Enonic Reviews & Product Details

My favourite part of Enonic XP is the flexibility the platform provides and the helpful community on discuss.enonic.com and their Slack community. Enonic XP can be used for both small, medium and large websites, in both a traditional monilithic way and pure headless, or even a hybrid. This makes the platform perfect for us, at it allows ut to build user-focused experiences without being forced by the platform to do things in a particular way. Our developers love being able to choose wether to code in pure JavaScript or TypeScript or even use frameworks such as Vue or React. The content editors also enjoy the freedom and flexibility of Content Studio, allowing them to either use templates when building content, or engaging their creativity and make a completely different page optimized for a particular use-case.

The documentation could be better and include more complex examples. It would also be nice if there were more apps on market.enonic.com. Even though Elasticsearch is great, the version bundled with Enonic is not the newest, and we would love to have more access to the index.

We use Enonic XP hosted in Enonic Cloud to help our customers serve their users and customers great online experiences. Ranging from corporate information sites, through webshops to intranets, Enonic XP can do it all.

I like the user interface, it is easy to learn and easy to use for me as a web editor.

I'm not sure if I have any specific down sides, but sometimes it can take a while for Enonic to develop features we ask for thru our partner. But they listen and take our suggestions into account.

We use Enonic XP as our CMS and are very satisfied with the product. Our partner Bouvet handles everything so we don't really contact Enonic that often, but we do attend some webinars and have yearly meetings.

Lots of possibilities. Dynamic. Good user interface

We experience sometimes that errors appear, and that it can be hard to see where to adress it - whether it is Enonic or the developer.

We have more control over the content and what to put on the index page e.g. It's more flexible and gives us more possibilities.

The Enonic platform makes it easy for developers to write custom code that suits our customers.

The documentation can be better written and documented.

Content Studio is the content management interface the Enonic platform features. It is both editors friendly and provides advanced tools for developing.

Efficient and easy to publish, nice lay out

No downsides, and I do not miss anything

Efficient and straightforward internal communication channel

The possibility to work in the same CMS for more than one member of same team when you have several sites to administrate. Makes the job faster and easier.

Nothing special, would like to have help for several languages - but I know this will come in the next version.

We have one website with 4 different languages and 3 other different sites that my team is responsible for. All of us can login at the same time and see and do updates in one place. Saves a lot of time and frustration we used to have with our old CMS, logging in and out and not being able to see what changes we did, which we need to do at the other sites.

The now proven transformation from a traditional CMS with many limitations, to a now fully flexible build-anything platform that runs well in the cloud. We are now moving from on-premise servers to hosting in the cloud with very little effort.

The support community, mostly on Slack, is excellent. If anything, I would love to see an improvement in tutorials and code examples that could inspire us to take more advantage of the platform.

We run several web sites on Enonic, many with fairly heavy traffic. It just works, in six years we have created fewer than six support tickets.

- Very agile platform based on javascript that's easy for developers to use. - You're up and running with a server in a few minutes and it's just works. Migrating and exporting data is easy too. - Lots of plugins / Apps on the markedplace to solve common usecases like GA/GTM, SEO ++ - Forum and slack-channel for communcating directly with Enonic staff and other users and enterprise support option - Cloud based subscription - Open source and free

- Upgrading to new major versions requires a lot of work and testing and the more applications and sites you have the longer each major upgrade takes. - The backend implementation of how data is stored not optimal resulting in an ever growing folder of files and folders that are not in use. - None (or few) out of the box sites to use. You have to setup/develop everyting from scratch. - Content Studio feels like it's made by developes for developers and can be hard to use in some cases

One platform for all our cms needs and a more streamlined development processes.

Users can manage their own content for their website.

No standard way to implement certain things, little example code or explenation from libraries which are not standard

Custom webpage administered by non technical people

I was first introduced to Enonic XP7 when I was still attending Uni. The solution was easy to get into, as the stack uses languages and technology most are already familiar with. Now, after having used XP for some years, I am still satisfied, and the product keeps on getting better. There's always something new and exciting getting released for their product, and I can't wait what the future of this product will be. The staff at Enonic are easy to get in touch with, either on their forum or their Slack, and the community helps each other out with issues and problem solving. I have briefly used similar CMS solutions, like Optimizely (formerly Episerver). They ship out a robust product, which is too grand from the start. XP on the other hand, takes less than a day to learn and begin developing in, without any unnecessary overhang.

As with everything, XP is not perfect. The company and product have existed for years, yet some areas it's not as polished as one would expect it to be. I do miss having more restrictions on parts - how many are allowed on a page, or in which area you're allowed to place some, but not others. Also, there's a lack of configurability for the WYSIWYG-editor. I have found areas where I'd love to add custom fonts or styling to text, yet not being able to add new, just alter the existing ones. One solution of course would be inserting macros, but that's not the perfect solution to possibly inexperienced editors.

XP's tasks have helped me out a lot in a project, where it's scheduled to run daily and retrieve data from an external source. After having done so, it generates content based off of the data, and doesn't overwrite existing, yet updating the changes flawlessly.

An editor-friendly editor, quick access to all content on site with elastic search, flexible solution.

It annoys me a LOT that the browser spellcheck still does not work in titles.

We use Enonic as the publishing platform for an online news site with ads.

The layer structure fits our international company structure well and fuels collaboration between content departments. On the developer side I find that we have solutions to almost all of our wants and needs and it's well integrated with our visual profile. I like the overall flexibility; from working with tags for our content, tasks between content editors, the site and search function are super fast, moving and sharing content. As a content editor the platform works great.

The layer structure makes all the pages from the parent page visible on the "child" pages. I know that they're working on a fix for this in a release coming soon. I also miss Digital Assets Management, even though our developers have developed a similar function through the layer function which works almost just as well.

Our SEO work and ranking have significantly improved after we migrated to Enonic XP. The benefits with the layer function have been several as our communication team across countries collaborate closely and Enonic XP is just the right tool for us to share and collaborate on content and structure.

The total control you have of the metadata for your project. The structures give reusable data/fragments that are easy to implement for both developer and maintainer.

It would be best if you were a skilled javascript developer to start maintaining a project. It requires more of you as a developer, and it can be confusing that the server-side javascript doesn't support npm packages.

We are making a homepage for a political party. The reuse of fragments and data is the most significant benefit of Enonic. Accessible tools and wizards to start a new project.

I've been using Enonic for close to a year now. From what I've experienced, I've seen a lot of capabilities. Everything that I needed to implement I have found a clean way to do, and when not natively, you can implement a Java extension to do what is required. It's an excellent and versatile development experience. One really nice thing is that the support through Discuss forum and Slack works very well, and you talk directly to the skilled and friendly people who are developing the features. The last thing that is worth mentioning is that the learning curve is not high. The idea of development is a bit unique, but once you understand it through the documentation, you can become productive with Enonic relatively fast.

- The docummentation is well written, but IMHO I believe that there is space to improve it with more examples; - The community is not huge since It's not a wide known technology yet; - There isn't a lot of apps in the Enonic market;

In the last company that I worked on, the team was using Enonic as the primary platform for development, building complex web apps using server-side javascript (or typescript). There's also room to do many cool things using modern front-end frameworks such as Vue and React, for example.

It´s easy to get the hang of Enonic XP. As a content editor, you get a sense of endless possibilities. You can use templates or build pages by drag-and-drop. Together with a good developer, you can make almost anything. In addition, there are several useful apps on Enonic market. We use Enonic XP for our relatively small web platform and look forward to scaling up in the future. I like: - Issues management - Image handling - Version comparison Also, the team at Enonic is fast to respond, polite, and always very thorough. You get in contact with them and the rest of the community through Slack and the user forum.

- Some of the apps on Enonic market is quite simple.

We have recently moved our web platform into Enonic XP. Benefits: - Building pages is fast - Low-level content creators can use the site with ease - Up-to-date technology (headless) gives us many possibilities

Enonic is versatile, robust and user-friendly. I love the hybrid approach, combining both headless and traditional editorial functionality. We use it for multiple sites at Gjensidige, and have successfully integrated it with our design system.

I would have liked an even bigger community, so please consider trying it out.

We use it as a key part of our web platform for both internal and customer-facing digital services in four different countries. Works great on-prem and in the cloud, and both for developers, digital editors and content designers.

Enonic is easy to learn for users, developers and operators. It is a modern, light, modular CMS with a lot of features and flexibility. Integrating React-components for the frontend is easy. Server-side-rendering is part of the solution and implemented by setting a parameter. enonic does not need a separate database and elasticsearch is used for indexing the content. Other powerful features are: - query, filter and aggregate data - define properties on site , component and content -level with xml-files and generate forms for users - define layouts - page composition - image-handling (it is possible to process images in real time, e.g. resize an image) - APIs for everything - Multi-Site Handling - enhance features through apps from app-store - exporting and importing content - and a lot more

There are currently no integrations with eCommerce-Solutions. For React the Integration with UI-Frameworks like Material-UI or Chakra-UI (or any other frameworks based on Styled Systems) is currently not possible. For SSR nashorn, which is deprecated is used. Migration to GralVM is on the Roadmap.

Integrate Web-Applications based on React into our homepages and build dynamic webpages

It is a very open system and has a lot of relevant logic within. For our editors it is easy to understand and to work with. I also like the fact that it is PWA compatatible

The market place for add on could contain some more add ons.

We have built a media platform for all clubs in the top two divisions in soccer in Norway. All clubs have their own identity and share all concepts when it comes to design, modules and integrations. It is a system that is easy to scale as well as reuse for several different clubs.

- Good balance between being powerful and easy to use - A very "full-featured" CMS - I can develop in TypeScript (or JavaScript) with the npm ecosystem backend too, but use Java in cases where library support is better in Java - I feel I have to good palette of tools to create good experiences for my content creators in Content Studio

- Developers can experience a bit long build times (if you are using the WebKit starter). - The community isn't very large.

As a developer, I make both web pages and web applications with Enonic XP. I think I can work very effectively to create robust and enjoyable applications for my customers.

Enonic allocates an extended range pf digital experience tools that makes it easy to create and design websites.

Domain registration at Enonic is a bit expensive compared to Namesilo, but I point it via nameservers and DNS.

It makes it straightforward to manage website contents. Website design and development.