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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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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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Kent B.

Client Development Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2019

"Great service, easy to use tool and great response for help"

5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The tool is extremely easy to use for non tech people as well as tech people. Support service for any issues are OUTSTANDING. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

I can think of nothing I dislike. The tool and the people that support it are top notch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/22/2020

"dotCMS is a user friendly and open source software. It has many new features"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Time machine, work flow and publishing features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

We are not able to track some logs like connection failed. Need to improve to track all kind of logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2019

"Awesome!"

5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS is super easy to use and very functional for what my organization needs. Navigating dotCMS is very user friendly as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

There are rarely any glitches, but they always seem to be fixed in a very timely manner. I don't have many dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robin P.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/3/2019

"dotCMS made management of content and information very simple"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Being a Java shop we needed something that all of the developers could easily understand. Content maintainers don't have the technical understanding that the developers do, so a good visual editing environment was needed for them, dotCMS provided that too. dotCMS fitted in with our environment perfectly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

We have a niggly bug that crops up now and again. dotCMS support have been unable to assist in resolving it for us. Pages appear missing from the admin screen, they still exist but just aren't displayed. As a workaround we have to re-index dotCMS. Sometimes it works first time, other times random other pages appear and disappear, and then another re-index is required. It is just a minor irritation and doesn't affect the functionality of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

The documention for dotCMS is fantastic and helps in installing and setting up the CMS immensely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed an intranet solution that would need very little training for content maintainers to be productive. The visual editor is so intuitive and easy to use. The reliance on support required from IT has dropped significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Benjamin M.

Sr Front End Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/1/2019

"Flexibility and cache power"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

dotCMS allows you to use it in the way you want. You can go from purely headless with APIs to simply hosting all your site(s) in the platform. It provide you with the ability to organize the content the way it makes more sense for each different project/site. On the top of it, the Cache system is impressive. You could have your DB in maintenance, if your content is cached, it'll be served like if nothing was wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Sometimes flexibility comes with drawbacks. The limitation of the java based system is that sometimes you will need to do custom things at the core level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/21/2019

"Excellent except push publishing issues"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

Headless CMS approach

open source Java based

concept of osgi plugin

multi-site admin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

push publishing feature does not work seamlessly..

installation without enterprise licence connecting to ldap puts the database in inconsistent state. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/19/2019

"Makes development simple"

5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The performance made my to admire dotcms technology and the ease handling contents making the customization simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

More sophistication is I dislike.Cache isssues are still found make the technology less consistent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher F.

Web Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/18/2019

"dotCMS is a great Content Management Platform for your your web projects"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The flexibility in dotCMS allows us to engineer solutions that meets our business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

With great flexibility comes great complexity. dotCMS is not an out of the box solution, you have to engineer with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering dotCMS:

Be prepared for the engineering requirements for this software. If you plan to host your own instance, you will need someone versed in setting up java application servers and databases. If you plan on going with their cloud offering you will still need a programmer versed in enough Java to learn Velocity (the templating language behind the software). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Powers all of our main websites, marketing efforts, landing pages in Eloqua/Salesforce. Integrates with our custom Job Data Providers with the ability to import content from any system we've thrown at it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/20/2019

"dotCMS review"

2.5/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

It is fairly easy to learn basic functionality quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

Getting data out of dotCMS is complicated and needs a programmer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/22/2019

"Dotcms Review - Web Development"

4/5

What do you like best about dotCMS?

The build in functionality that dotcms offers in terms of the demo Project is one of the most helpful thing. Developing website using the demo as an example helps to ease the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dotCMS?

There is not as much documentation on dotcms in terms of issues and errors. ` Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.