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.

* Separation of content and design: this means we can say "yes" to almost any import/export requirements, including mobile and syndication

* Flexibility of the content model

* Extensibility at every level: editorial workflows, reverse proxies (Varnish), e-commerce, audit logging

* Multi-language features in its core

* Backed by a company but still open source

* A focus on best practices

* Enterprise search with Solr

* Community of developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Steep learning curve

* Slow mainstream adoption in the US and Canada

* Some missing documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been working with eZ Publish for almost 10 years since 2005 beginning with eZ Publish 3.6.1.

In Europe this product is well known and use by a lot of company.

I really like this CMS not only because I know it very well technically but because it’s clearly more than just a CMS.

eZ Publish is a platform, it’s a CMF, a CMS and a CXM

I don't want to list all the good features provided by eZ Publish out of the box (content structure, flexibility, multilingualism, multi channels and so on) you should try! There are a lot and moreover it's very simple to extend the system yourself. (or add professional extension)

For me the most important thing I noticed over the years about eZ Publish and eZ Systems is their professionalism.

The backward compatibility has been maintained at least since 3.6.x. (yes! For almost over 10 years you can preserve your content in the database!)

That’s for me one of the most important thing I like in eZ. That’s what customers like and need!

eZ Publish is a platform adapted for professional projects. And professionals build non short-lived projects, they want to get something stable, scalable and able to evolve.

The second thing I like is the quality of the product under the hood. Everything is unit tested, it’s really clean, the source code respects a lot of web standards and that’s managed by teams of engineers completely committed to deliver a really good product.

It's a OpenSource project but eZ Teams valid, fix, improve community contributions and they assure the quality of the product.

Last point, because eZ Publish 3.x has suffered about some bad reputation : You can build high performance website with eZ Publish.

I have built with our team some very highly available websites on eZ Publish. Websites able to handle the traffic generated by (for example) the FIFA World Cup on a famous nationwide (France) newspaper website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the Administration Interface. The first thing we do when we start a project: we change the CSS, add some icons to turn the Administration Interface more “user-friendly” for customers and contributors.

But I know eZ Systems are working on a new User Interface really interesting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My review is based on working with the 3.X version of eZ; the recommendation score is based on not having used the 4.X or 5.X versions that have been released in the years since I actively used the product. I can't say how well it currently measures up to the competition, but I would recommend at least giving it a try.

At the time, eZ was the only CMS system that supported localization "out of the box". That was a huge win for supporting a company based in Germany but with customers in Europe, the US, and Japan. It allowed us to quickly build a site to meet the needs of marketing and sales across a variety of languages.

The template system was robust allowing for deep customization of how content was presented across various areas of the site. Its extension system allowed us to integrate our existing license portal system with it and build a sales tool platform on top of it.

Was a solid enough CMS system, that I began using it for my personal web site as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system / UI for managing templates was not intuitive and required manually bookmarking template files once you found them. Otherwise, you would have to spend time hunting for it again a few months later when you finally needed to access it again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The CMS is very flexible, the project is open so it is easy to help contribute to fix bugs and add features, eZ does a good job of making substantial updates to the system without leaving old features behind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interface for selecting content and custom tags in content blocks, no embeddable custom form designer, coupling with YUI for new backoffice component Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The principals points of eZ Publish are the possibilities of customization : creating objects, access to .ini files, global parameters, site parameters. All of those parameters can be set in the backoffice.

Those facilities gives a maximum of flexibility, and the ability to create various sites or application with no much specific code.

The connection with Varnish works fine and allows the possibility to create extensibleend efficient platforms for high capacity sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eZ Publish is a PHP platform : for specific code (unit testing, evolutivity of code) and security, i consider java is more efficient.

But eZ Publish, with its customization interface and clustering facilities compensate this point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.