dotCMS Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We manage multiple sites across our global organization with 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Store contents for management and scale.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Organization of content and search capability

Inconsistent user experience while viewing/managing content

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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