# OpenCms Reviews **Vendor:** OpenCms **Category:** [Web Content Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management) **Average Rating:** 3.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 19 ## About OpenCms OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently. ## OpenCms Reviews ### 1. OpenCms is giving the best solution for the developers to achieve the development requirements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad H. | Team Lead CMS ( WordPress & Shopify ), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** The Fields are a very well-defined and structured design. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** My dislike is as it's on java so the integrations with others are a bit difficult. **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** If you love to work on java then OpenCms is the best option for you **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** As it is a complete browser-based CMS we are created web solutions using it. ### 2. Worth checking out **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marina K. | Marketing Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** - Friendly interface - Great feature set - Easy to deploy and setup **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** This software doesn't have any significant downsides. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very good and absolutely free Java content management system for easy and fast site creation. ### 3. OpenCMS is a very handy tool to manage webpages **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Easy to update/creat new webpages. It's easy to create SEO friendly pages on it. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** The history of the users who modify particular webpages is not always updated. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can easily maintain our webpages in CMS now. ### 4. OpenCms absolutely recomendable CMS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Ignacio R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Easy and fast to learn. Allows to develop websites really fastly. The use of Content Definitions was very useful. Many interesting features, easy to understand and reuse. Summing up: I really recommend the product. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** I had to extend the BackOffice in order to manage our contents and to add new functionalities to the website, and at that time, I needed help from forums and community in order to learn how to do some advanced details. After solving everything the result was great, and we used this knowledge in further projects. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create websites with many posibilities simplified; multilanguage, multisite, reuse of styles, easy to organize contents, structure, and many other aspects. ### 5. There are simply no use cases in 2020 where OpenCms is the right tool **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Not much really, although i haven't been working with OpenCms for some time now. In the past, the best feature, although it wasn't really appealing for me personally, was OpenCms being Java-based, which was a driving factor in adopting it in a non-skilled team of Java developers who wouldn't have been able to learn a new language. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** - The fact that there are several better, more lightweight options - A generally high barrier to entrance to become productive working with OpenCms - Poor support for development tools **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** It's a legit choice only if sticking to Java is a binding constraint. Otherwise, there are several different solutions based on different technologies that solve the same problem better. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't been using OpenCms for a long time now. In the past, it was used to build an intranet for a large company and the only benefit was that it was Java-based and it didn't require lazy members of the development team to learn a new language ### 6. Not worth the time and effort to work with outdated technology. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fahad A. | Consultant | Front End Developer - React, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** not much to like. Very restrictive in the way to create custom content type and a pain to deploy to local servers or cloud **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** low productivity, restrictive in templates, enterprise feel of the software with no real productivity or security gains. **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** Contentful, Strapi for self hosted version. CraftCMS, ButterCMS. even WordPress Multi-site will be more beneficial. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** we were hosting our company intranet at that time. ### 7. Good platform for cms websites contents like news, articles etc **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lustre J. | Software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** The ability to create a one time template and then spawning multiple websites using the template 1. Open source 2. Based on Java 3. Content Authoring 4. Permission Management 5. Template Creation 6. Version Control You can invest once to make the website template and you will needed few minutes to made to change the website content multiple times. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** The version that we used does not support the HTML5, CSS3, so we have used old style CSS and basic HTML functions. As per the documentation the latest version of OpenCms supports HTML5 and CSS3 and all that. Few improvement i would like to see in OpenCms: 1. The text editor can be better 2. The code editor can be better 3. Approval process is not there 4. Document management is also missing **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** If you want to create a one instance website, then OpenCMS may not be right for your requirement. If you have a requirement to create a website template or a page template or a product page template then OpenCMS is the right platform. Example: News - A news article can be render in a same page but the content will be different, like the article, the article image, the hyperlinks in the article. Product page - An e-commerce website will display the product in a product page, so it will be the same page for all the products **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** The project that we worked on requires different content at regular intervals or on different occasions. Using OpenCMS platform, we created a website template where we are able to configure the content of the websites, look and feel of the websites. Then websites applications were created for each occasion and then content and configurations were provided the values to each of these website app. and we publish the app at the particular time ### 8. Open CMS daily use for Pubblic Administration online communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Policy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Easy and intuitive use, many personalization, wide community **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** it fitted all of our goals in terms of usability and communication goals **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** As a final user, we bought a customized release from a web agency, which played a key role in succesfull use of the platform **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** as a pubblic entity as big as 800 employees, we built a coordinated system made of more than 20 little website, managed a widespread editorial board thank to the opencms tools and their ease of use and ease of teach. ### 9. HCM consultant **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasad J. | Workday HCM Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Open cms is a secure and likely to be very powerful **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** It's gui is boring not very likey. System is difficult to understand **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** Highly recommended **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Server start and stop and development of recruiting website ### 10. Older Technology that is still in use. **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Billy R. | Web Developer and Email Marketing Specialist / Owner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** It was usable and operated securely. Also, I was able to figure it out enough quickly for a project. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** It had a lot of bugs and was set up differently than modern web tools. It required a lot of troubleshooting and had little community support in 2019 when I last worked on it. **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** If you have the time and ability to switch to something else I would highly recommend doing so. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to change the branding, content, and organization of pages for our clients to use. ### 11. Well designed CMS system but not well maintained **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asif K. | Associate Software Solution Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Very well and solid logical separation of content and schema. Enterprise features like search and multisite provided in core. Bootstrap responsive templates and elements. Dependable. CMS system. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** User interface is not competable with other popular CMS systems. Lack of plugins contribution by open source communities. Most of plugins outdated. Lake of in depth documentation and community. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing multisite deployment and integration with multiple enterprise systems. Much easier to understand and start working with in comparison to drupal. ### 12. Open CMS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** The fluidity and ease of use of the software **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** The edit functionality that required multiple navigations **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content management. It made my life easier by converting all the text into readymade HTML codes ### 13. Good experience with OpenCms **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin K. | IT Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** On the fly deployments, easy to take export of modules **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** Upgrade of OpenCms from older version to new. **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** Its great for multiple page application, also good for quick deployments (on the fly) , User friendly, Good security, easy to switch the versions of code **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick deployments ### 14. Open cms **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Souma M. | Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Open cms is content management tool which gives excellent integration with different language portfolios **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** Sometimes it becomes really slow in local system **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** Na **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuring content to avoid multiple restraint of production servers ### 15. Experience from the past **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Setting up OpenCMS was quite simple. Most of the time it went smoothly, without any bigger issues. **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** Deploying custom packages into OpenCMS was really annoying. We had to do that manually or writing our own plugins for deployment. Maybe something changed in newer versions, but a few years ago it was the biggest problem. Also, the lack of documentation for some features. **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** OpenCMS will enable you or your clients to get into the content management driver seat. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of clients don't have the skills to manage their websites, so they were unable to make even small content changes. OpenCms is enabling clients to get into the driver seat when we talk about content management. ### 16. OpenCMS review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** The builtin hierarchy of based on content type **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** OpenCMS is slower than other commercial CMS **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not many problems ### 17. Not the best CMS out there, but it can be enough for some people **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** They try to make the interface simple, it is indeed very clean, there are just 6 or 7 menu items for you to deal with Inline editing is very nice and efficient The setup tutorial is very helpful **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** Options and customization is very lacking Not much community support, templates, customization Limited feature set **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** I'd suggest another full-featured alternative that also has a simple interface. I never had complaints with Joomla on that front. **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is supposed to be a complete CMS, but it's not exactly my cup of tea ### 18. Open CMS review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron G. | Prog., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Ability to present web content both dynamically and statically Ability to combine the two modes on the same website and serve different pages dynamically or statically **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** No support for multi-environment configurations Not so easy to scale Not the perfect development environment **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** Consider this if you run a web site with hundreds or thousands of web pages **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business CMS ### 19. Open source, not exceptional, may be it does the job **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenCms?** Open source you can get all the code you want Growing community of interested coders **What do you dislike about OpenCms?** Counter-intuitive interface, or at least not the most attractive one Not alot of preloaded themes **Recommendations to others considering OpenCms:** You need a solid coding background **What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic CMS needs - [View OpenCms pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/opencms/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+13%3A15%3A46+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9eb2ca35-9ab7-428c-9aeb-24e668696cd6&secure%5Btoken%5D=826dd26c7f2919d5050c9ca6fa8f077b8348ce6106e93f2a575977ac08e09bdc&format=llm_user) ## OpenCms Features **Content** - Content Authoring - Rich Text Editor - Versioning - Plug-ins/Widgets/Apps - Approval Process - Content Scheduling - Asset Management - Internal Search - Content Repository **Design** - Breadth of Pre-Built Templates - Mobile - Branding/Themes - Customization **Platform** - User Community - SEO - Flexible Navigation Structures - User, Role, and Access Management - Enterprise Scalability - Internationalization - Dashboards and Reports - API / Integrations **Agentic AI - Web Content Management** - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction ## Top OpenCms Alternatives - [Drupal](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (405 reviews) - [Sitecore Digital Experience Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/sitecore-digital-experience-platform/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (526 reviews) - [WordPress.org](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (9,346 reviews)