Arc XP vs. OpenText Web CMS

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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OpenText TeamSite is well-suited to large, enterprise-wide implementations where customization, content governance, and dynamic content distribution is needed or prioritized. It is probably not ideal for smaller sites with simple architecture and few resources to manage custom implementation.

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• Enables content creation and curation
• Content distribution. Web and APIs
• Easy to use development framework with good documentation and support

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• The drag and drop forms feature makes publishing simple and quick.
• Preview of customer data before sending publications helps us to deliver personalized experiences.

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• 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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• I have recommendation for improvements.
• It is easy to work with all the features.
• All necessary content management tools are included.

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Overall, it's a solid package with the potential to offer much functionality with appropriate resources applied. There are a few issues with the authoring interface that OpenText should address before its a top shelf authoring experience.

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Our technical resources engage with OpenText TeamSite so I don't have direct experience. However, critical issues that we need help with seem to get the attention they deserve without issue. However, training and user resources for business owner roles are a bit lacking and some annoying issues with the authoring interface should be addressed sooner.

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It offers more content editing features at a relatively low cost thus overall deployment is lower in cost. It has great customer support who are always there to support and answer to our needs thus making the process of deployment seamless at every stage and offering training for working with their product.

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The annual contract should be clearer in terms of the breakdown of user license types (system admin, admin, regular user, etc).

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• 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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• We integrated with google analytics, now we have the proper comprehension of our audience data reception and behaviors - we've greatly improved on personalized marketing.
• Quick publication of content across the main digital channels.
• We run our digital campaigns swiftly.
• We've maintained our brand consistency for three years.

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