Ibexa DXP (formerly eZ Platform Enterprise Edition) Reviews & Product Details

I think it’s a good content management tool, especially for large companies. It helps a lot with creating, structuring and publishing content. If you want a “brochure ware” site, then this platform can really help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Outputting content is not easy and if you want something special it does require special HTML skills or other templating language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ Platform Enterprise Edition is a great software for the webmaster. It is very easy to use solving all kinds of PHP and CMS problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though it has a demo version, I think it is very expensive to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to share multiple content across multiple 'universes' setup within the CMS. The flexibility for the setup of these universes and the massive upgrades that add a multiude of new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Too much development or customisation to a specific version means that upgrading becomes very problematic. Difficult to find programmers with enough experience in the platform to utilise it correctly, meaning specilist costs soon spirial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

makes life so much easier and fun! it has the best features when it comes to general use of some features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZPublish features and framework can sometimes be tough and it has made its learning curve steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Developing web and mobile apps based on 4 generations of eZ Systems CMS's has been a fantastic experience.

The very best thing about eZ Platform is the backend. Symfony, Twig and clean APIs on the top make it super flexible and extensible solution wether you want html, REST or just about any other output.

Even if the community these days is not most crowdy out there, the eZ Crew is easy reachable trough Slack. Help is never far away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Whereas the backend always has been the strong side, the front end hasn't. The contrast to e.g. Wordpress where the front end is good but the backend is crap is great. That said, the front end is improving all the time.

The same goes for documentation. Historically you needed to be quite an eZ Nerd to know where to find the good stuff. These days that is finally changing as the docs get better by the day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexibility, scalability, performance, security, easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintains. A perfect product if your want perform a great web project. Also, you can use the API to perform a mobile app. e Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing relevant ! Maybe lack of communication around upgrade needs for our customers but I think I've not find informations in right item on the website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that it's built on top of great technologies like Symfony2 and Twig. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Getting started (understanding) the system isn't the easiest to get going with, but once you do get going, you don't want to go back to other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solid enterprise features

Symfony2 integration

Lower licensing costs compared to competitors

Open Source license on most of the code base Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lots of bugs and annoyances due to integration with Symfony2, no clear documentation and way to develop apps/pages using this dual-kernel with a complementary relationship rather than complete features in Symfony2 rather than Legacy Kernel (the desired way)

Lack of latest tech trends and patterns use in the code base

Lack of good solid up-to-date documentation

Lack of development guidelines to streamline dev in a fast and reliable way, compared to competitor solutions (even open sources ones) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ Publish, or eZ Platform, is now built on top of Symfony. Symfony is a modern php web framework that has a large user base. By adopting Symfony as a backbone for eZ Publish, eZ has opened the door to make developing and extending eZ Publish easier than ever. Moreover, by adopting Symfony, eZ Publish by default has a much larger pool of developers who will be able to step into a development role on an eZ Publish project.

eZ Publish has also adopted a better release cycle and a better upgrade path. Keeping up to date is now a breeze with eZ Publish; the same claim cannot be made for other CMSs I have worked with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ still has a large legacy base that is still supported. Maintaining that legacy base can mean duplicating configuration and a slower development process for some projects. eZ is working on making this better, but it is still a pain point.

Arguably, another pain point is the eZ Publish administration interface. Due to eZ Publish's power, there is a lot to manage. This can be overwhelming for some users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing what I like the best on eZ is the way of display contents and the API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the documentation (even it's better than before :) ) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can achieve anything. Anything! The integration with Symfony was a stroke of genius. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lots of moving parts. It sometimes feel like building a spaceship and flying it at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration of Symfony2 was a great move Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the community repos are not getting enough love Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ offers a great content model which allows you to tailor the system to your needs. Unlike other CMS platforms eZ is both multi-lingual and ready for multi site projects without assuming web to be the only content channel. This is a clear advantage to many other solutions which require plugins. One of the best reasons for chosing eZ Publish 5x or eZ Platform is that it fully supports Symfony. Other platforms are using this, but not full stack.

One of the best things about rendering the content is that you are free to design your own views , meaning your content can be output in different ways and this can be done consistently. Reuse of content is easy and all data is stored independently of your presentation format, meaning it can be easily exported or offered by other solutions via APIs for instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The hybrid stack is a great idea, but has been tough to work by. One of the challanges has been that it has taken some time to get the necessary features supported. The idea of having a mixutre of architectures is not the best, although it does offer existing customers a clear path to transition to the new system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* flexible content structure

* multi-language support

* multi-site support

* easy to customize Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The CMS is powerful and has a lot of feature ready to use but it's also complex and it will take before you start liking it as a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many things that one can love eZ Publish for... My feeling is that the majority of the good things that we appreciate about the CMS today result from the fact that the software had been designed, coded and evolved the way it should have been done, in a very mature manner. Simple as that, yet so rare for so long and in so many open source projects. Stability, extensibility, robustness, security, flexibility, extensive use of best practices in terms of content management, content model as well as code organization and application architecture - all gracefully negotiated and combined together, at least since around legacy version 3.5.x which was the eZ Publish beginning for me about 10 years ago and now additionally amplified with Symfony2. It all makes eZ Publish a very solid, reliable code and project base. After all these years I am still enthusiastic to work with it.

To name few things I like about eZ Publish in particular:

- great, mostly very consistent PHP-level API and codebase (although I can’t deny awaiting the legacy code drop),

- it is great for prototyping and negotiating content and information architecture,

- with Symfony2 framework on board, it is even more robust,

- it is a Content Management Framework rather than just a CMS, there’s really little ground for confusion with most of popular open source products,

- it does help to shape and enforce high content culture within an organization and editorial team,

- it has great a community of enthusiast and experts,

- it is open source - you are able to discover all the awesomeness and adopt it to your own liking and needs and also contribute from time to time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The content model doesn’t seem to evolve too much anymore.

The general adoption of eZ Publish on our market doesn’t change at best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This CMS is a full-featured, all bells and whistles, all-you-need, and then some, kind of beast. Many advanced features that are clunky and hard to use on other CMSes (multiple languages, document versioning, .doc and .pdf autoi ndexing), are just a click away with this app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ is not that easy to develop. To start, it is a dual app/framework thing. It comes with a whole app already working, but there's a huge API to build whatever you can dream of, and everything is customizable. It needs some time to learn all the corners. And docs are sometimes on the basic side, addressed to the ninja-level developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many thing I like about eZ. First of all its open source which offers more innovation and efficiency when implementing web solutions on top of it. At the same time the end client has, optionally, enterprise level support to lower the risk. Furthermore, eZ has a great architecture with 2 important pillars: extensible content model for channel agnostic content management and separation of content and presentation. It has several API-s that offer easier integrations and customisation. It is based on Symfony2 PHP framework which offer almost unlimited ways of extending the core. It is known for its upgradeability (taking care that the product can be upgraded smoothly when needed) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The weakest point currently (Q1 2015) is the editor experience which is based on the old administration interface (the concept dates back from 2003 or so). The long awaited new editorial interface is in the works so we should have more appropriate experience for editors during 2015, finally.

Also, the learning curve is high, but it is a consequence of the fact that it not a simple CMS, it has many features and traits, and it is possible to do the same thing in many ways. So eZ might be better described as a Content Management Framework. Documentation (especially for beginners) is not very rich which contributes to the steep learning curve. This is changing recently as newer versions of eZ are based on Symfony2 which offers plenty of resources for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most Professional CMS we have been working with.

Don't be confused, wordpress is nice, simple and fast. But this is in a whole different level, once you learn ezpublish you have a CMS platform where you can create big and fast performing sites with a very pro API that you can extend and integrate.

Based on symfony 2.X makes ez publish a perfect choice for us as we already invested in learning symfony platform inner workings.

The contend edition is very simple, you either gives them access to the site admin section (which is more daunting for beginners or just the frontend editing toolbar )

Database design is exquisite, if you have a DBA around he will love it.

Mobile ready from the beginning and the API is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steep, steep learning curve. Don't download this project to make a website during the weekend.

Even some simple things take a long time to do. Don't even try to change a single parameter in the database like you will do in wordpress, here database design is so relational (maybe 3rd or 4rth degree of normalization) that you need a good understanding of the design before trying to do that.

Being symfony based (version 5 and up) made the system very robust but you need to really understand what you are doing, otherwise you will feel lost.

Community is lagging behind wordpress and other CMS.

*EDIT (24/2) - Ezpublish is not yet fully migrated to symfony so some components are not yet there and there is an ezpublish_legacy bridge, bear this in mind, try to go for the latest version and upgrade often while learning so you don't have to learn some legacy stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I prefer of Ez Publish is the Security and the Stability. I am working with EzPublish for more than 5 years, I never had security problems. Even without update the CMS for years you will be safe of hacking. I started to implement this tecnology in Chile. In the agency I am working all website was done with Joomla and Wordpress and the agency was suffering hacking everytime. Joomla and Wordpress need you to be always attentive of new versions. All websites was rewrited with ezpublish and nowadays we can focus 100% on developments improving the quality of our solucions. Of course, this is only THE best think I like with ez but i could talk about ez for hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that there is no automatic update of the CMS. All have to be done manually and this is really annoying. (at least with the ez comunity version). I also dislike the fact that it is not possible to extends an existing class (talking about "content class", not about PHP class) (Employe is a Person, Director is a Person, both should have comon field ... ) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been working with eZ Publish since v3. The case to use it is that it helps to create complex solutions definitely quickly. Quickly enough if you know how it works ;)

eZ Publish is not for simple homepages. It is more than just CMS. It is a rather powerful framework which gives developer possibilities to implement a lot of things such as new kinds of content, editor workflows, rest apis etc. Now, with Symfony2 as an underlying framework, eZ Publish is even more powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Current database model can result in a bad website performance. I hope eZ Systems is going to change it in eZ Publish 6.

Moreover, it is not that easy to learn eZ Publish. Developers who starts with eZ Publish have to change their minds to understand how to create their solutions with this CMF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most important feature of eZ Publish, and the one that made it such a great choice for us, is its flexibility. From highly customizable content modeling options to complete separation of content and presentation, all aspects of this CMS are thought through with adaptability in mind. Underlying PHP framework (Symfony) provides superb extensibility and can be utilized to develop custom made solutions for enterprise level clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Administration of content tends to be somewhat tedious, due to customizable content model that needed a generic administration interface. That being said, it is rather easy to develop a custom admin interface tailored to a specific use case. Additionally, the system had a somewhat steep learning curve, which should flattened with switch to a well documented Symfony framework that is used by recent versions of the CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like best that eZ Publish is very flexible. It allows editors to work and arrange content as they want and enables developers to implement even very complex solutions.

The content is stored in a way that in can be reused for different content channels.

Beneath the CMS function eZ Publish is a powerful platform for applications. A powerful search engine based on Solr allows to run complex search queries.

Starting with version 5.0 eZ Publish uses a modern and reliable framework (Symfony2). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not so easy for new developers to learn how to develop eZ Publish applications. The learning curve is quite high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The possibilities to integrate with other systems (even internally developed and readily available ones) is a great benefit. If you need complete control and customization this is it and the support is grate. I would definitely recommend getting a good contact at eZ Systems and make sure he or she understands your need - if you do this you will be taken well care of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The admin interface is quite complex and is in need of improvement due to the feel of an old interface. This should have been improved a long time ago and hopefully they are about to get to it! A complex system needs some internal education and should have someone who uses this system often - otherwise the vast amount of possibilities can be overwhelming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product like mentality. A lot of functionality out of the box and the built in features work together and I don't really need that many additional plugins/modules/etc. to accomplish a site.

The adoption of the Symfony 2 full stack makes development very structured and familiar to newcomers with an MVC framework background.

Reliability. Few surprises in running eZ Publish for years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning curve is quite steep and there is limited documentation and tutorials available.

The Symfony stack helps this, but there are still so many cases where it's easy for a newcomer to get confused (obsolete tutorial), new stack vs. legacy stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.