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    Arc XP

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AArc XP’s cloud-native tools help organizations create and distribute content, monetize websites and drive ecommerce, and deliver multichannel experiences. With a modular architecture built on AWS, Arc XP’s integrated ecosystem includes an agile content management system (CMS), a suite of digital subscription tools, a built-in DAM and video platform, and a hosted and managed low-code front-end experience platform. Built for flexibility, Arc XP’s agile CMS can be integrated into an existing…N/A

    Contentful

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AContentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.

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    Arc XPContentful
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    Features
    Arc XPContentful
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    Contentful
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
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    9.5
    12 Ratings
    19% above category average
    API00 Ratings9.311 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.79 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Arc XP and Contentful
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    Contentful
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings9.311 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings4.57 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.312 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Arc XP and Contentful
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    Contentful
    9.4
    12 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Arc XPContentful
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    8.3
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    WP Company LLC (The Washington Post)
    Arc XP is the state-of-the-art cloud based CMS for news publishing. It's well suited for large to medium organizations that want a robust, secure and scalable platform. Depending on the use case, it may still require a development team to maintain and make changes to the sites the CMS powers.
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    Contentful
    It's a great all rounder for content projects. It's easy in the basics and powerful in the complex, data heavy scenarios. Extending the platform is straightforward and the SDK gives you everything you need. If you have many many varying content types , it gets expensive and perhaps not the best choice .
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    Pros
    WP Company LLC (The Washington Post)
    • Enables content creation and curation
    • Content distribution. Web and APIs
    • Easy to use development framework with good documentation and support
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    Contentful
    • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
    • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
    • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
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    Cons
    WP Company LLC (The Washington Post)
    • The CMS lacks a responsive design web interface or a good native app alternative.
    • It's heavily dependent on the AWS infrastructure and a disruption of the AWS service can cause serious problems
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    Contentful
    • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
    • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
    • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
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    Usability
    WP Company LLC (The Washington Post)
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    Contentful
    It is a very easy to use and configure application. I find that it is on the user to manage the content after the models have been created, yet I still do not encounter issues finding or creating new components for our site. It is easy to set up and easy to navigate.
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    WP Company LLC (The Washington Post)
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    Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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    Return on Investment
    WP Company LLC (The Washington Post)
    • After the implementation of the CMS, the development team started focusing more on developing new features for the site than maintaining the CMS and the infrastructure. 100% of the work is now focused on creating value to the customer.
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    Contentful
    • Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
    • Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
    • Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.
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