Bitrix Site Manager vs. Contentful

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bitrix Site Manager
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Bitrix is an SMB content management system. In February 2015, sale of Bitrix SiteManager was discontinued, though support and upgrades for existing installations can still be obtained.N/A
Contentful
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Contentful 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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Pricing
Bitrix Site ManagerContentful
Editions & Modules
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Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bitrix Site ManagerContentful
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Bitrix Site ManagerContentful
Features
Bitrix Site ManagerContentful
Security
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Bitrix Site Manager
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Ratings
Contentful
8.5
10 Ratings
3% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix Site Manager
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Ratings
Contentful
9.5
12 Ratings
21% above category average
API00 Ratings9.311 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.79 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix Site Manager
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Ratings
Contentful
7.8
13 Ratings
0% above 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 Product A and Product B
Bitrix Site Manager
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Ratings
Contentful
9.4
12 Ratings
23% 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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User Ratings
Bitrix Site ManagerContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bitrix Site ManagerContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
Bitrix
No answers on this topic
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
Bitrix
  • Bitrix is well structured CMS.
  • It provides rich integration with social media.
  • Available modules are mature and well tested.
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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
Bitrix
  • BITRIX does not provide multilingual features to the user-defined contents, although Bitrix does provide multilingual capabilities on system UI specific stuff. For example if our site is publishing company news then BITRIX does not provide an out of the box feature to implement this in different languages.
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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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Likelihood to Renew
Bitrix
Mostly good support, but some times i got response late so overall good. Good options with Ajax load of contents with different URL in browser. Similar and better modules to show different contents. Good options for advertising contents.
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Contentful
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Usability
Bitrix
No answers on this topic
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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Alternatives Considered
Bitrix
I have developed some small web sites in Joomla but the problem is that these kinds of CMS platforms are very easily hackable.
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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
Bitrix
  • Bitrix Site Manager provides an out of the box way to publish contents on a search engine friendly URL. In this way, site contents more easily crawlable by different search engines.
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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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