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Cascade CMS Overview

What is Cascade CMS?

Cascade CMS (formerly Cascade Server) by Hannon Hill is an award-winning content management system that takes enterprise web strategy to the next level. It has built-in tools to eliminate stale content, increase digital outreach, and promote end-user adoption and accountability. Cascade CMS is designed for decentralized web teams in most major industries, including higher education, government, healthcare, and technology. Clive is Hannon Hill's engagement and real-time personalization tool for collecting information and using it to craft the personalized web experiences visitors crave. Build profiles and engage with audiences through targeted content delivery.

Cascade CMS Details
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Product Description

The content management system of choice for those who value maximum flexibility and the most predictable cost of ownership.


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Year Founded
2001
HQ Location
Atlanta, GA
Twitter
@hannon_hill
1,217 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Cascade simple but also not simple"
I like that Cascade allows users to save multiple drafts of web content and that it can also send those drafts for review. It also allows users to ...
Peter C.
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Peter C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Flexible & powerful CMS optimized for higher education"
Very customizable and powerful once you learn and understand the underlying data structures. Comprehensive REST API that allows for interaction wit...
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James T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Cascade has been great!"
It's a well-organized platform that's easy to use and train people on/in.
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Cascade CMS Pros and Cons

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Director of Web and Design
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

The most helpful feature of Cascade CMS is its flexibility. You are not locked in to a particular UI or UX - it becomes what you make of it. The CMS editing interface is yours to describe and build, the data architecture is yours to manipulate. If you can imagine it, you can build it with Cascade, with whatever your preferred server- and client-side language(s) are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

The downside to Cascade is the amount of resources needed for a fast implementation. It is resource-hungry, and if your websites get too large, you will definitely notice some speed and efficiency hits to your self-hosted solution. As long as you are willing to invest in hardware upgrades in the long term, Cascade is a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS:

Cascade CMS is a great choice for enterprise-level content management. You will need to use their implementation of Velocity templating language, and be familiar with XML and structured content markup. But once you get the hang of it it is a powerful solution and almost infinitely flexible. .NET and PHP are both well-suited for use within Cascade depending on preference. We even have some old ColdFusion running in there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem we were solving was using a reliable, flexible, extensible, platform-agnostic CMS to power our higher ed web sites. While other universities have moved to a Wordpress model, we wanted something more robust without 3rd party dependencies. Cascade has a nice user interface for our casual users as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Norris Center Supervisor
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

Easy to nest things, easy to upload multimedia Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

Not good with copy and past functions functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not consistent with text size/formatting. It does the job and creates the pages we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

I will be honest I know little to nothing about web design. Cascade CMS was easy to use even for someone like me with ZERO experience outside of being a user. I was able to design layouts based on how my preferred style and asthetic and others were easily able to add and edit content, as well as design aspects as needed. It's a great product for a team environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

As a self confessed novice, updating the software was a little tricky. I was always able to figure it out, only occasionally needing help from someone from it, but it was complicated enough that it made me nervous. someone with more experience would probably find it completely reasonable, but again, novice here... I felt like it was harder than it should be Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building websites in collaboration with other team members. Made the process much easier and reduced duplicate work/effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

Cascade is relatively easy to use once you are familiar with the platform and its layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

It can be a bit rudimentary and it is difficult for beginner users to perform more complex tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS:

Cascade is probably one of the easiest professional CMS platforms around. While it is not as intuitive (the way we have it configured) as some others that allow for drag and drop layouts and such, it does provide easy ways to update content. I'm not sure how well it handles building things from scratch as I was not integral to that process, but it does handle basic daily functions well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our website is based on Cascade. It is easy to give multiple users access to as much or little content as you wish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kimberly S.
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Human Resources/Payroll Manager
Higher Education
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

Easy to use once you learn it and the look is nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

There are too many steps to publish content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our website is built using cascade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

I love the push based publishing of Cascade CMS. This allows our website to have virtually 24/7 365 operation since there is no database dependency for basic operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

There are no significant items I am dissatisfied with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS:

This is a great product supported by a great organization in Hannon Hill that cares for and listens to its customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Cascade to manage our entire enterprise website with over 400+ publishers and 300+ sub-sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

Cascade CMS make no assumptions about your content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

Without previous experience, professional training and implementation assistance is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a custom user interface for specialized content layout and publication workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

I use Cascade to update content on a number of university websites. Understanding of coding is not necessary and the CMS has been seemingly easy for our web services team to manage and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

There are multiple steps required to publish content. While this is helpful from a quality control standpoint, it does require additional time to publish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our marketing and communication function is somewhat decentralized. Cascade has allowed us to equip lead users with the ability to manage content on their pages, while limiting decisions related to look/feel, site organization and navigation to our web services colleagues. This has created significant efficiencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

very easy to learn even for those who do not have any web content management experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

To publish a content sometimes you have to publish the entire contents. Otherwise, the link of new content doesn't work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to update information regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cascade CMS?

Not too much, it doesn't crash on my, I guess that's one thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cascade CMS?

Requires very specialized knowledge to customize templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping track of customers and making sure we contact them in a timely fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.