focus on driving business value from software investments, not spending resources on intensive and high-cost devOps – and I’m delighted to say that HCL Digital Experience 9.5 for Docker is ready to go this month.

But wait, you might hear that and understand how Docker alone is great, then you ask I often also hear about “Kubernetes”…how is it related and why should I care?  As Docker is for containers, Kubernetes (or “k8s” for those in the know) is for orchestration of containers.  Why is that important?  Well, as an analogy, think about air travel – a plane is a like a container and airports/air traffic provide valued orchestration so individual planes can get where they need to safely and efficiently – similarly k8s becomes critical so more value is derived from the containerization approach.  Specifically, k8s provide scheduling of container launches/clusters, autoscaling and load balancing as load changes, self-healing of problematic/expired containers, container rollback, and much, much more.  In all, Docker + Kubernetes really is revolutionizing software delivery, implementation and maintenance – and I encourage everyone seek out more education on why businesses need to at least consider employing the paradigm sooner rather than later.

For HCL, the 9.5 release Digital Experience (DX) is available via a Docker image with production support on Red Hat OpenShift (and we’ll soon follow with production support for Amazon EKS too).  What does this mean for clients?  Initial installs and subsequent updates of HCL DX software in minutes, not hours or days … and of course unmatched flexibility to select the deployment model (private cloud, public cloud, on prem, et al) and platform that works best for you now or in the future.

Coupled with other new features in 9.5, and those coming soon in 9.6 (also, unlike some others, at HCL we think shipping software innovations often is better for our customers) – like a new Media Library digital asset capability, a completely reimagined user experience, and more – we’re ready to help you move on from buying and managing DX software to making leaps on your digital experience transformation objectives.  We welcome the opportunity to show you how HCL DX does digital experience management and software deployment better…. We’re ready, are you?

Join us at our DX Inspire v9.5 launch events in October to learn more (Raleigh, NC, and Milan, Italy), and check our webpage on September 30 to learn more details about our latest release.

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