dotCMS Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

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.

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.

dotCMS has been a great solution for my organization and enterprise clients. Besides its flexibility, it's also highly customizable and able to handle complex content. I am able to shape dotCMS into exactly what my client requires for content and websites. It's also relatively easy for non-techy people to learn and get comfortable with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you're not a developer who already knows the language, there's a long learning curve before you're able to code Velocity to do what you want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What we need first is a tool that let us create relational database collections without limit, with GraphQL to access our data. That's what we found and many more. There no limit with data collections , projects, entries and it's very powerfull regardless of its elasticsearch and caching capabilities. The onboarding was very easy, supported by great people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We first try the server version which is very difficult to install on premise. The cloud version is a charm compare to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

The CMS is able to Handle a massive amount of content quite responsively. Searching using the index provides for fast queries. The cloud hosted environment is very stable and support is usually very quick. The extensibility of the system is very impressive. The plugin framework allows for adjusting or adding new features quickly. The ability to add plugins live without a restart allows for very fast testing and speeding up development times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the documentation can be a little frustrating to understand. Especially when getting into the more technical aspects of the system, there is frustratingly sparse explanations for how certain functions work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how flexible it is and how it allows me to make custom content types. I feel that, given enough planning, a fully self serve website is possible, while still allowing for custom layouts and designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are weird errors that can't be easily explained. And often CSS changes need a complete cache flush which can be annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Product documentation was on point and easily searchable on their website. We ran across some issues with our deployment which they resolved quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although they support k8s deployments, it's rather in an infant stage. In time I think it will get better, maybe they'll have a helm chart. This is more of a heads up than a direct complaint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like every module of cms in my company used it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The method for authority the publish the page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DotCMS allows us to divorce technology from design. Content creators and designers can work frictionlessly on our system without needing to know middleware or backend programming. We've enjoyed using dotCMS for more than 8 years. In that time we've build several websites and hundreds of branded pages for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The templating (Apache Velocity) is not widely used and requires some specific learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface and the possibility of integration with all most everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really can say that i found nothing that should i dislike since working with dotCMS and it's team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used an older version of dotCMS when I was a college student working in our communication office. I’d say I had average tech literacy and didn’t need extensive training, and it was easy enough to use. I don’t feel like I could get a website up and running myself with it. It looks like they’ve updated some of their interfaces though so that may not be the case anymore. Overall, pretty good product but not my first thought for website builder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Challenge to see myself building whole website rather just being contributor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the content creation process and the ability to easily place items in a page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of support for dynamic functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Headless CMS approach

open source Java based

concept of osgi plugin

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

dotCMS was a great out-of-the-box solution for our organization. It is able to handle complex content and relationships and makes it relatively easy to build your website or app around your content and data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface and learning curve can be intimidating for first-time or casual users. However, it had improved significantly over the last few years with more improvements constantly coming down the line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.