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OpenCms Reviews & Product Details

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.

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OpenCms

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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

26 months

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OpenCms Reviews (19)

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Muhammad H.

Team Lead CMS ( WordPress & Shopify )

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/5/2022

"OpenCms is giving the best solution for the developers to achieve the development requirements"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenCms?

The Fields are a very well-defined and structured design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenCms?

My dislike is as it's on java so the integrations with others are a bit difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marina K.

Marketing Advisor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/24/2021

"Worth checking out"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenCms?

- Friendly interface

- Great feature set

- Easy to deploy and setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenCms?

This software doesn't have any significant downsides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/2/2021

"OpenCMS is a very handy tool to manage webpages"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenCms?

Easy to update/creat new webpages. It's easy to create SEO friendly pages on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenCms?

The history of the users who modify particular webpages is not always updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose Ignacio R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/29/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"OpenCms absolutely recomendable CMS"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/17/2020

"There are simply no use cases in 2020 where OpenCms is the right tool"

0/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fahad A.

Consultant | Front End Developer - React

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/3/2020

"Not worth the time and effort to work with outdated technology."

0/5

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenCms?

low productivity, restrictive in templates, enterprise feel of the software with no real productivity or security gains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lustre J.

Software engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/26/2020

"Good platform for cms websites contents like news, articles etc"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Public Policy

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/29/2020

"Open CMS daily use for Pubblic Administration online communication"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenCms?

Easy and intuitive use, many personalization, wide community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenCms?

it fitted all of our goals in terms of usability and communication goals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prasad J.

Workday HCM Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/2/2020

"HCM consultant"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenCms?

Open cms is a secure and likely to be very powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenCms?

It's gui is boring not very likey.

System is difficult to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Billy R.

Web Developer and Email Marketing Specialist / Owner

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/6/2020

"Older Technology that is still in use."

2/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.