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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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Noor L.
NL
Senior DevOps Services Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"CMS is internet friendly and is available anywhere on web"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

DotCMS is a cutting-edge digital content management company that assists medium and large businesses in creating, maintaining, and launching content-enabled innovations such as websites, independent forums, mobile applications, and many more. CMS is internet friendly and is available anywhere on web, assisting in the development of a multi-channel mobile strategy and facilitating information sharing through various computers and systems. DotCMS, as an online interface system, aids in the development of varied user experiences through personalized content, customization, people, workflows, and activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Recruiting them is a simple process for everyday content owners, but as time progresses, they are eager to integrate their own exclusive content material more naturally. The lack of a safe, secure working partnership has perhaps been the most difficult obstacle over the years. Accelerated team growth and development based on technologies that we're already using to solve market challenges for traditional consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Practice
UM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Little but Great"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

When the problem has been assigned it gets completed asap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

On occasion, response time can be lengthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Melissa j.
MJ
Software Engineering Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"dotCMS is the most advanced hybrid content management system (CMS)"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

This program is a good ready-to-use solution for all organizations and fairly easy to use. It also has many built-in features and custom content types and flexibility. More, This tool can also meet our needs well. Furthermore, its maintenance staff can be up and running within minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

This platform is complicated and using images is troublesome. In addition to its extensive documentation, the software still has some old features that need to be improved. The platform also has some restrictions on the type of data in the content structure. The price of dotCMS also makes its technical management more difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryan S.
RS
Business Development Lead
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Excellent Content Managment System"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

The number one thing that I like about dotCMS is its unopinionated approach to content management and page layout. dotCMS is up to the task of storing all kinds of content in infinitely customizable content types, and then displaying that content in a wide array of widgets. The ability to manage multiple websites, and share content between those sites natively is incredible. We also appreciate the ever growing options with dotCMS's API, and the ability to interact with that API now without writing Java plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

There are occasions where specific bugs within the system take longer than we'd like to resolve and get added to the core. With an enterprise license, dotCMS's support team is generally fast to provide a patch for specific instances, but we'd like to see core bugs get fixed faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Framework software for multi-channel sites"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

Ease of use in the back-end content management interface, allowing for easy relationships and content searching and editing. Overall publish concepts are excellent and easy to get content between environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Some challenges regarding "framework software" concepts, where customization is required to make full use of the POTENTIAL of this software. Customization means complication though and makes supporting the system more challenging. The software is AMAZINGLY customizable (that is a good!), though that creates the 'too' customizable scenario. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment
AE
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Development with dotCMS has been largely seamless, but like any software has its flaws"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

We use dotCMS as an intermediary between our internal systems and our outward facing website. It's not a completely headless build, but more of a hybrid. We appreciate the fluidity of the product in being a hybrid model.

The API that the team at dotCMS is great. As a hybrid model, we're able to write and receive data to and from dotCMS with little effort.

The support we receive has also been a highlight of using this product. The team at dotCMS is quick and very knowledgeable of the product they're developing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The backend can be unintuitive and unresponsive at times and the core software is missing some support for what we would consider standard user features. The documentation is outdated or incomplete in some respects. This wouldn't be a huge issue, but there also isn't a whole lot of organic support via other users building and sharing their experiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jim C.
JC
Executive Director of Digital Marketing and Communications
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best kept secret in enterprise class CMS systems"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS is continuously improving to provide its customers with a best-in-class website design and development experience. It is extremely convenient to take advantage of their cloud offering so all you have to concentrate on is your actual website - they do the maintenance, hosting, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Occasionally response times to reported issues are slower than I like. In reality, they are probably fine, but we live in an instantaneous gratification world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"content author - site manager review"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

Bulk uploading - is a pretty neat feature that helped us launch bigger pieces of content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

our design system and having to build widgets from scratch. There are a lot more intuitive features in a WordPress or square space site manager that are not enabled. Would love to have focal point focusing on the end-user.

We struggled big-time with issues during the main content creation - with our widgets and pieces of content disappearing when we launched. That was super frustrating.

We have also had issues with images not loading - and have had to re-load images 4+ times to get them to show up on the homepage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patrick M.
PM
Operations Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The Perfect Content Management Tool"
What do you like best about dotCMS?

I like dotCMS is very affordable and comes with best features as an enterprise content manager

The tool is very secure and makes content collaboration a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

No single dislike that I can think about because dotCMS has always worked as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
EH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"There have been up and downs with backend help but the basic user experience is good."
What do you like best about dotCMS?

What I like best is that typical users experience something similar to MS Word. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

What I dislike is that when we have backend issues that it is sometimes challenging to get quality service early on in the process. Sometimes we have to go up the management chain to get help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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