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dotCMS is a visual, headless CMS built for compliance-led enterprises that need to manage and scale digital content across brands, regions, and channels. From streamlining governance to enabling visual editing at scale, dotCMS powers global organizations like Telus and BNP Paribas to consolidate platforms, reduce overhead, and launch faster. Whether you're managing 10 or 1,000+ sites, dotCMS brings flexibility, security, and efficiency to enterprise content operations.

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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.

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.

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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friedrich k.

Software Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/25/2022

"Framework programming for multi-channel sites"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Usability in the back-end content management interface, considering simple connections and content looking and altering. Generally, distributing ideas is great and simple to get content between conditions. I like how adaptable it is and the way that it permits me to make custom substance types. That's what I feel, given sufficient preparation, a completely self-serve site is conceivable, while as yet taking into consideration custom layouts and designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

A few difficulties in regards to "system programming" ideas, where customization is expected to take advantage of the POTENTIAL of this product. Customization implies difficulty however and makes supporting the framework testing. The product is AMAZINGLY adjustable (that is great!), however which makes the 'too' adaptable situation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

Ensure you have a strong arrangement concerning "out of the case" versus framework versus customization. Bound to suggest dotCMS for a site beginning starting from the earliest stage instead of a laid-out site and encounters that need to continue. Assemble given the dotCMS capacities and afterward tweak on top of that for explicit requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Serving a multi-channel gathering of clients and entrepreneurs, serving clients that need extremely designated conveyance of content. Capacity to deal with a wide scope of content sorts and associations with inward frameworks to stay up with the latest and conveyed to clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/1/2019

"Stable but with a learning curve"

3.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Easy to get the devop overview, great with highly customizable templates, velocity is easy yet powerful. Great API. Impressive knowledge in the user based forum aswell as the dotcms support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Challenging to grasp the concept of a content driven, not page driven, cms. Would be awesome if one could limit user access to content based on languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/8/2022

"An average tool for simple homepages"

2.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS/our website supplier is very responsive when we have issues. Both are very transparent when it comes to challenging the current functionalities and adding new ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

dotCMS has a tendency to make easy things complicated and has some issues with bugs. As we have high demands in regards to styling/formatting, using dotCMS is sometimes challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sébastien C.

Front End Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/12/2021

"dotCMS is open a tool made for everyone"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

At first, the system is overwhelming for someone that has never worked with a CMS before. The System may not fit all of our needs, but it still allows us to build our features on top of it, which is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

We are a business developing landing pages for advertisement. I feel as though dotCMS has a Designer Template for no-code implementation, it doesn't quite work with multiple sites sharing the code. We have to duplicate a site for a template to work in another host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

Whether you have a blog, a shopping website, or multiple sites, dotCMS will provide you with everything you need to manage your content the way you want. You have full power. I'm not joking. I would recommend that you watch their webinars to have a good introduction as to what is it you can do with their application, and most importantly, that you test it our yourself. They have a demo website to log in to the back-end and see how they did it. I learned a ton of new tricks just by looking around at how things are set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to control our content and our static landing pages all in the same place is very convenient. That is the sole purpose of a CMS, after all. I cannot compare it with other CMS since it is my first experience with one. I think dotCMS is suitable for developers, which is excellent, but I also know that content integrators have a more accessible experience when compared to having no CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/5/2022

"Dotcms onpremise installation"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

headless cms with drag and drop and ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

had some difficulty understanding doc about saml integration other than that nothing at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/27/2020

"Evolving CMS from a Committed Vendor"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The dotCMS team is committed to supporting their customers to scale the solution to their needs. dotCMS allows a lot of functionality and has potential for integration with other systems. The training resources are excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The Admin Panel could use some refreshing as it is a bit difficult to work with to set permissions and manage pages compared to other solutions. For this reason, having a qualified web developer is suggested. Major version updates can be significant and should be reviewed carefully to be sure consistency post upgrade. That being said, the upgrade process is relatively smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

Have a short term and long term strategy so that you can define what you want to achieve. This could look like a phased approach where you set clear expectations for going live and then a future plan for rolling out additional features or functionality. You'll find that dotCMS continues to innovate and have on premise workshops and online sessions quite often. They make their training videos available that help out quite a bit, especially when you get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed a mobile responsive web site that could meet a variety of needs that an educational institution would require in 2020 and beyond. There are functions such as defining how to utilize a headless strategy for managing systems with dotCMS as the core. Also useful is how to handle authentication with with Active Directory which is helpful for enterprises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/25/2020

"dotCMS continues to be the best choice for Calvin University"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

We have enjoyed the way dotCMS still treats a site as a series of folders with subfolders and pages. It's been the easiest way for our editors to transition. Conversely, it's also been a gentle introduction for our users to the concepts of structured content. It's not at all difficult to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

We have had a series of difficulties with the stability of the software. The cloud has been good for us, but the occasional software crash has been frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

I would recommend that people take into consideration the level of personal support that dotCMS provides. My issues are addressed in an extremely timely and professional manner. This has been the greatest asset that dotCMS provides to Calvin University. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are sharing content across our site without re-creating it. For instance, a piece of news created by our Marketing department can be shared on the Biology department's website if they wish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/17/2022

"Powerful platform"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The flexibility of the platform. UI focussed on Marketing users, not IT admins. Strong backend architecture and highly scalable. Compared to other platforms, this is relatively cost-effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Documentation is not that great, and finding talent in the market is not easy. dotCMS support team is accommodating, but I wish dotCMS has professional services to help implementations directly. Documentation certainly needs improvement, and the company should invest in raising brand awareness and attracting more developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from J. Todd Bennett of dotCMS

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Good news! We are actively working on improving everything you mentioned. We recently expanded our documentation team and documentation is getting a complete revamp and full-time love. We are expanding into professional services and our global partner network is rapidly expanding. Our marketing team is growing and we're making a big push in the coming months to expand brand awareness and nurturing our developer community. Cheers!

Verified User in Building Materials

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/26/2021

"DotCMS met every need we had"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

DotCMS is very flexible and provides a solution for all our needs. Our in-house designers make it easy to add/edit content within the page containers and widgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

With it's complexity comes a learning curve, especially if you're not a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/26/2021

"If you love bugs, you'll love dotcms"

0/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Nothing... The history feature I guess is somewhat useful to see where content has been updated but that's about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Publishing is so temperamental. Everything breaks down the minute you want to publish something. I've never worked with a CMS that is this difficult to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.