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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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Victoria Burt

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dotCMS Media

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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Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/15/2021

"Great CMS system!"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

I like the flexibility that dotCMS provides. We use dotCMS both headless as well as the 'traditional' way. We had some trouble setting it up, because of our specific enterprise setup, but the customer service did a great job assisting us. We use dotCMS for several years now and we manage over 30 websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

It was really challenging for us to update and I think it's because we do not have an out-of-the-box setup and requires some manually configuration. But again we always got the right support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kelvin E.

Agile Delivery Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/12/2020

"Easy to create very flexible website and headless content"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

DotCMS made possible to build very flexible websites with reusable components and templates which enables our content managers and designers to compose pages with different dynamic components in no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Some of the DotCMS entinties cannot be deployed through the pipelines which makes impossible to have a continues delivery, however, the push publishing helps on this process. The support and RCA in case of incidents can be improved further as it is already improved in the past year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

It is a very flexible CMS and you might start with the comunity version to try it out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creating headless content for mobile/desktop apps and flexible websites where content managers and designers can compose and create pages themself. DotCMS facilitates the review and publishing of new versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen E.

Agile Development Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/15/2021

"dotCMS is a strong enterprise CMS. Not for everyone, helps to have an internal tech team."

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Its flexibility. We can custom develop nearly anything we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Difficulty and time spent on upgrades. Not a straight-forward process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nafi H.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/17/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Backend content management"

3.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Organization of content and search capability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Inconsistent user experience while viewing/managing content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/19/2020

"Awesome CMS platform"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

i love the flexibility it provides. we chose our desired Front End technology, and after the initial implementation it is very straightforward to use by no-code users. another plus is about the speed to deliver into production new pages. we managed to launch an entire video streaming platform based on dotcms in only 10 days. it is easy to integrate with other platforms due to API based features. on the other hand, features as push-publish, persona and widgets are really great to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

The learning curve is quite long. we depend quite much on the vendor to learn to use the product at its best. but the best part here is that they are very committed in supporting us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

it takes a bit of time to find the best set up (if you are doing it on-prem) but it's worth the effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

page editing by non-technical users. fast integration with other sources of data. fast delivery content pages on our site and easy way to modify afterwards, without depending on Developers for the slightest update Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/18/2021

"Great customer support"

3.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Jenn and team took a look at outdated support contracts and put together something that makes sense for the business need now. We were having a lot of issues with our instance/updates/customized code, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Updates....way too many instance updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Team training/technical competency of the team. That's not a dotcms issue, but an internal issue.

We now have a focused web manager that I'm hoping will help!

Is there anyone on the dotcms team that we can utilize on best practices, current web trends that we should be looking at? Kind of like a web agency? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.