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Contensis Overview

What is Contensis?

Contensis is a headless Content Management System (CMS) with an integrated deployment platform. It’s built by UK-based company, Zengenti. It provides a single place to create, maintain and deliver your content. Its content modelling, authoring, and governance features help you and your teams to create and keep on top of well-structured content. Open APIs make it easy to integrate with leading platforms and products to deliver immersive digital experiences for your customers. Contensis powers websites for world-leading organisations across various industries such as higher education, local government, and the private sector.

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Contensis is an enterprise CMS that powers the websites of organisations in a single place to create, maintain & publish content.


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Zengenti
Year Founded
2001
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Ludlow, Shropshire
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Paul R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The pros and pros of using Contensis!"
The platform it excellent for those beginning their journey into a career in editorial work. However it can also be utilised by those more proficie...
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Okon N.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A modern and solid CMS solution"
The platform is straightforward to use with a clean, modern interface. Zengenti are constantly working to improve the platform with regular updates...
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Harshil T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Very good interface and speedy customer service"
Contensis has modernised itself dramatically over the past 2 years which has helped our users and admins navigate and publish content with ease.
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Contensis Demo - Email notifications in Contensis
Notify your colleagues via email when you make changes in Contensis.
Contensis Demo - Canvas editor in Contensis
Unleash your creativity with our new block-based text editor.
Contensis Demo - An empty Content Type editor screen
This is the starting point when creating a new Content Type, the screenshot shows some of the default fields available for a Content Type.
Contensis Demo - Content Type editor screen
This is the Content Type editor screen in Contensis.
Contensis Demo - Entry editor screen
This is the Entry editor screen in Contensis.
Contensis Demo - Entry editor screen with location field
This screenshot demonstrates the location field in an Entry editor screen.
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Contensis Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Contensis?

The system is able to manage many hundreds of editors, thousands of pages and assets in a very simple, easy to use way.

We’ve used the system now for well over a decade for multiple sites and it’s proved reliable and adaptable for our needs.

The support and maintenance side has kept us up-to-date allowing us to reach our global audience with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

After almost 10 years of the "old fashioned" code model the move to react was quite a steep learning curve for us. However, now we are a couple of years in we are seeing major benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We host the main public website, plus two - soon to be three smaller business sites. We also have a password protected "intranet" running from Contensis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Olivia Turner of Contensis

Hey!

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience using our product, Contensis. We're thrilled to hear that you find our CMS to be simple and easy to use and can reach your global audience with ease😃

We understand the importance of keeping up with the latest technology and constantly update our product to ensure it meets our users' needs. If you have any suggestions for how we can improve Contensis, please don't hesitate to let us know.

We hope you continue to enjoy working with Contensis for the next decade! 🚀

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What do you like best about Contensis?

Contensis is headless, allowing developers to create web applications in the language that works for them. The CMS interface is clean and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Contensis have developed their product very rapidly and there is a shortfall in documentation, which is currently being addressed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We need a system to quickly build and deploy a variety of web sites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey Andy,

Thank you for taking the time to review our product, Contensis. 🌟

It's great you could join us for Zengenti Velocity. We hope you had a good day.

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What do you like best about Contensis?

Although it is initially confusing developing components in Contensis it becomes more familiar and versatile.

We have been using the classic version but am happy that a migration pathway is becoming available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Highly capable but still has room for improvement with forms.

Some quirks that can prove challenging without prior knowledge of the full ui options.

I also don't like that you only have one thing open at a time.

Support hub is a bit challenging to keep track of tickets sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It enables us to deliver our main website and a number of micro sites within the same interface and have a workflow and retention schedule for content.

We have multiple content creators and do use some of the logged in user features.

It has been reliable for many years Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey,

Thank you for taking the time to review Contensis.

At Zengenti, we're committed to continually improving our product to meet the evolving needs of our users. We appreciate your feedback and support.

Thank you for joining us at Zengenti Velocity. We hope you had an enjoyable day.

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

I like that it's user-friendly - as someone who is more creative than technical, I can work easily in contensis. I'm very much looking forward to the new Canvas tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Uploading images to the banner is very frustrating as I have to use photoshop beforehand to size the image correctly. Also, not having the option of deleting multiple items at the same time creates very time-consuming tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The use of Canvas - as I'm in charge of our new blogs section, this new tool will make the writing and uploading process much easier.

Link re-directs - this tool is much better than the old way of doing it.

Insytful - a very powerful tool that has highlighted issues that we really need to focus on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey,

Thank you for taking the time to review our product Contensis 🌟

I'm glad you are looking forward to the new Canvas tool, as we are excited about this, too.

Thanks again for your kind words and for choosing Contensis as your CMS of choice.

SB
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Contensis?

Contensis has allowed us to fulfil our business objectives since it replaced our previous CMS (Immediacy) in 2015. During our procurement process, we needed to find an innovative and friendly CMS company. Zengenti is both.

By using the Enterprise edition on a cloud-hosted platform, we've been able to support our associated businesses, and we currently have 15 websites powered by the CMS - including our main council website and intranet. Because we use cloud hosting, the Zengenti team handle all of our upgrades and support. This allows us to focus on our responsibilities rather than the CMS's working environment.

The introduction of content types and entries has proved to be a substantial progression for us. We currently use content types and entries with Vue.js code on Contensis Classic. As all our sites are using Contensis Classic, we're now looking into expanding the server-side delivery with blocks. As we have the latest version and the reverse proxy option, we hope to be able to deliver this incrementally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

It's difficult to find anything negative after working with Contensis for the past eight years and witnessing its growth. We understand the ongoing evolution of the headless CMS while remaining confident that Contensis Classic remains a powerful content management system for large organisations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Enterprise CMS on a cloud-hosted platform allows us to focus on our responsibilities rather than the CMS's working environment. Because we use cloud hosting, the Zengenti team handles all of our upgrades and support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey Steve,

Wow, thank you so much for such a glowing review! 🌟

I can't wait to share your feedback with the wider team, particularly - "During our procurement process, we needed to find an innovative and friendly CMS company. Zengenti is both."

It's great to hear that Contensis has helped with substantial progression for you and the team, and we hope you continue to enjoy using our CMS.

Thanks again for taking the time to review Contensis.

KJ
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What do you like best about Contensis?

The content management system is easy for developers and content editors to navigate and use and has a simple user interface. Content editors can manage their pages and content without experience with development code. The content management system allows us to use multiple development languages and keeps our web presence modern and up-to-date with emerging technologies.

The product is kept up-to-date, with regular updates; the support provided by Zengenti is also good, with the provision of a standard help desk and an active community on Slack.

Zengenti also provides a series of regular webinars to learn about new features or essential industry development topics, such as digital accessibility and search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

If you do not currently have REACT developers employed, there can be a steep learning curve when using a headless content management system over a traditional one. We found this to be our only challenge. However we still have the option to use Contensis Classic, which we are currently happy with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Contensis to manage our public-facing website, our staff intranet platform, and an additional microsite. Contensis keeps these three projects grouped and provides a harmonious user interface to manage content across these three locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Olivia Turner of Contensis

Hey Kieran,

Thank you for sharing your positive experience using Contensis! 🌟

It's great to hear that you find our content management system easy to use for both developers and content editors, and that it allows you to keep your web presence up-to-date with emerging technologies.

It's also fantastic to hear that Contensis has solved your problem of managing multiple projects and providing a harmonious UI for your public-facing website, staff intranet platform, and additional microsite.

We hope you continue to enjoy working with Contensis 🚀

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What do you like best about Contensis?

Contensis is intuitive and includes many great features that help guide our subject matter experts as they use the system and enter content. The ability to customize content types by adding fields with different properties (i.e. text fields, rich text formats, images, accordion lists, etc.) makes it really easy to create sections and pages tailored to user needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

We have multiple subject matter experts that approve content depending on the topic, however, there is no way in Contensis to send content for approval to a specific approver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Contensis allowed us to create a dynamic digital tool based on previously available content in a print-only format. This has allowed users to access customized content based on their needs and has allowed subject matter experts to provide the most up-to-date content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey,

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback on Contensis. 🤗

We're always working on improving our product, and hearing user feedback is instrumental to that.

We hope you continue to enjoy working with Contensis.

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

Contensis, in cloud form, is an incredibly easy, user friendly CMS which has a large number of extremely useful features built in. It's generally stable and can cope with the demands of a large organisation. The ease of creating and editing pages is the biggest plus point in my role. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Broadly speaking, there's not much I don't like. I feel that the permissions system could be easier to use by removing or at least making it optional to remove some layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's our digital shop window, recruitment, marketing, and brand hub. It is enabling us to have a modern and high quality digital presence and helping us push a narrative as well as a brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey there,

Thanks so much for taking the time to review our product, Contensis.

We’re so pleased that you find the CMS easy and user-friendly. 🎉

Thanks for joining us at Zengenti Velocity. We hope you had a great day!

Meryem M.
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What do you like best about Contensis?

Contensis is continuously developed and worked on to be the best version of itself and of cms systems out there. Their level of support is also really beneficial to our success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

My dislikes although minor, have actually been covered as new developments during their recent velocity event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

User experience and the tolls available to make it easier for editors to create pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey Meryem,

Thank you for sharing your positive experience using Contensis! 🌟

We hope you enjoyed your day at Zengenti Velocity. Thank you for joining us.

Thanks again for your kind words and for choosing Contensis as your CMS of choice. 🚀

CL
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What do you like best about Contensis?

Contensis is an easy to use flexible content management system. It makes managing a website so easy whilst making sure your website stays on brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

I can't think of anything that I dial like about contensis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Contensis helps us manage lots of content easily in one place. It allows us to make updates to our website quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey Chris,

Wow, thank you for such an excellent review of Contensis 🤩 we're pleased to hear that it makes managing a website so easy.

Thank you for joining us at Zengenti Velocity. We hope you had a great day 😃