Bitrix Site Manager vs. Jahia Digital Experience Platform

In my experience, Jahia Digital Experience Platform as a CMS platform is excellent when you have a large amount of content that needs to be customized. It is also good for when you have templated content that has minor variations. I would say it is less appropriate when the content has numerous mathematical computations, or a large amount of business logic that comes into play with data processing.

Incentivized

• Bitrix is well structured CMS.
• It provides rich integration with social media.
• Available modules are mature and well tested.

• Content management: It is very easy to update text, images, files and videos even for a non technical user.
• Multi-site Management: It has a robust multi-site management capability, It helps in maintaining multiple websites with consistent branding.
• Digital asset management: It is easier to store organize and retrieve images, videos and documents.
• It has a great built-in analytics and reporting feature.

• 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.

• It lacks the ability to manage multiple versions of a page or content in general.
• The back office interface sometimes encounters bugs or display problems.
• It's difficult to keep pre-production sites up to date in terms of content compared to production, because the time required to import/export sites is very long once the site is rich in content.

Incentivized

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.

I would not use Jahia as it proved too complex for our needs and didn't help our over goal of customer satisfaction. Along with the man hours to build and execute, it wasn't worth the hassle

The interface and ergonomics are designed to facilitate the use of the product. The creation of template is easy which allows to minimize the actions necessary for the provision of content.

[I give it this rating because it] was up most of the time. There are so many scheduled reboots that I don't think it would be a good choice for a 95% SLA.

Incentivized

It's stable after upgrade to Jahia 8. Not much server down so far

Incentivized

As I was saying, the support makes sure to be available for any question, or any technical point that we may need to discuss about. Moreover, whenever we have an issue with the platform they get alerted and also send us an email so that we are aware. We had multiple complex topics to work on in the past, but they always have been answering our question

Incentivized

I have developed some small web sites in Joomla but the problem is that these kinds of CMS platforms are very easily hackable.

Jahia provides a similar user experience to other CMS I have used in the past - it features a simple interface that makes navigating and learning how to use the platform easy and the ability to copy and paste content saves time and effort when building new pages. The ease in which you can manage the site in different languages is also a big plus!

Incentivized

You can create your own feature module and it can be resuable across the projects. The Java libraries is available for development of Tomcat or JSP

Incentivized

• 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.

• Our once frustrated contributors are now happy to create content with Jahia Digital Experience Platform!
• Pages are snappy and bug-free, which wasn't always the case.
• Jahia Digital Experience Platform has mapped our complex organization into nice roles and permissions.
• All our external services were nicely integrated into a modern portal.

Incentivized