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dotCMS is a visual headless content management system (CMS) designed to assist compliance-led organizations in the creation, management, and publication of digital content across various sites, brands, and channels from a unified platform. This innovative solution combines the flexibility of a headless CMS with a user-friendly visual editing interface, making it suitable for both developers and content teams. The platform is particularly relevant for organizations that prioritize governance and compliance, such as those in financial services, healthcare, government, telecom, and manufacturing. It is ideal for use cases that involve managing multi-site brand and regional websites, intranets, customer portals, product and marketing sites, and localized content. By providing a centralized system, dotCMS allows users to maintain control over their content while ensuring that it meets regulatory requirements. Key features of dotCMS include its API-first design, which supports GraphQL, REST, and Page API, enabling developers to integrate with various front-end technologies like React, Next.js, and Angular. This flexibility allows for seamless integration with other systems, such as commerce, digital asset management (DAM), and product information management (PIM). Content editors benefit from a visual interface that includes drag-and-drop functionality and live preview capabilities, streamlining the content creation process. Governance and compliance are at the forefront of dotCMS's offerings, with built-in workflows, approval processes, audit trails, granular permissions, and version history. This ensures that organizations can maintain oversight of their content operations, with configurable roles and multi-step approval processes that enhance accountability. Furthermore, dotCMS is aligned with enterprise security and compliance standards, such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, providing peace of mind for organizations handling sensitive information. Organizations like BNP Paribas, Telus, and various regional health systems utilize dotCMS to consolidate their content platforms, standardize governance practices, and reduce operational overhead. The platform is tailored for teams that require both content flexibility and stringent control over publishing processes, making it a robust solution for managing digital content in a compliant manner.

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Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish

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Collect, organize, and act on data and analytics to deliver a relevant customer experience

Hybrid features and an SPA editor (Edit Mode Anywhere) for managing an omnichannel experience

Arrange and manage content in-context across for all channels.

Drag-and-drop to design custom layouts and templates that can be used across channels and devices.

Build rich content structures that can be used across sites and channels.

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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Jose Luis P.

CEO Lead Software Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/11/2020

"create cms page"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

I like every module of cms in my company used it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The method for authority the publish the page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/20/2020

"Empower content creators within the CMS"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

DotCMS allows us to divorce technology from design. Content creators and designers can work frictionlessly on our system without needing to know middleware or backend programming. We've enjoyed using dotCMS for more than 8 years. In that time we've build several websites and hundreds of branded pages for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The templating (Apache Velocity) is not widely used and requires some specific learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stefan M.

Website Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/15/2020

"Fast & Good colaboration with the teams and easy learning of dotCMS"

5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The interface and the possibility of integration with all most everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fast content editing / administration of source of components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/25/2020

"As an open source tool, not bad"

2/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

I used an older version of dotCMS when I was a college student working in our communication office. I’d say I had average tech literacy and didn’t need extensive training, and it was easy enough to use. I don’t feel like I could get a website up and running myself with it. It looks like they’ve updated some of their interfaces though so that may not be the case anymore. Overall, pretty good product but not my first thought for website builder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Challenge to see myself building whole website rather just being contributor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/11/2020

"Great for content management but needs improvement on dynamic functionality."

3/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

I like the content creation process and the ability to easily place items in a page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Lack of support for dynamic functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kent B.

Client Development Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2019

"Great service, easy to use tool and great response for help"

5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The tool is extremely easy to use for non tech people as well as tech people. Support service for any issues are OUTSTANDING. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I can think of nothing I dislike. The tool and the people that support it are top notch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/22/2020

"dotCMS is a user friendly and open source software. It has many new features"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Time machine, work flow and publishing features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

We are not able to track some logs like connection failed. Need to improve to track all kind of logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2019

"Awesome!"

5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS is super easy to use and very functional for what my organization needs. Navigating dotCMS is very user friendly as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

There are rarely any glitches, but they always seem to be fixed in a very timely manner. I don't have many dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robin P.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/3/2019

"dotCMS made management of content and information very simple"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Being a Java shop we needed something that all of the developers could easily understand. Content maintainers don't have the technical understanding that the developers do, so a good visual editing environment was needed for them, dotCMS provided that too. dotCMS fitted in with our environment perfectly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

We have a niggly bug that crops up now and again. dotCMS support have been unable to assist in resolving it for us. Pages appear missing from the admin screen, they still exist but just aren't displayed. As a workaround we have to re-index dotCMS. Sometimes it works first time, other times random other pages appear and disappear, and then another re-index is required. It is just a minor irritation and doesn't affect the functionality of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

The documention for dotCMS is fantastic and helps in installing and setting up the CMS immensely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed an intranet solution that would need very little training for content maintainers to be productive. The visual editor is so intuitive and easy to use. The reliance on support required from IT has dropped significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Benjamin M.

Sr Front End Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/1/2019

"Flexibility and cache power"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS allows you to use it in the way you want. You can go from purely headless with APIs to simply hosting all your site(s) in the platform. It provide you with the ability to organize the content the way it makes more sense for each different project/site. On the top of it, the Cache system is impressive. You could have your DB in maintenance, if your content is cached, it'll be served like if nothing was wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Sometimes flexibility comes with drawbacks. The limitation of the java based system is that sometimes you will need to do custom things at the core level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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

How is dotCMS priced?

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