Bitrix24 vs. Joomla!

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bitrix24
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Bitrix24 is a local-hosted or cloud-based social intranet and project management platform that also contains core HR (HRMS) and CRM features. Bitrix24 also provides time management services and employee self-service.
$61
per month up to 5 users
Joomla
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A
Pricing
Bitrix24Joomla!
Editions & Modules
Basic
$61
per month up to 5 users
Standard
$124
per month up to 50 users
Professional
$249
per month up to 100 users
Enterprise 250
$399.00
per month 250 Users
Enterprise
$499
per month up to 250 Users
Enterprise 500
$639.00
per month 500 Users
Enterprise 1000
$799.00
per month 1000 Users
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bitrix24Joomla
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrice per month when paying for 1 year.
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Community Pulse
Bitrix24Joomla!
Features
Bitrix24Joomla!
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix24
8.7
22 Ratings
12% above category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
Task Management7.922 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling10.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.719 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access9.621 Ratings00 Ratings
Search8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools8.920 Ratings00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix24
8.6
22 Ratings
8% above category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
Chat9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications9.822 Ratings00 Ratings
Discussions8.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Surveys8.815 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase8.119 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting8.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix24
8.0
23 Ratings
1% above category average
Joomla!
-
Ratings
Versioning7.919 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files6.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files6.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration7.823 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control9.821 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced security features8.919 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync9.619 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix24
-
Ratings
Joomla!
8.4
51 Ratings
2% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.451 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix24
-
Ratings
Joomla!
6.8
48 Ratings
13% below category average
API00 Ratings7.246 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.547 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix24
-
Ratings
Joomla!
7.8
54 Ratings
1% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.353 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.651 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.449 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings6.952 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings6.550 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.750 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.746 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix24
-
Ratings
Joomla!
7.6
52 Ratings
3% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.850 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings8.149 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings7.450 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bitrix24Joomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(23 ratings)
8.3
(75 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(10 ratings)
8.2
(14 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(9 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bitrix24Joomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
Bitrix24
Bitrix24 is highly beneficial for teams that are geographically dispersed or working remotely. Its real-time communication tools, including instant messaging and video conferencing, enable seamless collaboration regardless of physical location. The centralized document management feature ensures that team members can easily access and collaborate on shared documents from anywhere, facilitating efficient teamwork in a remote or distributed environment.
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The Joomla Project
If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
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Pros
Bitrix24
  • Huge opportunities for customization, integration with other services. Easy search for solutions to setup questions.
  • The ability to write letters directly from the system with the help of a binding for working mail.
  • The presence of an application for Android. This helps to get access anywhere.
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The Joomla Project
  • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
  • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
  • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
  • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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Cons
Bitrix24
  • It's user interface can use some work. Although it doesn't take as long as some other software to learn, there is still a bit of a learning curve when it comes to day to day usage.
  • Bitrix offers a lot of features. It would be nice to have those features laid out in an easier-to-read layout, versus the long list at the side of the page.
  • It's mobile app functionality is quite limited. It can be difficult to work with other team members, solely off of their mobile app.
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The Joomla Project
  • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
  • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
  • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
  • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
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Likelihood to Renew
Bitrix24
It has become the central nervous system of the business and has constantly proven to be of value. We are not just renewing but might even upgrade to advanced Bitrix24 plans and will be adding more user licenses in the next 3 months. Bitrix24 has a sharper learning curve initially. However once it is surpassed, it opens doors to a range of creative deployment strategies
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The Joomla Project
I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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Usability
Bitrix24
It is a time-saving CRM that will help save time by using one application for all your business needs. Our brain sees colors, images, drawings, it is very visual, and so is Bitrix24. You can plan visually and easily see how everything is progressing. It has tasks, projects management, chat and video, CRM (as you know), visual staff structure, calendar, shared drive, mobile app. You can't ask for anything better out on the market for what you get with their free version and also their step-up plan is $20/month, all the way up to $200, they have a plan for your business. Get your free account and try it out for a few weeks.
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The Joomla Project
Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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Reliability and Availability
Bitrix24
I can't recall any instance of unplanned outages over the past 1 year of use. Likewise for application errors. However note that, advanced users will have a learning curve
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The Joomla Project
No answers on this topic
Performance
Bitrix24
Technical performance is 10/10 so far. Cannot comment about integrations since we currently haven't tested those
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The Joomla Project
Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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Support Rating
Bitrix24
The absolute worst! Your only contact method is via the paid version and via a chat window. They will take days to answer and when they finally do answer, they will provide nothing but a half baked canned help file.
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The Joomla Project
Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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Online Training
Bitrix24
Overall the training was very comprehensive. The trainer did provider necessary additional reading materials as well. However the general approach at Bitrix24 is to divert users to self-help documentation and videos. It is recommended that atleast 1-2 personnel in the organization be "Bitrix24 experts" so that lower phases of training requirements are covered internally itself. Also the best part about Bitrix24 is that not all users need to go very deep while using it. We have multiple counsellors who started using it on day 2 without any major hiccups
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The Joomla Project
It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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Implementation Rating
Bitrix24
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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Alternatives Considered
Bitrix24
In fact, I use both, but in different ways, monday to control the internal agenda, Bitrix for all other parts within the company, such as task control, chat with employees and with calendar also for control in two systems. Bitrix is ​​more complete and has many more features, but its purpose is also different from monday.
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The Joomla Project
We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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Scalability
Bitrix24
The scalability and reliability is almost 9.5/10 to be honest. We istarted with Bitrix24 for just 2 functions and now have expanded its usage to 2 more. In terms of users, every full-time employee (FTE) now uses Bitrix24 without fail. We are also working on giving limited/partial access to external service providers
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The Joomla Project
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Bitrix24
  • It definitely has a positive impact as it helps with collaboration and improves data health.
  • Overall it reduces time and speeds up the processes and helps achieve more in the less time.
  • It has helped target the right customers and the success ration or the success rate has gone up when we have sent out marketing campaigns.
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The Joomla Project
  • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
  • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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ScreenShots

Bitrix24 Screenshots

Screenshot of Bitrix24 Video Call.Screenshot of Bitrix24 Unlimited CRM.Screenshot of Bitrix24 Tasks.Screenshot of