dotCMS Reviews & Product Details

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

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.

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.

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.

I like the flexibility that dotCMS provides. We use dotCMS both headless as well as the 'traditional' way. We had some trouble setting it up, because of our specific enterprise setup, but the customer service did a great job assisting us. We use dotCMS for several years now and we manage over 30 websites.

It was really challenging for us to update and I think it's because we do not have an out-of-the-box setup and requires some manually configuration. But again we always got the right support!

10 years ago we were still managing 70+ websites manually (html/css -> ftp). After we installed dotCMS we could finally let our marketing department edit the content.

Cloud hosting is very reliable and well supported

Has a bit of a learning curve and requires a good front-end developer to utilize fully

dotCMS supports multiple hosts for our organization, including an internal portal which requires user authentication through the SAML plugin.

Standard features are easy to use and workflow fits easily into most business's workflow.

Consuming webservices requires programing knowledge.

Extend more features and ability to remote office to publish local content and at the same time proof read them centrally.

What we need first is a tool that let us create relational database collections without limit, with GraphQL to access our data. That's what we found and many more. There no limit with data collections , projects, entries and it's very powerfull regardless of its elasticsearch and caching capabilities. The onboarding was very easy, supported by great people.

We first try the server version which is very difficult to install on premise. The cloud version is a charm compare to it.

We can now upgrade a massive number of website and benefit from an integrated workflow to deploy our content. Thanks to the versioning of every entry that gather all changes and give us the chance to roll back innapropriate changes.

The build in functionality that dotcms offers in terms of the demo Project is one of the most helpful thing. Developing website using the demo as an example helps to ease the process.

There is not as much documentation on dotcms in terms of issues and errors. `

Trying to develop a website. Development of webpages and templates is really made easy using dotCMS

Headless CMS approach open source Java based concept of osgi plugin multi-site admin

push publishing feature does not work seamlessly.. installation without enterprise licence connecting to ldap puts the database in inconsistent state.

many sites built with dotcms, some using it as headless CMS

changes on this platform are easy to be made. Front end is so simplified. users can easily edit and add contents. has Lots of built-in features and the custom content types and flexibility.

Permissions can be difficult and involved to set up and maintain

User exp