dotCMS Erfahrungen

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.

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 It is often found to be out of date or inaccurate.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Getting satisfactory answers from support is sometimes frustrating.

Very simple to use, customizable, time to market

Expensive Enterprise license
Site documentation is poor

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.

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".

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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