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4.1
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dotCMS Reviews & Product Details

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What is dotCMS?

DotCMS is a content management software that offers a user-friendly platform for creating and managing digital content. With multi-language support, customizable templates, content personalization, and a robust API for integrating with other systems, dotCMS allows for easy integration with other systems and a wide range of integrations and plugins, making it a versatile tool for businesses of all sizes. Furthermore, its responsive design and user-friendly interface make it easy for teams to work together and publish content quickly and efficiently.

Company dotCMS LLC
Year founded 2003
Company size 51-200 employees
Headquarters Miami, Florida, United States
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dotCMS Product Details
Capabilities
API
CLI
OSS
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
dotCMS Features
API-first Architecture
Analytics/Reporting
Backup & Restore
Collaboration Tools
Content Modeling
Content Previews
Content Scheduling
Content Search
Content Tagging & Categorization
Content Versioning
Content Workflows
Custom Content Types
Customizable Content Delivery
Developer-friendly SDKs
GraphQL Support
Headless Ecommerce Integration
Localization
Media Library
Multi-language Support
Multi-site Management
Performance Optimization
Personalization
RESTful API
Rich Text Editor
SEO Management
Scalability
Security & Authentication
Third-party Integrations
User Role Management
Webhooks
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96 dotCMS Reviews
4.1 out of 5
Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 16, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Melissa j. avatar
Melissa J.
Software Engineering Lead
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"dotCMS is the most advanced hybrid content management system (CMS)"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

This program is a good ready-to-use solution for all organizations and fairly easy to use. It also has many built-in features and custom content types and flexibility. More, This tool can also meet our needs well. Furthermore, its maintenance staff can be up and running within minutes.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

This platform is complicated and using images is troublesome. In addition to its extensive documentation, the software still has some old features that need to be improved. The platform also has some restrictions on the type of data in the content structure. The price of dotCMS also makes its technical management more difficult.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

This program mainly has a cloud-based system, which is easy to use and allows us to start publishing content and assets immediately. More, dotCMS Cloud enables us to build a powerful, engaging, and continuous customer experience across all our channel.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 15, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
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Stephen E.
Agile Development Manager
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"dotCMS is a strong enterprise CMS. Not for everyone, helps to have an internal tech team."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

Its flexibility. We can custom develop nearly anything we need.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Difficulty and time spent on upgrades. Not a straight-forward process.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We manage multiple sites across our global organization with dotCMS

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 12, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Kelvin E. avatar
Kelvin E.
Agile Delivery Manager
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"Easy to create very flexible website and headless content"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

DotCMS made possible to build very flexible websites with reusable components and templates which enables our content managers and designers to compose pages with different dynamic components in no time.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Some of the DotCMS entinties cannot be deployed through the pipelines which makes impossible to have a continues delivery, however, the push publishing helps on this process. The support and RCA in case of incidents can be improved further as it is already improved in the past year.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating headless content for mobile/desktop apps and flexible websites where content managers and designers can compose and create pages themself. DotCMS facilitates the review and publishing of new versions.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 05, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
KH
Khai H.
Head Of Frontend Development
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"Head of Frontend Development"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS provides a simple flat UI that anyone can use. We can set it up for all kind of users in the company to work on the system.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

It isn't open for 3rd party plugins. Some other platforms I used have a community where we can find some useful additional features.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Store contents for management and scale.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 01, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Alec R. avatar
Alec R.
Front End Web Developer
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"dotCMS is a good platform to manage and share content between sites."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The relationship and tagging features are great for delivering dynamic content across multiple sites. We can use tags to group related content and suggest content to users based on their tagging history. Relationships allow for content to be linked across pages dynamically.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The admin area for non-technical users is a little confusing. The way content creation works within our system means we need a large amount of training for users to utilize our full system.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Spreading and sharing information between sites is easy with tagging and relationships. Allows us to spread our research across a broad platform.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 04, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
Alex C. avatar
Alex C.
Senior Principal Cloud Solutions Architect
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"Price and features are great, but we we ran into a few challenges with SSO which was resolved"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The price and feature ratio was very good. Once we got our templates created everything works fantastic. Moreover, we were able to easily onboard business users without any technical background.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Permissions are very wonky. We had gotten all of our SSO configured and then it just disappeared with no explanation from the support team. This created several hours of rework which was frustrating. However, it is all working now and we haven't had any subsequent problems.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have dozens of sites that have been previously managed by various ad firms costing us a fortune. By leveraging DotCMS we were able to create unified platform for all of these web properties as well as achieve a significant savings. Moreover, we were able to solve all of our disability concerns.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 17, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
Nafi H. avatar
Nafi H.
Senior Software Engineer
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"Backend content management"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

Organization of content and search capability

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Inconsistent user experience while viewing/managing content

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Have better view of the content which are being processed Utilize elastic search capability

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 20, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
Kristoffer B. avatar
Kristoffer B.
Cms Developer
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"Good system for large sites"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The CMS is able to Handle a massive amount of content quite responsively. Searching using the index provides for fast queries. The cloud hosted environment is very stable and support is usually very quick. The extensibility of the system is very impressive. The plugin framework allows for adjusting or adding new features quickly. The ability to add plugins live without a restart allows for very fast testing and speeding up development times.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Sometimes the documentation can be a little frustrating to understand. Especially when getting into the more technical aspects of the system, there is frustratingly sparse explanations for how certain functions work.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The system is allowing for a very large number of users to access and edit only the content relevant to them. The permissioning of folder and system elements allows for fine grained control over who can access which features.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 25, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
Tad L. avatar
Tad L.
Website Content And Design Specialist
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"Powerful CMS for Complex Content"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

dotCMS brought our website down from thousands of separate files and pages into a well organized CMS that if much easier to manage. It also gave us the ability for other users within the company to add and edit content without having to go to the web team.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 07, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
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Leanna F.
Marketing Assistant For Residence Life
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"First it was confusing. Now I love it "
What do you like best about dotCMS?

It is very easy to update the Res Life web page using this program. It's fast, easy to use, and convenient.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The formatting tools are confusing, and I feel like there are a lot of useless ones that have easy access, but the more important ones are harder to get to

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are updating the page with important dates so that students know deadlines. It benefits out students a lot, because they know when all the important dates are

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 13, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
AF
Antony F.
It Is A Versatile, Efficient And Powerful Tool That Helps You Manage Projects.
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"It is a great option that helps you simplify the management and management of content."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

is a very versatile and adaptable tool, which allows you to manage the contents in a very dynamic way, thus achieving a new approach to these contents. Facilitating access and management of them.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

some of its functions can become really limited to handle, which makes it difficult and can diminish the utility of the tool.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

thanks to the functions that this tool offers, it is possible to manage and develop the contents in a very dynamic way, which helps to give a new focus and management to said contents.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
May 28, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
SR
Sonia R.
It Is An Excellent Option To Execute And Manage Various Projects In A Very Accessible Way.
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"is an efficient and powerful tool for managing content."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

It is a tool that gives you a lot of freedom of handling for different areas to manage content, allows you to edit and improve content, managing to develop content in the best way

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

It has certain limitations when developing and improving the content level content.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

is a good choice to manage and address business content in the best way, managing content in a very practical way

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 01, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
JK
Joe K.
Engineering Lead
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"Engineering Lead"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

I like that dotcms contains traditional and headless CMS options and paradigms.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I often find there is a lack of quality documentation available for newer versions of dotcms.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've used DOTCMS to build singlepage applications. We've realized integration easement using the headless components.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 27, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Awesome!"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

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

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 19, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Makes development simple"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handling contents posting in specific period and publishing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 25, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"dotCMS usability"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The only minor issue is removing history from published content.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Let copy writers provide content for web site easily.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Apr 27, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Robust features for building and maintaining a dynamic site"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 04, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"All in one package for online content management"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 26, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"dotCMS continues to be the best choice for Calvin University"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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.

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 21, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"I was quite impressed by the concept and implementation"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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

What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content management, and reusable frontend components