Adobe Commerce vs HCL Digital Commerce comparison

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Adobe and HCLSoftware are both solutions in the eCommerce Platforms category. Adobe is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.8, while HCLSoftware is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.4. Adobe holds a 6.0% mindshare in P, compared to HCLSoftware ’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of HCLSoftware users who would recommend it.

Adobe Commerce

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87% willing to recommend

HCL Digital Commerce

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 2, 2025

HCL Digital Commerce and Adobe Commerce compete in the digital commerce platform category, enhancing e-commerce experiences. Adobe Commerce has an upper hand in features and tools, while HCL is advantageous in pricing and support.

Features: HCL Digital Commerce includes comprehensive order and registration modules, providing a complete solution without the need for multiple technologies. It offers customization and integration capabilities for complex needs. Digital Commerce is noted for managing end-to-end B2B modules. Adobe Commerce stands out with its evolving integration features, robust ecosystem, and adaptability. It includes AI-driven recommendations and integrations with third-party systems, ensuring a wide reach and comprehensive customer experience.

Room for Improvement: HCL Digital Commerce could benefit from simplifying its deployment process and enhancing its ease of customization for non-technical users. The platform would be more competitive with expanded integration communities and simplifying its complex backend processes. Adobe Commerce might improve by offering better out-of-the-box solutions for mid-sized businesses and reducing its dependency on third-party extensions. It can enhance features to reduce upfront implementation time and associated costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adobe Commerce benefits from straightforward deployment through an extensive partner network, offering significant customer support. It’s easier to implement, making it an attractive option for enterprises seeking quick solutions. HCL Digital Commerce requires deeper technical expertise for deployment but compensates with responsive direct customer service, providing personable support for clients with complex requirements.

Pricing and ROI: HCL Digital Commerce involves lower initial setup costs and quicker ROI due to customizable pricing plans, positioning it as a cost-effective solution. Adobe Commerce demands a higher upfront investment aligned with its expansive feature set. This results in a longer ROI period, justified by its extensive tools and capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Commerce

Ranking in eCommerce Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HCL Digital Commerce

Ranking in eCommerce Platforms

6th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of Adobe Commerce is 6.0%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HCL Digital Commerce is 2.2%, down from 5.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

eCommerce Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Adobe Commerce	6.0%
HCL Digital Commerce	2.2%
Other	91.8%

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Featured Reviews

AnkurPorwal

Staff Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Unified B2B and B2C setup has streamlined complex catalogs and real-time customer pricing

Adobe Commerce offers many features, such as the customer group, which is the best common feature for B2B. Additionally, we have implemented both B2B and B2C in a single instance, meaning B2B also uses the same code as B2C. That type of flexibility is only available in Adobe Commerce. The customer group feature helps my organization by allowing us to create specific customer groups for catalogs. For example, we have three companies—Company A, Company B, and Company C—and we need to create three customer groups: Company A customer group, Company B customer group, and Company C customer group. We always assign a number of products belonging to that particular customer group, ensuring that if a customer logs in with Company A, we showcase only those products available for that particular customer. If Customer B has a different set of products, we choose the Customer Group B and assign the catalog for that specific customer. This is the best feature for company-specific catalog management. Adobe Commerce has positively impacted my organization as I am a developer here and work in a service-based company that handles multiple client requirements. In terms of work and all, Adobe Commerce has created a lot of opportunities for the organization, improving revenue and performance substantially. Regarding how Adobe Commerce has improved revenue or performance, I believe that having multiple projects in Adobe Commerce translates into substantial revenue. I do not have specific metrics, as I am a developer and do not handle that type of data.

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Nirav Patel

Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Unified complex B2B commerce has streamlined workflows and now supports faster global ordering

While there are no specific pain points, HCL Digital Commerce's complexity does require a unique architecture, and it would be beneficial to have an integrated architecture that simplifies end-user integration with other AWS cloud services. Additionally, an improvement in speed would be advantageous; for example, if orders could be processed within a minute instead of three to four minutes, we could boost selling time.Optimizing for sales productivity to minimize processing time while maximizing sales time would also be valuable. Regarding challenges, the complexity of the structure due to large product catalogs, complex pricing, multiple brands, and regional requirements does create challenges. Reducing these complexities through HCL Digital Commerce's features could streamline our operations, particularly regarding ERP, CRM, payments, security, performance, and scalability.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Magento provides a strong backing, meaning it can handle the order processing, customer management, configuration, third party payment integration, and shipping matters. There is a standard, very well set up architecture already present in Magento that helps them set up their online shops with much precision. Clients can see their reports, their daily sales, their best selling products, and their best buying customers so that they can target them through mails or just follow up with them. These are the main default features which make Magento so attractive."

"Magento has changed over the years, but one of the most interesting aspects is that it gets the job done, and a vast community of experts is knowledgeable about the solution."

"On the plus side, when you build everything from scratch in Magento, you can do magic with it."

"The platform provides an easy way to customize its features."

"The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great."

"The product can be maintained effortlessly."

"It provides AI features, including a tool called Insight for AI-driven product recommendations."

"What I appreciate most about Adobe Commerce is the customizable element, as absolutely everything in Adobe Commerce is customizable."

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"We saw a twenty-three percent year-over-year revenue increase after putting this in place because of modernization."

"The best features HCL Digital Commerce offers include extensive possibilities to extend both the business logic and business layer as well as the persistence layer, allowing the addition of any type of business logic or database tables with flexibility, which is a significant advantage over other platforms I have worked with, particularly in the B2B area, where it is the strongest contender."

"The tool is easy to use and flexible. It is flexible enough to tailor to your requirements."

"The promotion engine is definitively one of the highlights, facilitating precision marketing and dynamic segmentation based on shopper insights and behavior, with business users able to set up promotion and segmentation rules simply by dragging and dropping the component icons."

"It is a very mature product, it has a lot of features, and it can also be very easily customized in order to reach goals or features that are not available, but mainly the fact that it's a very mature platform with all major features that are normally required by the clients is most valuable."

"The best feature HCL Digital Commerce offers, in my experience, is flexibility, and during these years, the growth of the solution, especially in the integration area where I worked extensively, has been outstanding because we started by sending more than 15 files to load the catalog, and now on the API-first side, there is a huge benefit of integration with HCL Digital Commerce."

"HCL Digital Commerce has positively impacted my organization by being a strong e-commerce solution, helping e-commerce retailers build websites and run businesses; it has indeed supported the transformation of our clients in their e-commerce journey."

"Has all the modules needed for an order management solution."

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Cons

"I'm not a technical person, but we had some kind of late response in page loading, let's say page load speed."

"The price of Adobe Commerce is very high, actually. If it were possible to have a free version or a limited version, that would be good for users."

"The product needs to improve its security. Also, they need to improve B2B features."

"Elasticsearch has really been a pain; it takes a toll on the performance, and starting with version 2.4, Magento requires Elasticsearch, which has been causing a lot of serious performance issues."

"At the moment, Magento is stuck in the middle of a nobody-wants-me market."

"The solution’s performance could be improved."

"I am still playing around and trying to catch up with the latest version to understand all the features, but I do feel that its CMS can be much more streamlined. They provide a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor, which many customers prefer, but based on the implementations that I have done for more than seven years, I have seen that many times, it is run by the marketing team, and they don't find it very comfortable to use. They feel uncomfortable managing and changing the content. As a business user, you need to have at least basic knowledge of HTML, which you cannot expect from all marketing teams. Some companies or organizations have that competency, but many organizations, especially in the Middle East, have a very small team, so it becomes quite difficult for them. This is a common challenge that I have seen across the platforms. Magento is better and easier than Oracle Commerce Cloud, but Shopify is much easier than Magento. A layman or my 10-year-old kid can go ahead and set up a store in Shopify in probably 45 minutes, which is not the case with Magento. Elasticsearch has really been a pain. It takes a toll on the performance. Starting with version 2.4, Magento requires Elasticsearch, which has been causing a lot of serious performance issues. We had a client in the US who was running a promo, and they lost a subsequent number of orders over one and a half hours. They were on the enterprise platform, not open-source. The team had to open a ticket with Magento. Its performance needs to be upgraded, or some kind of guidelines have to be provided for the setup. It looks like even Magento has no clue. When you go through the answers given in the online community, it seems that in spite of having the hardware configurations that they suggest, it is not performing at the optimal level. It should also have a better way to measure performance. Performance measuring has to be much easier. Many times, we see CPU utilization going up and down. We see spikes without any reason. Therefore, we need a better performance management system."

"The hardware requirements of the tool should be made better, as it is a solution that is very heavy on the servers, and it makes it expensive to host many servers."

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"Another area of improvement is the user-friendliness of the back office stuff. This issue is still valid, and it is still a problem, but I know they are currently working on it."

"The Product information Management is very basic, and the template for front-end coding could be improved."

"One important way HCL Digital Commerce can be improved is by reducing the learning curve, as developing is not straightforward, which I have observed from my activity as a project manager in HCL projects, where customization inside the platform takes time."

"The tool has a really rigid structure, so it is not something that has the simplicity to adapt to newer environments in a fast manner."

"While there are no specific pain points, HCL Digital Commerce's complexity does require a unique architecture, and it would be beneficial to have an integrated architecture that simplifies end-user integration with other AWS cloud services."

"HCL Digital Commerce should improve its integration capabilities with other platforms."

"There is room for improvement in HCL Digital Commerce, particularly regarding making the platform lighter since not all clients require a heavy solution that demands extensive effort and customization; further, performance improvements are needed, especially since the checkout process relies on outdated architecture."

"The product catalog is an area that needs improvement. It is forcing us to look and test other solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Many implementations were open-source. We also had a couple of enterprise-level implementations, but I didn't have visibility on the licensing cost."

"This solution is cheaper than some of its competitors. However, the price depends on which country you are in. In some countries, such as Greece or some Southeastern European countries, the price for the client can be expensive."

"The price of the solution increased after Adobe acquired Magento. At this point, we know the price of Magento and SAP, and while they may have lower entry tickets, they are ultimately comparable."

"We transitioned from the platform's commercial license to the open-source version, which helped optimize costs without affecting our sales."

"The cost of implementation is cheap compared to other solutions."

"The product offers an open-source version, which is free. There are licensing options for Adobe Commerce's cloud version."

"I believe that HCL Digital Commerce is one of the most expensive products on the market."

"For our companies and our users, the price is quite high."

"HCL Digital Commerce's licensing costs are annual. It is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

13%

Retailer

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Magento?

Adobe Commerce can be improved by working on some features, as the system currently takes too much time, particularly during cart and checkout processes. If we need customization, the cart and chec...

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What is your primary use case for Magento?

The main use case for Adobe Commerce is to migrate one Java application where we have a large number of products and a large number of customers, add-ons, and multiple e-commerce-related functional...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Magento?

I have experience regarding pricing and costs. Adobe Commerce is not inexpensive. It is not set up for customers with low budgets. Depending on the version you're implementing, the environment will...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HCL Digital Commerce?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been fair; however, I believe pricing could improve further to achieve better time to market and ROI that clients seek.

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What needs improvement with HCL Digital Commerce?

I see a lot of room for improvement in HCL Digital Commerce, such as making customer reviews less cumbersome, enhancing promotion coupons and e-marketing features, improving CMS options compared to...

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What is your primary use case for HCL Digital Commerce?

I have been using and managing HCL Digital Commerce projects for five plus years. I typically use HCL Digital Commerce for catalog management, basket and checkout, PDP, PLP attributes and features ...

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

Magento, EPiServer Digital Commerce

IBM Digital Commerce, IBM WebSphere Commerce

Overview

Adobe Commerce offers a modular approach with user-friendly design and open-source adaptability. It provides seamless integration with third-party tools and AI-driven features, making it ideal for businesses seeking customizable and performance-focused e-commerce solutions.

Adobe Commerce, previously Magento, is a powerful platform equipped to handle complex business requirements through its extensive customization options. Its modular framework allows for easy third-party integration and robust functionality. Highly adaptable, it supports both B2B and B2C operations, offering a strong community backing and competitive pricing. While it shines in flexibility and extensibility, it does require improvements in areas such as CRM, accounting functionalities, and performance management. Challenges include a complex CMS, high development costs, and limited developer availability, impacting ease of use and customization setup. The lack of headless architecture also complicates scalability. It provides AI-driven recommendations and integrations with SAP for real-time data management, demonstrating its alignment with enterprise demands.

What are the key features of Adobe Commerce?

Modular Approach: Enables easy third-party integration and customization.
Open-Source Flexibility: Allows for extensive tailoring to fit business needs.
AI-Driven Recommendations: Provides personalized shopping experiences.
Community Support: Offers robust assistance and resources.
Seamless Integration: Compatible with various external tools and systems.

What benefits or ROI can users expect from Adobe Commerce?

Customizability: Easily adapts to unique business requirements, maximizing efficiency.
Performance Focus: Designed for high performance, optimizing e-commerce operations.
Flexibility: Supports diverse business models, including B2B and B2C.
Competitiveness: Offers competitive pricing and strong feature set.
Community Resources: Access to a wealth of knowledge and support.

In fashion, furniture, and technology industries, Adobe Commerce enables businesses to tailor e-commerce platforms for refined customer management and product handling. Its support for SAP integration allows real-time data processing and personalized inventory management setups, catering to small to medium enterprises across e-commerce sectors.

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HCL Digital Commerce offers a customizable, flexible suite for e-commerce with B2B and B2C integrations, promoting scalability and automation.

HCL Digital Commerce provides businesses with a robust platform supporting global deployments through a headless and API-first architecture. Designed for B2B commerce, it features corporate accounts, advanced promotion engines, dynamic segmentation, and automated order placement, all while reducing workforce demands. The platform's mature capabilities extend to user management, order fulfillment, and seamless integrations.

What are the key features of HCL Digital Commerce?

Customization and Flexibility: Allows personalization tailored to business needs.
Scalable Architecture: Supports global deployments with API-first approach.
B2B Commerce Support: Includes corporate accounts and contract-based pricing.
Advanced Promotion Engines: Facilitates complex marketing strategies.
Dynamic Segmentation: Enhances targeted marketing campaigns.

What benefits and ROI should you expect with HCL Digital Commerce?

Reduced Workforce Needs: Increases efficiency with automation.
Enhanced Order Fulfillment: Streamlines operations for timely delivery.
Improved B2B Integrations: Provides seamless user management experience.
Increased Sales Productivity: Boosts performance through optimized architecture.

HCL Digital Commerce is widely implemented in industries for e-commerce management, including catalog and pricing strategies. Its architecture facilitates collaboration via cloud, adapting to mobile and web use. Particularly strong in B2B sectors, it manages complex data and high-traffic events, compatible with AWS infrastructure.

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Sample Customers

Magento has over 200,000 customers worldwide, including Bjorn Borg, Heath Ceramics, Harper's Bazaar, Kidstuff, International Military Antiques, Gifts That Gives, and Rovio Entertainment Ltd.

CEWE, J.J. Keller, Shop.ca, 360training.com, Bon-Ton, HH Gregg, Dahl Sverige AB, Terranova, Lindt

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