dotCMS Reviews & Product Details

dotCMS is super easy to use and very functional for what my organization needs. Navigating dotCMS is very user friendly as well.

There are rarely any glitches, but they always seem to be fixed in a very timely manner. I don't have many dislikes.

Updating my organizations website has been a breeze with dotCMS. Uploading files, photos, etc. has been quick and painless.

The performance made my to admire dotcms technology and the ease handling contents making the customization simple

More sophistication is I dislike.Cache isssues are still found make the technology less consistent

Handling contents posting in specific period and publishing

Easy to customize with VTL and Java to provide additional business functionality.

The only minor issue is removing history from published content.

Let copy writers provide content for web site easily.

I've been working on DotCMS for years and have generally been able to accomplish any and all requirements thrown at me. It's highly customizable and can be set up for no-code content creation by communications teams.

How the language of a given user is determined is a little flakey. I don't know if it's just because I'm flipping back and forth between languages, but we do find that sometimes the site will just switch languages when clicking on internal links.

It runs all of our marketing content which changes quite frequently. If we were to use our own internal capabilities to maintain a site, we would be required to wait for release windows to make updates. Slowing our marketing team down. DotCMS is reliable and just works.

dotCMS offers a complete and easy-to-use content management platform with great support, an intuitive permissioning system, and impressive scalability - allowing everyone from novices to seasoned developers to contribute to an online presence. The Long Term Supported releases provide seamless maintenance and peace of mind ahead of larger product upgrades.

Earlier versions of their product had a steeper learning curve for new content editors, but the more mature platform is easier to use and more flexible - and continues to improve with additional development.

dotCMS's development cycle keeps the platform innovative and fresh - safely adding new features to keep websites robust while addressing the shifting trends in development and design.

We have enjoyed the way dotCMS still treats a site as a series of folders with subfolders and pages. It's been the easiest way for our editors to transition. Conversely, it's also been a gentle introduction for our users to the concepts of structured content. It's not at all difficult to understand.

We have had a series of difficulties with the stability of the software. The cloud has been good for us, but the occasional software crash has been frustrating.

We are sharing content across our site without re-creating it. For instance, a piece of news created by our Marketing department can be shared on the Biology department's website if they wish.

The most helpful is the fact that it is open source, and it was written over a plugin system like osgi

the CRUD system works slowly. Not a production problem but a bit annoying for the content editor

Content management, and reusable frontend components

I like the way we can reuse the contents from the site.

Users creation if you don’t want to use saml

Using as content management system for our school.

i love the flexibility it provides. we chose our desired Front End technology, and after the initial implementation it is very straightforward to use by no-code users. another plus is about the speed to deliver into production new pages. we managed to launch an entire video streaming platform based on dotcms in only 10 days. it is easy to integrate with other platforms due to API based features. on the other hand, features as push-publish, persona and widgets are really great to use

The learning curve is quite long. we depend quite much on the vendor to learn to use the product at its best. but the best part here is that they are very committed in supporting us.

page editing by non-technical users. fast integration with other sources of data. fast delivery content pages on our site and easy way to modify afterwards, without depending on Developers for the slightest update

Time machine, work flow and publishing features

We are not able to track some logs like connection failed. Need to improve to track all kind of logs

We are mainly dealing with work flow and publishing. It is easy to handle in dotCMS

DotCMS allows us to divorce technology from design. Content creators and designers can work frictionlessly on our system without needing to know middleware or backend programming. We've enjoyed using dotCMS for more than 8 years. In that time we've build several websites and hundreds of branded pages for our clients.

The templating (Apache Velocity) is not widely used and requires some specific learning.

We are using the multi-tenancy capability in dotCMS to quickly and efficiently build experiences for our client. The templating also us to successfully repeat at scale. We continue to use DotCMS in new ways. The flexible headless design allows for creative solutions to come to life quickly.

A powerful headless option for developers and a seamless backend wysiwyg editor that can power and design multiple pages with great ease

With the huge variety of options the learning curve can be a bit steep initially

Working with the extensible java platform allows to create some powerful plugins

I love how easy it is to use, not only for me (not a programmer) but for my 50+ content editors of varying degrees of tech savviness. I can deploy new content types quickly and relatively painlessly.

I wish it had a better calendar tool for front facing Calendar of Events.

We can maintain a decentralized Web content maintenance model so that each expert area can update their own areas of the website with minimal training (no expertise in HTML or CSS required). It allows resources to deployed more efficiently.

Versatility: it's an ibrid CMS and it's great for headless developments and standard content management both. Great UI: updated to the latest technologies (angular 6 next to 7) and extremely powerful and intuitive (noCode philosofy) Great REST api: all is a service

for my experience I can only say that the product has grown considerably over the years and that there is nothing that really does not going to be resolved soon

My company has a partnership with dotCMS inc. We work togheter dotCMS team for our customers customization. Never problem.

the system is an excellent way to curate abstract content and create websites according to content strategy best practices

there are a few idiosyncrasies and user interface issues, but any mention of specifics would probably get old fast, as the vendor releases new versions often

we are currently running over 500 websites in dotCMS, all of which can share content with one another

headless cms with drag and drop and ease of use

had some difficulty understanding doc about saml integration other than that nothing at the moment

headless cms with drag and drop and ease of use

The flexibility of the platform. UI focussed on Marketing users, not IT admins. Strong backend architecture and highly scalable. Compared to other platforms, this is relatively cost-effective.

Documentation is not that great, and finding talent in the market is not easy. dotCMS support team is accommodating, but I wish dotCMS has professional services to help implementations directly. Documentation certainly needs improvement, and the company should invest in raising brand awareness and attracting more developers

Marketing content pages can be edited/created by the marketing team; we used to do a lot via the IT organization. This has increased our time to market and reduced our cost

DotCMS is very flexible and provides a solution for all our needs. Our in-house designers make it easy to add/edit content within the page containers and widgets.

With it's complexity comes a learning curve, especially if you're not a developer.

The ability to create widgets and utilize them throughout the site is very beneficial. The flexibility for front-end designers to add/edit content is very straightforward.

When the problem has been assigned it gets completed asap.

On occasion, response time can be lengthy.

Overall performance of our system websites

The dotCMS team is committed to supporting their customers to scale the solution to their needs. dotCMS allows a lot of functionality and has potential for integration with other systems. The training resources are excellent.

The Admin Panel could use some refreshing as it is a bit difficult to work with to set permissions and manage pages compared to other solutions. For this reason, having a qualified web developer is suggested. Major version updates can be significant and should be reviewed carefully to be sure consistency post upgrade. That being said, the upgrade process is relatively smooth.

We needed a mobile responsive web site that could meet a variety of needs that an educational institution would require in 2020 and beyond. There are functions such as defining how to utilize a headless strategy for managing systems with dotCMS as the core. Also useful is how to handle authentication with with Active Directory which is helpful for enterprises.