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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
HQ Location
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 Media

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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PV
Head of web strategy and ecommerce
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Contensis?

One of those evolutions has involved us switching to the cloud-based solution, which has allowed us to stay on top of upgrades with no downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

There are no dislikes, other than we don't have the scale internally to have our developers and so we use Zengenti as a development team, but this is our choice and an additional service they offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As we represent the business for content expertise, the Contensis content management platform has helped us takes a structured approach to content while giving our business users the flexibility they need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hi Paul,

Thanks so much for your glowing review. 🌟

We are pleased to hear our CMS, Contensis has helped with your content and provided flexibility where it's most needed.

We hope you continue to enjoy working with Contensis 🚀

SH
Digital Content Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Contensis?

The flexibility to design any possible solution that we need to tailor our website to our website users, and at the same time make it make look very professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Contensis as a product is in constant evolution that sometimes impacts the workflow for website editors, where the workflow may not always appear logical and requires substantial editor training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our website is in constant evolution, and it is difficult to know what problems may come our way, but Contensis' flexibility has always been able to solve it. At the moment we are linking up with other data sources to display non-native data on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey Susanna,

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

We’re pleased that our CMS provides flexibility to your ever-evolving website.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Contensis?

The platform is reliable and enables us to deliver our web requirements. The team at Zengenti are responsive and supportive of our requirements and understanding of the challenges of a large beaurocratic institution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

The platform can struggle when the volumne of traffic is quite high. We'd expect the platform to dynamically support increased traffic volumes but that isn't always the case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Zengenti have quite a few public sector and higher education institutions as clients so we do benefit from that experience. The platform itself is relatively robust and gives an us freedom to develop as we need to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey,

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

David C.
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Senior Project Manager
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What do you like best about Contensis?

It's slick, easy to use, and very customisable. It's also very strong on the accessibility front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Nothing much, really. Yet to find any significant drawbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Contensis allows us to deliver content across our local government web estate with significant cost savings versus traditional open-source software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Olivia Turner of Contensis

Hey David,

Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review. We really value your feedback, and we’ll pass this on to our product team. They'll be pleased to hear your comment on accessibility! 👌

We hope you continue to enjoy working with Contensis 🚀

AT
Lead Content Designer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Contensis?

Clean, modern and accessible backend UI. It's a great experience as a content author or system admin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

No significant dislikes, we like the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing a lot of local government data (webpages, documents, images, videos, elected representative profiles, etc.) Contensis is slick and highly usable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Olivia Turner of Contensis

Hey Andy,

Thanks so much for taking the time to review Contensis. We’re so pleased that you enjoy our CMS. 🎉

SG
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What do you like best about Contensis?

Flexibility of software and releases from contensis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Sometimes a glitchy response can be masked by alternate factors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Allowing wed traffic to resolve with the least resistance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey Steve,

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

We value your feedback and will pass this on to our product team.

MR
Digital Publishing and Content Strategy Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Contensis?

Contensis makes editing and approving content straightforward, and it is easy to go back and correct submitted content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

Currently there are no email alerts attached to the publishing workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Contensis enables us to manage content from multiple departments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey Melissa,

Thanks so much for your glowing review. 🌟

Some really exciting features are coming in the next couple of Contensis releases that you can view via our productboard, including "Workflow notifications for entries."

We hope you continue to enjoy working with Contensis. 🚀

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Verified User in Government Administration
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What do you like best about Contensis?

Simple and easy-to-use content management system that flexibly allows us to manage a range of different websites. Always get excellent service from the team with good knowledge and expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

There's nothing big we don't like. A few little bits around notifications of content approvals in content types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're always looking to evolve and improve our websites for our users and contensis helps us do this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laura McCullough of Contensis

Hey there,

Thanks so much for your glowing review. 🌟

Some exciting features are coming in the next couple of Contensis releases that you can view via our productboard, including "workflow notifications for entries."

See how Contensis improved
Francesco M.
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Web Communications Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Contensis?

The team work with the Zengenti team is excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

I wish there were more in-person working group meetings like it used to be before the pandemic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Contensis as a main platform to manage our Institutional Website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Olivia Turner of Contensis

Hey Francesco,

Thank you for taking the time to review Contensis.

We've missed our in-person events too, but rest assured we're looking at picking these back up in 2023. 👀

We will keep you posted!

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What do you like best about Contensis?

We like the flexibility Contensis gives us to create our website and intranet content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Contensis?

There are no downsides to using Contensis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Provides the website to our external and internal stakeholders and intranet to our internal stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Olivia Turner of Contensis

Hey there,

Thanks so much for taking the time to review our product, Contensis. We’re so pleased that you enjoy our CMS. 🎉