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dotCMS Demo - dotCMS Dashboard
Collect, organize, and act on data and analytics to deliver a relevant customer experience
dotCMS Demo - Omni-channel CMS
Hybrid features and an SPA editor (Edit Mode Anywhere) for managing an omnichannel experience
dotCMS Demo - Edit Mode
Arrange and manage content in-context across for all channels.
dotCMS Demo - Layout Designer
Drag-and-drop to design custom layouts and templates that can be used across channels and devices.
dotCMS Demo - Content Types
Build rich content structures that can be used across sites and channels.
dotCMS Demo - Workflows
Fully customizable workflows and permissions allow simple yet secure governance of content and digital assets.
Simplify content creation and delivery to save costs and grow revenue. dotCMS goes beyond headless, allowing developers and content teams to consolidate digital experiences across channels.
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Simplify content creation and delivery to save costs and grow revenue. dotCMS goes beyond headless, allowing developers and content teams to consolidate digital experiences across channels.
Your content management needs are complicated, but your CMS doesn't have to be.
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Your content management needs are complicated, but your CMS doesn't have to be.
Hear from Nollymar Longa, dotCMS Team Lead in R&D, on how the dotCMS product has evolved over the last seven years.
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Hear from Nollymar Longa, dotCMS Team Lead in R&D, on how the dotCMS product has evolved over the last seven years.
Whether your site and content need to be optimized for performance or you’re going through a redesign, dotCMS's Experiments Feature can help you take the guesswork out of your business-critical content using real-life user data.
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Whether your site and content need to be optimized for performance or you’re going through a redesign, dotCMS's Experiments Feature can help you take the guesswork out of your business-critical content using real-life user data.
dotCMS Vice President of Product Preston So explores the future of CMS and discusses an industry-wide shift to the Universal CMS.
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dotCMS Vice President of Product Preston So explores the future of CMS and discusses an industry-wide shift to the Universal CMS.
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Users consistently praise the product for its flexibility and powerful support, allowing teams to manage complex content with ease. The intuitive interface and robust API capabilities enable both technical and non-technical users to create and publish content effectively. However, many note a common limitation in the steep learning curve for new users, which can hinder initial adoption.

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It is an excellent option to execute and manage various projects in a very accessible way.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"is an efficient and powerful tool for managing content."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

It is a tool that gives you a lot of freedom of handling for different areas to manage content, allows you to edit and improve content, managing to develop content in the best way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

It has certain limitations when developing and improving the content level content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KH
Head of Frontend Development
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Head of Frontend Development"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS provides a simple flat UI that anyone can use. We can set it up for all kind of users in the company to work on the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

It isn't open for 3rd party plugins. Some other platforms I used have a community where we can find some useful additional features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Billy F.
BF
VP, Business Development
Internet
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Great platform for our clients"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

As an implementation partner, dotCMS provides our team with excellent support and resources to ensure we're able to deliver the best experience for our clients. It's also an extremely easy platform to work with, which has enabled us to increase our speed-to-market and lower our implementation fees, opening room for much more ongoing enhancements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Brand awareness is fairly low, so sometimes it takes our clients a little longer to become familiar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great experience"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Powerful CMS with intuitive interface"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I wish it had a better calendar tool for front facing Calendar of Events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
AE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"dotCMS is pretty great"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

the system is an excellent way to curate abstract content and create websites according to content strategy best practices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to use. Great support. They listen to customers and integrate feedback into updates. It's very robust, stable and fast. Lots of APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Would like tags to be first class citizens and considered content in the system.

Somehow have relationships be bi-directional Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
CC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"1 year out"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The headless cms is a nice feature, API integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

there are some bugs in the application. It can be less than user friendly for non-technical based users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JK
Engineering Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Engineering Lead"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

I like that dotcms contains traditional and headless CMS options and paradigms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I often find there is a lack of quality documentation available for newer versions of dotcms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leanna F.
LF
Marketing Assistant for Residence Life
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"First it was confusing. Now I love it "
What do you like best about dotCMS?

It is very easy to update the Res Life web page using this program. It's fast, easy to use, and convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The formatting tools are confusing, and I feel like there are a lot of useless ones that have easy access, but the more important ones are harder to get to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kelvin E.
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Kelvin Ekonomi
Last activity over 5 years ago

I didn't check last versions so it might be already there. When dotCMS will fully support all the entities (containers, templates, pages, etc) and content to be deployable through APIs? Is that in the roadmap and for when?

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Last activity almost 6 years ago

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