dotCMS

Vorteile

This is an ideal CMS for an enterprise environment that needs a product that is flexible, highly customizable and reasonably priced.

Nachteile

There are bugs at times that are identified and either resolved via a hotfix or held for resolution in the next iteration. I have received emails saying that a bug was identified and proactively already fixed. However, other times I notice an issue that is documented as a feature yet doesn't work and you must wait until the next iteration is released. One example is an automatic sitemap generator tool. While the configuration of the module is in the documentation there are known reports that not all of the features work. Rather than prioritize it as a hotfix, it is idle until the next release. In the meantime, I have to defer to a third-party sitemap tool.

Vorteile

We appreciated that we could make tweaks and changes that we needed to get the platform to do what we need. Thanks to dotCMS, we are able to give our front end users an easy way to edit and add content to their pages no matter what their skill levels are. We also have the freedom to push to production without having to involve the System Administrators which gives us AMAZING turn around time. If there is a problem in production, we can fix it in minuted, which makes our client very happy and lowers their impact to revenue.

Nachteile

Sometimes it feels like the software falls short in some instances. Some UI bugs that we have encountered frustrate us as they seem to simple that with some UI/UX focus, shouldn't have occurred. Better documentation could also help us in leaps and bounds. When we have issues, it can be so frustrating to find the correct way to do things, or how to fix our problem. It is often found to be out of date or inaccurate.

Vorteile

The ability to create widgets and place them in any container on the page allows for a ton of flexibility for pulling in and displaying content. The interface for content editors was generally easy enough for them to use effectively.

Nachteile

If you're not a developer who already knows the language, there's a long learning curve before you're able to code Velocity to do what you want. Also, some things that require little or no setup in other systems require customization. (Example: generating friendly URLs, which is automatic in something like Wordpress.) We also didn't like the strange URLs auto-generated for file assets. Permissions were buggy, partly because some of our files were so old ("legacy" assets).

Vorteile

dotCMS uses concepts familiar to the average computer user, such as files and folder, so it's easy for people who know nothing in particular about web development to add and maintain content.
Support is very courteous and responsive.

Nachteile

Not very developer-friendly: On the job, the main thing I do in dotCMS is write code for templates, detail pages, etc. I often end up copying and pasting code back and forth between dotCMS' interface and a text editor like Notepad++ because I find the built-in code editor fields too small. While dotCMS has WebDAV support, I have never been able to get it to work - and I've tried about a dozen times on a dozen different computers. The closest I've come to getting WebDAV to work is getting a list of all folders in the dotCMS installation -- but no files.

Vorteile

dotCMS is a developer's sandbox with lots of toys in it. It has a lot of built-in features and the custom content types and flexibility. There has been nothing we've wanted to do that we could not do using dotCMS.

Nachteile

With great flexibility comes great complexity. There are examples of how to do everything, but in the end you have to build out your own stuff. It doesn't theme, it doesn't one-click upgrade. You have to have a competent development wrapped around it.

Vorteile

Ease of installation and customization. Front End management and customization of themes

Nachteile

Nothing. I think dotcms, compared to other CMSs, offers unparalleled uptime and build times.

Vorteile

dotCMS was a great out-of-the-box solution for our organization. It is able to handle complex content and relationships and makes it realitvely easy to build your website or app around your content and data.

Nachteile

The interface and learning curve can be intimidating for first-time or casual users. However, it had improved significanlly over the last few years with more improvements constantly coming down the line.

Vorteile

The flexibility and toolset gives our team a lot of options and methods to integrate with our complex ecosystem.

Nachteile

IMO, dotCMS is not for the small team. It provides a ton of features and power, but the complexity makes it hard to jump in to.

Vorteile

I love the content model, it provides a very flexible and powerful way to model what content makes up our website. I also love the ability to adapt the software itself to what our business needs through the use of plugins.

Nachteile

Administration is not trivial. The powerful features in dotCMS come at a price that makes it harder to administer at a technical level. It requires more resources to run, upgrades are difficult, etc.

Vorteile

Easy to use folder/html-page style site interface. Extensive API uses Java viewtool objects to interact and code with the data programmatically. Apache velocity is a nice templating language for front-end development. Easy to create and deal with new structures.

Nachteile

Permissions can be difficult and involved to set up and maintain. There are limits on datatypes in content structures (which is understandable) but I can't think of why the text limit and date limit should be the same. We are always running into the text type limit because so many field types use the text data type. On the other hand, the most we've ever used the date data-type is twice in a structure. We don't need 25 date fields.

Vorteile

Elegance in the back-end CMS interfaces, considering simple interconnections and data searching and editing. Generally, spreading concepts is a wonderful way to obtain content across requirements. I enjoy how versatile it is and allows me to create bespoke material kinds. That's what I believe, with enough planning, a self-serve website is feasible, while still considering unique layouts and styles.

Nachteile

A few issues with "system coding" principles, where personalization is intended to make use of this package's Capabilities. Nevertheless, modification implies effort and necessitates platform testing. In certain cases, it appears that the software comes up short. Certain UI flaws we've found irritate us since they appear to be so basic that they might not have happened with certain UI/UX efforts. Improved documentation might also assist us tremendously. If we have problems, it may be quite hard to figure out what to do and how to solve them. It is frequently discovered to be outdated or wrong.

Vorteile

The main reason we chose dotcms over other products was its ability to be customized to fit our needs without being overly complex. We need a product that folks without an IT background can navigate and use. Dotcms fit the best of both worlds for us.

Nachteile

The biggest challenge for us is upgrading. We host our instance of dotcms and all our upgrades are done manually. It would not have been so bad if we didn't write custom plugins to begin with.

Vorteile

Ease of use, lots of freedom in HOW to use it.

Nachteile

Initially it was pretty hard to setup. That might not have been dotCMS' 'fault', because our environment was a little different then the standard installation.

Vorteile

- Lots of room for customization
- templating and layout options are robust
- file management is a breeze
- personalization and personas
- ability to establish workflows for publishing content
- reasonably priced for a product of this size

Nachteile

- Complex for non power users
- Documentation is overwhelming with examples not always being clear
- Velocity is some what limiting when programming certain features
- Large macro code base but they don't always function or stay up to date

Vorteile

Self-serve capabilities for our Marketing team to manage their own content.

Nachteile

There is still a way to go from the Enterprise perspective in terms of being able to monitor resource usage, when using dotCMS on the dotCMS cloud.

Vorteile

It's easy for new users to grasp.
Permissioning is granular.
Custom content types are fairly easy to create.

Nachteile

Getting satisfactory answers from support is sometimes frustrating.

Vorteile

Very simple to use, customizable, time to market

Nachteile

Expensive Enterprise license
Site documentation is poor

Vorteile

We've been using the software with out clients since almost the inception of the software. Their support is great, and more affordable than most that are comparable amongst enterprise CMS providers.

As mainly a development shop, the flexibility of the different frameworks we can use (Spring MVC, Struts, OSGi, AngularJS) allow us to use cutting edge technologies along with their scalable architecture and tackle just about anything you could want.

Nachteile

Software still has some legacy functionality that needs refactored; the impact is very low but from time to time creeps up from a "want" to a "need".

Vorteile

ease of use for users, time machine feature and the integration with elastic search

Nachteile

Sometimes the backend visualization is quite slow; in some places the code is inflexible and not very optimized

Vorteile

Adding and maintaining content in dotCMS is simple and easy for non-technical staff. The editor is intuitive and has all the features needed without being overwhelming and difficult to master. Content maintainers are up and running within minutes, its brilliant.

Nachteile

dotCMS has a fairly large footprint and can be quite complex to set up initially. There are some minor quirks which we have come across that their technical support wasn't able to solve for us, but I believe it is specific to our installation and may not affect other installations. Other than that their support has been outstanding.

Vorteile

DotCMS is providing both content management and digital customer experience through personas. The platform cost was reasonable considering all the features. Maintaining updates at the business unit level is crucial to our productivity.

Nachteile

Would really like an LMS or event management component that is as simplified and integrated with marketing content.

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Vorteile

dotCMS is a powerful tool that could be customized to your need without having to modify the core. Allowing you to create content and use it in many different ways. From totally headless to hosting the pages in itself. You can make it fit your needs.

Nachteile

Like any CMS, having to create template for special things might be challenging some times.

Vorteile

we were looking for a highly configurable system that would allow us to create and manage a large number of abstract content types using taxonomies, workflow and other best practices. dotCMS definitely provided this for us.

Nachteile

the system is pretty abstract so it takes some planning to get started. we also ended up going with the cloud solution, which was easier than installing it and managing it ourselves.

Vorteile

It often has glitches and it's not very user-friendly. As someone who has used other CMS platforms, I wouldn't recommend dotcms.

Nachteile

Building landing pages, publishing, trying to remove content assets.

Vorteile

Intuitive interface for creating web pages and reusable or structured content; ease of adding JQuery plugins; custom workflow designer; theme-based templates that support responsive design; built-in personalization and rule-based targeting; effective multilingual support; RESTful API; push publishing across servers.

Nachteile

Lack of built-in components - but then it's more of a framework than a plug-and-play system like WordPress.

Vorteile

We were able to customize and integrate with single page application completely. Ability to customize and add features are a big plus.

Nachteile

So far nothing, most critical issues we found were quickly patched.

Vorteile

Build on sound software foundations and frameworks, flexibility with regards to integration plugins.

Nachteile

Customer support, lacking in understanding requirements of clients especially the ones who are in commercial in nature, taking feedback from marketing and real users for UI specific needs.

Vorteile

It's easy for designers to use, no need to be a coding god to navigate.

Nachteile

It's laggy sometimes especially the search function

Vorteile

Being able to template out multiple websites with the same look and feel. The ability to reuse widgets & content across the site is a time saver.

Nachteile

Building tables on the web page is painful but it is across most web environments.

Vorteile

A Java base CMS which is compatible with all platforms.

Nachteile

Newer version of dotcms have issues with plugins.

Vorteile

Generally works pretty well and is reasonably easy to use once you get the hang of it.

Nachteile

Is not very modern. Working with images is cumbersome. Documentation could be better. Support seems quite slow.

Vorteile

Easy to use. Very easy to manage your work.

Nachteile

Customer service or internal problems within software like system bugs.

Vorteile

This tool was much more approachable than previous CMS and the APIs that they provide allow you to extend the product with ease

Nachteile

Some of the desired customizations weren't always possible

Vorteile

- Extremely easy to use
- Headless capabilities
- Great support
- No code

Nachteile

- Lack of native a/b testing, encouraged to see it on the roadmap

Vorteile

The dashboard is very well done. It has everything you need and is easy to understand. The vanity URL ability was also a very cool feature. Plus, the Java being there was nice as well.

Nachteile

The pricing. We loved the demo but the enterprise package was a little more that our budget could handle for a CMS.

Vorteile

I have minimal use with the software on a daily basis. However, when I do need to go in and make a change for our company's website, it is fairly easy and quick. I am able to get in and out.

Nachteile

I wish it would be a bit more user friendly and not so cumbersome in some areas. It could be the way my company initially structured the software for our needs.

Vorteile

Coming from our prior system, dotCMS was an improvement in several areas. The layout of the administration portal was simple to learn in order to get started.

Nachteile

The management of users and roles required manual intervention and could not use work flows to do automation.

Vorteile

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Nachteile

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