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Torstein A.
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What do you like best about Enonic?

Enonic is versatile, robust and user-friendly. I love the hybrid approach, combining both headless and traditional editorial functionality. We use it for multiple sites at Gjensidige, and have successfully integrated it with our design system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

I would have liked an even bigger community, so please consider trying it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use it as a key part of our web platform for both internal and customer-facing digital services in four different countries. Works great on-prem and in the cloud, and both for developers, digital editors and content designers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Enonic Overview

What is Enonic?

Digital teams use the Enonic platform to structure content, compose pages, and deliver digital experiences with their preferred front-end frameworks. Visual editing and real-time preview give editors an intuitive mastery and control of their content, which can be accessed via the API and used as data. The platform also supports re-use and localization of content to support brands across markets. Enonic is optimized for agile development, and offers standard integrations with popular marketing tools and front-end frameworks. Developers can even build their own back-end services and APIs to cover custom use cases.

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Product Description

Enonic is a content platform enabling businesses to structure, manage and distribute content to their websites, applications, and digital experiences. The platform uses a headless architecture, meaning it decouples front-end presentation from the back-end content and data management. This allows developers to build custom interfaces and experiences using their preferred front-end technologies, while also allowing content creators to manage and publish content using a convenient and intuitive interface. Enonic also offers a range of features for managing and delivering content, including workflow tools, search functionality, and integrations with other systems.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Enonic provides a comprehensive platform to manage and distribute structured content with unparalleled flexibility and power through our GraphQL API. The headless architecture allows developers to work with any front-end framework, while the integrated search engine allows for lightning-fast queries with aggregations, scoring, and boosting.

At the same time, visual page editing, real-time preview, editorial workflow, and an organized content tree structure complete with projects and localization layers ensures maximal usability and familiarity for content editors.

The back-end can be fully customized using JavaScript for tailored authentication, server-side tasks with the scheduler, and extended admin console. Moreover, Enonic offers cloud hosting with an out-of-the-box CI/CD setup complete with multiple environments that enable effortless transition between testing and production.

As such, Enonic is the perfect solution for agile development teams seeking to quickly and efficiently organize, manage, and deliver content.


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Year Founded
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Recent Enonic Reviews

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Mia F.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"WordPress.com Alternative of this Era: Enonic"
Enonic allocates an extended range pf digital experience tools that makes it easy to create and design websites.
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5.0 out of 5
"Flexible and developer-friendly content experience platform"
My favourite part of Enonic XP is the flexibility the platform provides and the helpful community on discuss.enonic.com and their Slack community. ...
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2.5 out of 5
"Good for cms, badly used"
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Enonic Media

Enonic Demo - Content Studio Grid
The grid, or the Content Navigator, orders all your content items in a tree structure, which can reflect the organization of your site.
Enonic Demo - Page Editor
The visual page editor allows you to build landing pages with configurable components.
Enonic Demo - Search
Find what you're looking for instantly with the lightning-fast search functionality. You can also check multiple content items across searches and filter by content type.
Enonic Demo - Structured Content
Create any required content type for your digital project. Here is a blog post content type, with custom fields for image, author, intro text, and body text.
Enonic Demo - Image Handling
Edit images directly in the user interface, where you can crop, add a focal point, rotate, and flip. Other options include custom filters and aspect ratios.
Enonic Demo - Analytics Widget
Standard integrations with marketing tools like Google Analytics, Matomo Analytics, and Fathom Analytics let you see relevant data directly in the UI with widgets.
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MF
Project Manager, Historic Media Collection
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What do you like best about Enonic?

Enonic allocates an extended range pf digital experience tools that makes it easy to create and design websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

Domain registration at Enonic is a bit expensive compared to Namesilo, but I point it via nameservers and DNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It makes it straightforward to manage website contents.

Website design and development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bobby W.
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What do you like best about Enonic?

XP is very powerful and yet flexible. It is really fast, it scales. It's also a breeze to setup locally. That it is built and documented to be molded into your liking is something that helps us adopt it across a broad team of developers with different preferences. It's JavaScript core makes it just a matter of reading about the APIs to understand how things work. You can use the CMS for rendering, go hybrid (my preference), or all headless. The docs are solid and gets you up and running, the community is there to help. Enonic as a company feels more than willing to implement feature requests and bug fixes, its always been a very fast and pleasant communication with the core team. The core developers are active in the community, you get first-hand insights and advice. Frequent releases with each having a rather big impact for both editors and developers. A small but feature-full ecosystem, you'll find stuff on the market for most things you'll need. The Page Editor is nice, you edit parts of your page with drag-and-drop and editors love it. For developers the way you built apps feels solid, each file and folder has a meaning and you need to config next to nothing as long as you learn the structure. Enonic CLI is a great addition for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

As all big platforms there's an overwhelming amount to understand and know about the platform to use it best. Feels like people tend to start using it in an odd way, making them gain less from the full potential. Docs can sometimes be too brief in some areas, or contain small errors that are hard to detect for the untrained eye. Getting expert developer help for longer times on the platform is very difficult. The Html-editor feels outdated where even Wordpress has been a smooth editing experience for many years, Content Studio's editor have very limited features in comparison. The Nashorn engine will be removed soon, it's been a pain point that everyone works around anyway. Also some long-missing features: you still can't do custom input types, custom html styles/classes in the editor, control where uploaded media goes, image handling is sub-optimal, can't schedule publishing of modified content, co-edit content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We run multiple custom facing websites, also intranet. Usually a lot of React apps running in the middle using Enonic to stitch everything together. We run everything in Azure using Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emilie R.
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What do you like best about Enonic?

I was first introduced to Enonic XP7 when I was still attending Uni. The solution was easy to get into, as the stack uses languages and technology most are already familiar with.

Now, after having used XP for some years, I am still satisfied, and the product keeps on getting better. There's always something new and exciting getting released for their product, and I can't wait what the future of this product will be.

The staff at Enonic are easy to get in touch with, either on their forum or their Slack, and the community helps each other out with issues and problem solving.

I have briefly used similar CMS solutions, like Optimizely (formerly Episerver). They ship out a robust product, which is too grand from the start. XP on the other hand, takes less than a day to learn and begin developing in, without any unnecessary overhang. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

As with everything, XP is not perfect.

The company and product have existed for years, yet some areas it's not as polished as one would expect it to be. I do miss having more restrictions on parts - how many are allowed on a page, or in which area you're allowed to place some, but not others. Also, there's a lack of configurability for the WYSIWYG-editor. I have found areas where I'd love to add custom fonts or styling to text, yet not being able to add new, just alter the existing ones. One solution of course would be inserting macros, but that's not the perfect solution to possibly inexperienced editors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

XP's tasks have helped me out a lot in a project, where it's scheduled to run daily and retrieve data from an external source. After having done so, it generates content based off of the data, and doesn't overwrite existing, yet updating the changes flawlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pavel C.
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What do you like best about Enonic?

I like the flexibility of the Enonic. You can choose from several approaches how to use the system. We, for example, take advantage of the Headless CMS, where our client part is created in Angular. The definitions of the content structures are entirely in our hands and can describe both simple and very complex data.

I like the market which Enonic offers, where are many useful plugins and projects prepared for downloading. I also like the Guillotine query editor which is provided by Enonic and where you can tune your GraphQL queries.

One of the real benefits is the Enonic support, which is always very fast and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

We would appreciate setting the specific access rules to specific editors in Content Studio. Some people are responsible for a part of the content, but we cannot give them access only to the data they need to edit.

Sometimes the Enonic documentation is out of date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Enonic:

I have one recommendation: use Guillotine query editor for creating and tuning your GraphQL queries. The editor supports valuable features like previewing the GraphQL schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were creating a new Intranet system for our company, and we were looking for a modern opensource CMS with WYSIWYG editors. Enonic provided us with everything we required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Håvard Skjerstad A.
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Head of Marketing and Communications
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What do you like best about Enonic?

I like the UX which anyone with a tad of prior experience from blog systems and wordpress-like systems will reckognize. Important for an organization like ours that it is offered in Norwegian. That helps our editors a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

I would like for it to scale traffic peaks on the servers better. Also it could be better at differentiating user levels, restrictions and access. We have a multi layered organization and need to use a different system to manage user access and authentication. I would urge Enonic to find solutions to hide or disable read only content from the cms. I understand that this may be an option in some content project, but has not been installed/developed on our site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Enonic offers our organization a tool for a nationwide organization with a lot of non-professional users. This seems to flow well after som time online. Enonic is the CMS for our most important com-channel to our customers and the outside world in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bruno R.
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What do you like best about Enonic?

I've been using Enonic for close to a year now. From what I've experienced, I've seen a lot of capabilities. Everything that I needed to implement I have found a clean way to do, and when not natively, you can implement a Java extension to do what is required. It's an excellent and versatile development experience.

One really nice thing is that the support through Discuss forum and Slack works very well, and you talk directly to the skilled and friendly people who are developing the features.

The last thing that is worth mentioning is that the learning curve is not high. The idea of development is a bit unique, but once you understand it through the documentation, you can become productive with Enonic relatively fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

- The docummentation is well written, but IMHO I believe that there is space to improve it with more examples;

- The community is not huge since It's not a wide known technology yet;

- There isn't a lot of apps in the Enonic market; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In the last company that I worked on, the team was using Enonic as the primary platform for development, building complex web apps using server-side javascript (or typescript). There's also room to do many cool things using modern front-end frameworks such as Vue and React, for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Catrine H.
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What do you like best about Enonic?

It´s easy to get the hang of Enonic XP. As a content editor, you get a sense of endless possibilities. You can use templates or build pages by drag-and-drop. Together with a good developer, you can make almost anything. In addition, there are several useful apps on Enonic market.

We use Enonic XP for our relatively small web platform and look forward to scaling up in the future.

I like:

- Issues management

- Image handling

- Version comparison

Also, the team at Enonic is fast to respond, polite, and always very thorough. You get in contact with them and the rest of the community through Slack and the user forum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

- Some of the apps on Enonic market is quite simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have recently moved our web platform into Enonic XP.

Benefits:

- Building pages is fast

- Low-level content creators can use the site with ease

- Up-to-date technology (headless) gives us many possibilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Enonic?

Users can manage their own content for their website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

No standard way to implement certain things, little example code or explenation from libraries which are not standard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Custom webpage administered by non technical people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Enonic?

Enonic is easy to set up, administrate, and easy to learn for new content editors.

It has a lot of flexibility and is fast to update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

It is still not possible to schedule already published content for changes. It would be great to be able to hide certain functionality, especially for content editors with few and very specific tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Compared to other CMS platforms Enonic XP is faster to learn for content editors, and our developers also use a lot less time to develop on and update the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Glenruben E.
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What do you like best about Enonic?

Adding new functionality to a site is quick and easy. XP makes for a flexible content tool, and allows us to build solid websites with a high level of self-reliance in our editorial staff. It integrates well with existing ecosystems. Having close ties with the developers and a short feedback loop is very valuable to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Enonic?

Using modern javascript tooling is possible but sometimes clumsy. We have React components working, and we use Typescript, Webpack, Babel, etc, but there is some overhead to the build pipeline. Build times are very fast out of the box, but after adding all the necessary layers needed to get these features working, we see increased wait times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Enonic XP to import data and display new and updated content automatically. We use Content Studio to allow many users to edit and work with their content directly and in a faster way than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.