--- title: Cascade CMS Reviews meta\_title: 'Cascade CMS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 23 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Cascade CMS works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 23 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Cascade CMS Reviews & Product Details Cascade CMS (formerly Cascade Server) by Hannon Hill is an award-winning content management system that takes enterprise web strategy to the next level. It has built-in tools to eliminate stale content, increase digital outreach, and promote end-user adoption and accountability. Cascade CMS is designed for decentralized web teams in most major industries, including higher education, government, healthcare, and technology. 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Build profiles and engage with audiences through targeted content delivery. * * * Seller [Hannon Hill](https://www.g2.com/sellers/hannon-hill) Discussions [Cascade CMS Community](https://www.g2.com/products/cascade-cms/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Chris Rapozo Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Drupal](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Drupal") Drupal 3.9/5(425) ](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews) [ ![WordPress.org](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "WordPress.org") WordPress.org 4.4/5(9,544) ](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews) [ ![Progress Sitefinity](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Progress Sitefinity") Progress Sitefinity 4/5(546) ](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-sitefinity/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/cascade-cms/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 23 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) CN Chris N. Director of Web Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/23/2025 "Best CMS I've ever used!" 5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? I've used Cascade CMS for 14 years and it keeps getting better. As the Director of Web & Social Media Services for a University, I absolutely love Cascade CMS. It is easy to use, powerful, and also easy to update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? I don't have any negative views on Cascade CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Uniform design and structure for our entire campus web presence was crucial. We maintain all content for our University within Cascade CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Thank You page ![Peter C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Peter C.") PC Peter C. Director of Web Development Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/6/2023 "Flexible & powerful CMS optimized for higher education" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? Very customizable and powerful once you learn and understand the underlying data structures. Comprehensive REST API that allows for interaction with the CMS using whatever method you typically would. They're always adding new features, and actively soliciting feedback about how to make it better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? Setting stuff up takes a lot of technical knowhow, which could be a problem for non-technical administrators. Because it's so flexible, it can sometimes be difficult to decide what direction is best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps manage the website and distribute our updating to various departments on campus who know their content best. Helps us have one central place where all our content is located, so there's never a question as to how pages get updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/6/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Bryan T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bryan T.") BT Bryan T. Senior Web Administrator Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/14/2021 "Great multi-tenant customizable CMS interface." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? Cascade is, very nearly, infinitely customizable. It uses either XML or Velocity to build the backend for creating and updating content. The outputs are extraordinarily flexible. We moved from an HTML front end to leveraging a design system in order to enhance the webteam's ability to build services that are easily branded to a particular school or department within the University. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? The one thing that can be challenging is the speed of Cascade. The more complicated you design your page, the longer it takes for cascade to load the page for display, and edit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS: We were lucky in that we had a webteam member who was already familiar with Cascade when we brought it in. I highly recommend that you purchase the consulting time to have Hannon Hill come in and help you to configure and set it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? We are resolving a number of problems. The biggest was content ownership, which cascade has a great setup for. The next was giving our maintainers more flexibility in the templates they can use. We were able to implement a "build your own" template that allows people to design, practically, any type of page they want. One of the benefits of using Cascade is the ability to utilize work flows. This allows for a technical review as well as a content review. Technical review would be examining things like page structure, layout and image sizes. Content review is exactly what it sounds like, an opportunity for another set of eyes to catch any issues with the content, or to improve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/17/2020 "Great ability to view projects in development before going live." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? You can preview how a project looks in development before pushing live. This means you can get other opinions along the way. I also like that it has version history so that you can revert back to a previous version easily and quickly. The file system set-up is well done. You are able to keep projects together by folders, with images, documents, pages all collected within the folder. This allows you to produce essentially small websites of category within your main website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? If templates are set at a main level, it's harder to add changes to a page without using a lot of CSS. It would be nice if conditions were added within modules to better tweak results. It's like a WordPress page builder without full functionality. If modules are built into the templates, moving them about on the page really isn't an option; though you can move info within each module. This means that the design needs to be thought out much more. Another dislike is that the view while writing may not actually be what it looks like. Any rss feeds, event feeds, etc. won't populate until it's published - dev or live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS: Decide how much flexibility you want with a CMS. I tend to like WordPress for its ease and overall design. Cascade is great for revisions and file structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? It's easy to have many people work on a site and manage what areas, down to the page, that they have access to at any point. You can also include subsites and restrict based on a hierarchy within the company or business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/20/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/23/2021 "Easy to navigate" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? I like how primary the interface is and the clear delineation of hierarchy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? The dashboard is overwhelming, and I find that the specific pages I use do not appear as recent, so I always have to drill down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? The library did not have access to the website, so when I was trained on Cascade CMS, I was able to make quick changes without relying on an external source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jesse K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jesse K.") JK Jesse K. Senior Manager, Digital Accessibility Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/17/2020 "Cascade CMS works well for Higher Education" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? Easy to use. Easy to involved other co-workers in managing their web content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? Wish there were more integrations and control over what abilities to give to more advanced users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Cascade CMS helps us get our message out to potential and existing students in a timely manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/9/2020 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/31/2018 "A powerful CMS that makes a web developer's job efficient" 5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? I like how Cascade centralizes content in XML and opens up transformation via XSLT or Velocity Script. I like the power offered via Velocity Script since there are Java standard methods and multiple built-in tools. I like also having capability of building tools in the CMS, including jQuery-based web service calls using the REST API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? I dislike how the system handles ampersands. It always demands they precede an entity and this causes errors in the system. I dislike the inefficient search capability, particularly when choosing an asset though this is reportedly being changed in a soon-to-be-released upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS: This will make centralization, maintenance, migrations and changes so much easier with your web presence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Centralization branding, code and web presence. There has been improved efficiency with maintenance, migrations and development. It is also more secure as assets can be locked down. This protects the template and more complex coding while allowing web publishers and content managers from various departments to better maintain the content on their departmental sites. This CMS also allows a centralized backup of our assets used on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/6/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite DB Dan B. Director of Web and Design Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/24/2020 "Platform agnostic, robust CMS for higher ed" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? The most helpful feature of Cascade CMS is its flexibility. You are not locked in to a particular UI or UX - it becomes what you make of it. The CMS editing interface is yours to describe and build, the data architecture is yours to manipulate. If you can imagine it, you can build it with Cascade, with whatever your preferred server- and client-side language(s) are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? The downside to Cascade is the amount of resources needed for a fast implementation. It is resource-hungry, and if your websites get too large, you will definitely notice some speed and efficiency hits to your self-hosted solution. As long as you are willing to invest in hardware upgrades in the long term, Cascade is a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS: Cascade CMS is a great choice for enterprise-level content management. You will need to use their implementation of Velocity templating language, and be familiar with XML and structured content markup. But once you get the hang of it it is a powerful solution and almost infinitely flexible. .NET and PHP are both well-suited for use within Cascade depending on preference. We even have some old ColdFusion running in there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? The problem we were solving was using a reliable, flexible, extensible, platform-agnostic CMS to power our higher ed web sites. While other universities have moved to a Wordpress model, we wanted something more robust without 3rd party dependencies. Cascade has a nice user interface for our casual users as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/26/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/12/2018 "Amazing CMS for Higher Educaion" 5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? I love the push based publishing of Cascade CMS. This allows our website to have virtually 24/7 365 operation since there is no database dependency for basic operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? There are no significant items I am dissatisfied with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Cascade CMS: This is a great product supported by a great organization in Hannon Hill that cares for and listens to its customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Cascade to manage our entire enterprise website with over 400+ publishers and 300+ sub-sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/26/2018 "Fully customizable, user friendly CMS" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Cascade CMS? Cascade CMS make no assumptions about your content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cascade CMS? Without previous experience, professional training and implementation assistance is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cascade CMS solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed a custom user interface for specialized content layout and publication workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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