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dotCMS Reviews

User Rating

4.3/5 (Based on 128 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

  • Excellent

    47.7%
  • Very Good

    41.4%
  • Average

    8.6%
  • Poor

    1.6%
  • Terrible

    0.8%

User Sentiments

Flexible CMS, Excellent Customer Support, Intuitive User Interface, Extensive Integrations

Steep Learning Curve, Occasional Bugs, Complex Upgrades, Limited Customization Options

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Review Summary

Overall, users find the product easy to use and implement, with a user-friendly interface and straightforward setup process. They appreciate the flexibility and customization options it offers, allowing them to tailor the platform to their specific needs. Additionally, users praise the product's scalability and reliability, highlighting its ability to handle high traffic and complex content management requirements. However, some users have expressed concerns about the product's cost and the availability of certain features, suggesting that it may not be suitable for all budgets or requirements.

Pros

  • Extensive customization options for building intricate websites and online stores.
  • Robust content management features, including multilanguage support and version control.
  • Userfriendly interface with draganddrop functionality for easy content updates.

Cons

  • Steep learning curve for new users, requiring significant training and onboarding.
  • Limited thirdparty integrations compared to some competitors.
  • Occasional performance issues and slow loading times reported by some users.

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Reviews
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Cherry W

October 26, 2023 Source: G2.com
"''Managing, Creating and Delivering advanced content with dotCMS.''"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

There are several things this platform is enabling us to perform, some being;

1; Creating and managing advanced contents.

2; Apart from our brand, I also manage content types across multiple languages.

3; Several content types across multiple languages are well enlightened while using this tool.

4; Editing features are great working with.

Most importantly the platform feels more secure and scalable enhancing our workflow and tasks manipulation.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Personally I feel that something should be done to improve the customization features to be more appealing.

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

With the platform I easily manage large database and also enable strong backed settings. This has allowed ease content editing and probing.

Adapting easily to audience has brought about distribution of significant information across multiple channels.

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Lawrence E

July 31, 2023 Source: G2.com
"dotCMS, a well built and flexible CMS"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The architecture of dotCMS is very flexible. You can integrate other enterprise components such as LDAP, caching with Redis, a CDN etc.. to really create a robust deployment. Additionally, the fact that its open source makes it even that much better.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I think the development experience with VTL templating could be improved if they were to support additional templating languages.

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

dotCMS allows us to host a multi site content management platform that is part of a larger content management ecosystem.

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Brian M

July 26, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Implementation of data heavy research website"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The support was fantastic. Their training was top notch and whenever we had questions or needed guidance, knowledgeable staff was accessible and helpful. This allowed us to be super efficient which was important because of the tight deadline.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

We needed to make use of its multi-site capability which we were able to do, but it took a little assistance from the dotCMS team to properly set up permissions and shared resources.

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

We were able to leverage an existing dotCMS installation to create a new, separate site without needing to train staff on a new system. This greatly accelerated the timeframe.

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Depak A

July 24, 2023 Source: G2.com
"expensive but worth it"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

When it comes to managing content, images and assets, dotCMS helps you do all that in one centralized location and deliver them to any channel with ease. Whether you are looking to build a network of global websites, an employee intranet, a customer portal or just a single page application, dotCMS got you covered.

DotCMS is also cost efficiency and it's easy to maintain.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

For CMS newbies, dotCMS may be a little overwhelming to use as it has a steep learning curve.

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

Web content creation has never been this fun. DotCMS has enabled us to build and manage content driven applications like websites and single page applications with so much ease.

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Jennifer W

July 24, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Very stable, user-friendly and advanced online content management system."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

What i like best about DotCMS is flexibility, simplicity and usability. It one of the best online content management system i have ever used. Since we started using it, it has provided a permanent solution for our needs. I like its UI which anyone can use without coding knowledge. DotCMS has the best and very responsive customer support team.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Unto today, i haven't yet experienced any challenges while using DotCMS so i got nothing to dislike about it.

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

DotCMS has a very simple and straightforward user interface that makes it extremely easy to learn and understand. It makes it super easy to manage content, assets and images. Since we started using DotCMS, it has been so easy to build large websites and it saves us much time and effort.

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Monicah W

July 19, 2023 Source: G2.com
"I've used DotCMS for less than a year and I'm enjoying it."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

I like the interface, it's unique design, usability, flexibility and simplicity. It allows content creators and designers to work efficiently on their systems without needing to know backend programming. DotCMS is able to handle massive amounts of content responsively.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

At first, the documentation was a little confusing and difficult to understand.

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

DotCMS is an excellent and recommendable system for creating large websites. I like the ability to add plug-ins live without a restart thus allowing for fast testing and speeding up development time. It is super easy to use and very functional for what we need.

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Laurry T

May 11, 2023 Source: G2.com
"A wonderful experience with dotCMS"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

Robust integrations. dotCMS has allowed for seemless integrations with the best CRMs, e-commerce platforms, marketing automation systems and so much more.

In a single platform, dotCMS has enabled us to manage assets, images and content without a problem.

dotCMS is cost efficiency and easy to maintain and work with.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

DotCMS has given us value for our money. It has helped us to quickly and convinient lye buid a multi channel content driven web applications. We have nothing to complain about.

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

Websites, mobile applications, single page applications etc. DotCMS has helped our organization to build, manage and deploy content enabled applications effectively.

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Varnice M

May 3, 2023 Source: G2.com
"The great dotCMS."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS has incredible publishing controls, a powerful content editing and publishing tools and robust integrations.

dotCMS enables business organizations to quickly build,manage and deploy a multi channel content.

dotCMS exposes everything including content using Rest APIs that enables high performances and secure integrations.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I have no complains about this platform. Everything has been working just fine so far.

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

In a single platform, dotCMS helps us manage content, images and assets as well as deliver them to any channel without hiccups. We are also able to share content across different departments without having to re_create them.

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Jim C

February 12, 2021 Source: G2.com
"Best kept secret in enterprise class CMS systems"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS is continuously improving to provide its customers with a best-in-class website design and development experience. It is extremely convenient to take advantage of their cloud offering so all you have to concentrate on is your actual website - they do the maintenance, hosting, etc.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Occasionally response times to reported issues are slower than I like. In reality, they are probably fine, but we live in an instantaneous gratification world.

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

We are using dotCMS to host/serve our core institutional website. It doesn't box us into a predefined set of rules. We have the flexibility to do what we need to do in order to serve the needs of our customers.

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Stefan M

April 15, 2020 Source: G2.com
"Fast & Good colaboration with the teams and easy learning of dotCMS"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The interface and the possibility of integration with all most everything.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I really can say that i found nothing that should i dislike since working with dotCMS and it's team

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

I very recommend this platform because it has big opportunities to be no#1.

Thanks to the clean code and thanks to the awsome team that is very proactive in giving support of any kind

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

Fast content editing / administration of source of components

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