Akeneo vs. LightCMS (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akeneo
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Akeneo is a Product Experience Management (PXM) solution from the French company of the same name, that helps merchants and brands deliver customer experiences across all sales channels, including eCommerce, mobile, print, and retail points of sale. Akeneo’s open source enterprise PIM, and product data intelligence solutions, aim to improve product data quality and accuracy while simplifying and accelerating product catalog management.N/A
LightCMS (discontinued)
Score 6.1 out of 10
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LightCMS, from NetSuite, was a cloud-based content management system for building websites and eCommerce storefronts. It is designed to be used by individuals, non-profits, and small to medium-sized businesses. The product has been discontinued.N/A
Pricing
AkeneoLightCMS (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AkeneoLightCMS (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AkeneoLightCMS (discontinued)
Features
AkeneoLightCMS (discontinued)
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Akeneo
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Ratings
LightCMS (discontinued)
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Akeneo
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Ratings
LightCMS (discontinued)
9.1
1 Ratings
16% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Akeneo
-
Ratings
LightCMS (discontinued)
7.3
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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AkeneoLightCMS (discontinued)
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User Ratings
AkeneoLightCMS (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AkeneoLightCMS (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Akeneo
It's well suited to an environment which has multiple users working on product information at the same time. For smaller organisations, it would be easy to segregate products for the different users to focus on their span of work, but this has been somewhat tricky in a multi-company environment like ours where we have different users working on the same / similar products. Overall though, we're happy with the product.
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Discontinued Products
LightCMS is perfect for 90% of websites out there. It has all the basic modules like calendars, photo galleries, news/blog, or forms building built in. Small businesses to mid-sized businesses are perfect for LightCMS. We use other solutions when the requierments for the website include a lot of third party integrations or custom modules. As a hosted CMS it has the same limitations as others with server-side development.
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Pros
Akeneo
  • Product Data Management
  • Product Asset Management
  • Data Quality & Consistency
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  • LightCMS provides all the major functionality 90% of sites need. It keeps out of its own way by making these solutions intuitive and simple and not trying to solve every problem for everyone which would over-complicate the tool-set.
  • This is the easiest to use CMS we have ever seen. I tell my client's that if they can make a Facebook post, they can manage their website, and it's true. Their UI is so easy and keeps getting easier to use. Untrained users get it in minutes and are able to manage their sites without our help.
  • LightCMS's code is simple and light-weight. Sites are fast and the CMS doesnt get in the way of performance.
  • You can do almost anything you want (except server-side programming) with LightCMS. So, we can create any design we want and it works great with Light CMS's tokens and editable regions concept (which is also simple to implement.)
  • Constantly upgraded and fixed, the product is 1000x better after 10 years of working with it, but is still simple and not bloated.
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Cons
Akeneo
  • Product approval & multi-tier workflow for larger organisations
  • Table attributes are limiting
  • Access rights and product segmentation to user groups
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  • While keeping it simple is LightCMS's thing, some of the elements/modules could use deeper options or control for advanced users.
  • Some content, such as calendars, cannot have data exported/imported easily.
  • Support was amazing 10 years ago. We openly talked about how awesome they were... it isn't as good as it once was, but is still way above almost every support of other CMS systems we have used.
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Alternatives Considered
Akeneo
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Discontinued Products
We have looked at hundrends of CMS's and LightCMS is a perfect entry-level system for most of our small to mid sized clients. LightCMS's feature set is less complex than almost every other system and the actual interface is miles ahead of most other CMS systems. It's simply thought out better. It lacks sensibility and an API as well as other advanced features many more expensive or more DIY systems have, but the simplicity makes up for it.
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Return on Investment
Akeneo
  • Time to market has reduced
  • Increased efficiencies due to the reduction of duplicate work
  • Increase in data quality
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  • While I always think the price could be cheaper, LightCMS is incredibly inexpensive if you consider the costs of hosting, support, and upgrading is all included.
  • As part of their partner program, we are able to control client accounts from our master account, making moving between clients easier and supporting them faster which ultimately makes our labor costs better.
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