Likelihood to Recommend Amaxus is well suited as a development platform and content management system for companies who have a dedicated, experienced development team because it has such complex functionality. It is not well suited for companies whose main content updater will be a person with limited development experience, because it is so hard to learn and understand how to use.
Read full review As already mentioned, migrating websites from Adobe Business Catalyst, or any other platform is a strength. Using the Siteglide CLI, websites can be migrated as a static site to Siteglide, thus greatly reducing the amount of work necessary for the migration. Also, as long as developers are acquainted with HTML, CSS, Liquid, and Javascript, building sites with Siteglide can be done rapidly using their Siteglide Studio site builder. One of the additional strengths of Siteglide is Webapps. These can be easily used to provide the display and manipulation of dynamic data. The site can be designed so that users can change information without knowing anything about the underlying code. It allows a form-driven way to update site pages.
Read full review Pros There is a lot of flexibility and power with what you can do. The client has a lot of power to make changes on their own without needing a development team. Read full review Webapps Members Zones Data access Read full review Cons There is a huge learning curve for developers. All our new website builds were going beyond the timeline because of the learning curve. It is very complex and teaching our clients how to use it required several training sessions. Read full review Some features are still under development Billing plans occasionally cost more than competition, mainly because of the way Platform OS works "Drag and Drop" website building and maintenance could be improved in order to compete with other site-builders. Less reliance on knowing HTML, CSS, Liquid, Javascript, etc. would be a good direction to go in the future. Read full review Usability There could be an improvement for "non-programmers" and drag and drop editing. However, Siteglide's target market of website development agencies is well served and a great fit. Sites can be migrated from other platforms quickly and easily. New responsive websites can be developed quickly using Siteglide Studio and then robust functionality can be built out quickly and reliably. There is a wide range of features included in Siteglide and more features and upgrades are being rapidly added. The environment is built on a stable and performance-oriented platform. This allows agencies to provide excellent service on a worldwide basis.
Read full review Support Rating Very responsive and a great system in place to facilitate communication.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I have used an in-house CMS which was very simple and only allowed the user to update very basic templated content, and I have used
Sitecore , which is sort of like a middle-of-the-road.
Sitecore is great because it allows for the user to have a lot of control over templates and updating content, but it's not so complex that it is very difficult and time-consuming to learn how to use, like Amaxus.
Read full review Siteglide knocks the socks off
Duda in terms functionality, it's eCommerce isn't a match for
Shopify (yet) but it's got a lot more flexibility and functionality than
Shopify which comes up short if businesses want to do more than sell products...and versus
WordPress , well, it's just much more professional and doesn't fall on its arse.
Read full review Return on Investment It has a negative impact because it put us back on our timelines. It had a negative impact because our customers didn't like the learning curve to use it. It had a negative impact because it caused so much stress among our team to learn it. Read full review It allows us to seel complicated sites to customers with lower budgets It's quick to migrate sites to It's cost effective Read full review ScreenShots