Shifting from WCM to DXPs
Gartner retired this report category in 2020. The world of web content management (WCM) has evolved, and we're now in the era of digital experience platforms (DXPs).
Don't worry. Gartner still evaluates each platform's content management capabilities. DXPs like Magnolia offer a single platform for managing content and digital experiences. With a user-friendly, unified authoring interface, seamless integrations with adjacent technologies, and tools for personalization, analytics, optimization, and customer journey mapping, you can streamline your digital delivery to create exceptional digital experiences across multiple channels.
Let’s explore the shift from WCM to DXPs, emphasizing insights by Mike Lowndes, Irina Guseva, John Field, and Jim Murphy, analysts at Gartner, Inc. We will also uncover the key offerings that we believe have propelled Magnolia to be included in the analysts’ report.
What is a DXP?
A digital experience platform (DXP) is a software solution that enables you to create and manage your content, integrate systems, gain valuable insights, and deliver personalized digital experiences to your individual customers across various channels. With a DXP, you can ensure consistent branding, improve operational efficiency, gain customer loyalty, adapt to market changes and customer demands, and scale your digital presence.
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By 2025, the global DXP market is anticipated to be valued at around $15.80 billion, according to industry projections. Digital experience strategies enable a remarkable 99% reduction in time to market, allowing businesses to deliver their offerings with unprecedented speed. In a survey by CMSWire, nearly 80% of digital experience executives emphasized the importance of exceptional customer experience for their organizations.
These insights highlight the profound impact of DXPs in facilitating faster market entry and personalized digital customer experiences — but how is this different from web content management?
Web content management (WCM) vs. digital experience platforms (DXPs)
WCM has long been crucial in helping businesses manage and publish their web content. It provided a way to organize, update, and present website information, ensuring a consistent online presence.
However, as the digital landscape evolved, businesses realized the need for a more comprehensive solution to deliver a broad range of exceptional digital experiences. This led to the emergence of DXPs, which build on the foundation of WCM and offer a more composable approach to content and commerce.
Here are some key differences between WCM and DXPs:
Scope – WCM primarily revolves around content creation, management, publishing, and simple personalization for websites. In contrast, DXPs offer a more comprehensive approach, incorporating content management systems, customer data management, advanced personalization, digital asset management, cloud capabilities, customer journey mapping, analytics, marketing automation, and multi-channel delivery to meet business goals and create engaging digital experiences.
Customer Experience Focus – Whereas WCM emphasizes managing content, DXPs prioritize customer journey management across multiple digital touchpoints. DXPs aim to create cohesive customer journeys and enable businesses to meet customer expectations at various stages of their interaction.
Personalization and Targeting – DXPs enable advanced personalization capabilities, leveraging customer data to deliver tailored experiences based on individual preferences, behaviors, and demographics. WCM may have limited personalization capabilities, mainly focused on simple rule-based targeting.
Omnichannel Experience – DXPs facilitate consistent and seamless experiences across a wide range of digital channels, including websites, mobile apps, customer portals, social media, email, and more. WCM typically focuses on website-centric experiences and often has limited support for other channels.
Gartner insights
Based on reviews on Gartner Peer Insights, Magnolia stands out with innovative digital experience capabilities and high customer support ratings, earning recommendations from more than 75% of respondents.
The reason for this success is not a mystery. Magnolia's core capabilities make it easy to set up a DXP and integrate the best tools. With an intuitive interface and user-friendly features, Magnolia supports your go-to-market strategies by enabling your digital marketing team to create captivating digital content and deliver personalized experiences.
According to Gartner, a significant majority — approximately 85% — of your effort and investment in a DXP program will be focused on integrating internal and external systems. With its Connector Packs and APIs, Magnolia extends natively into other core technologies that make up your composable DXP, reducing the complexity, effort, and time required for setup. As a result, the cost of integration is significantly minimized.
In Gartner's 2023 Magic Quadrant Report, Magnolia was recognized for the 3rd year in a row. We think we’ve been acknowledged as a visionary for our open, modular architecture, a unified approach to integrations, and our enterprise-grade editorial capabilities.
The value of the DXP
DXPs are essential tools that empower you to transform fragmented customer experiences into seamless, engaging journeys. By leveraging the insights provided by Gartner and choosing leading DXPs like Magnolia, you can enhance your digital strategies, improve customer engagement, and deliver exceptional experiences across all digital channels to match your and your customers’ unique needs.
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什么是DXP？
DXP是数字体验平台（Digital Experience Platform）的缩写，是一种用于创造、管理、交付和优化数字体验的技术集成平台。DXP旨在将不同的数字技术整合在一起，以提供全面的数字体验解决方案，包括内容管理、电子商务、数字营销、数据分析和个性化体验等。DXP帮助企业实现在多个渠道和设备上提供一致的数字体验，从而提高客户满意度和忠诚度。DXP可应用于各种场景，包括B2C、B2B和B2E。
关于报告
标题。2023年Gartner数字体验平台魔力象限
分析师。Irina Guseva, John Field, Mike Lowndes, and Jim Murphy
发布。2023 年 3 月 14 日
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