Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Brightspot
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Brightspot (formerly Perfect Sense) is a content management system for businesses looking to distinguish themselves via digital transformation. The platform helps editors and developers to utilize publishing processes, customized workstreams and collaboration features. This helps users to deliver content to audiences without compromise.N/A
Drupal
Score 6.7 out of 10
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Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A
Strapi
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Strapi is an open-source software platform that helps developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Multiple Products
Brightspot
Chose Brightspot
Best example of ease of use and future flexibility
Drupal

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Features
BrightspotDrupalStrapi
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
8.6
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Drupal
7.8
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Strapi
10.0
1 Ratings
20% above category average
Role-based user permissions8.62 Ratings7.872 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
8.0
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Drupal
7.2
67 Ratings
7% below category average
Strapi
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
API8.22 Ratings6.562 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.72 Ratings7.858 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
7.7
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Drupal
6.2
76 Ratings
23% below category average
Strapi
9.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
WYSIWYG editor8.22 Ratings5.769 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness7.72 Ratings7.973 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section8.22 Ratings6.276 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Page templates8.22 Ratings5.575 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Library of website themes5.92 Ratings5.466 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.72 Ratings6.370 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.22 Ratings6.674 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings5.970 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
7.9
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Drupal
5.9
75 Ratings
23% below category average
Strapi
8.7
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Content taxonomy8.22 Ratings6.569 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support7.32 Ratings5.770 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Bulk management7.32 Ratings5.765 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.62 Ratings5.968 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Community / comment management8.21 Ratings5.767 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(2 ratings)
6.0
(84 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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1.0
(19 ratings)
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Usability
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6.6
(18 ratings)
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Availability
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9.7
(3 ratings)
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Performance
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8.9
(2 ratings)
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Support Rating
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1.0
(5 ratings)
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In-Person Training
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8.0
(1 ratings)
-
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Online Training
-
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6.0
(2 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
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5.1
(4 ratings)
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Ease of integration
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9.0
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
-
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8.0
(2 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Brightspot
Great for any news business
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Drupal.org
Overall, I would give my rating of Drupal a 7/10 because there is an easy user experience for those without a website background but there is some technology work required to build more website capabilities that aren't as user-friendly. Drupal is specifically well suited to update content (like changing Relationship Manager cards when there is employee turnover), post announcements (putting up a holiday banner to let our customers know the dates we will be closed over Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., and creating a sophisticated website hierarchy of pages (for our firm, several dropdowns depending on if you're looking for personal banking, business banking, investment banking, about us, etc.).
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Strapi
1. If a headless CMS is needed. 2. Need the cms UI to be clean. 3. There is a need for customization options in the UI and API as well. 4. Expertise in javascript and need cms with node js backend. 5. Want auth APIs pre-made. 6. Easy to customize the backend as well. 7. The user interface can be fully customizable.
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Pros
Brightspot
  • Ease of use to users
  • Intuitive display
  • High traffic loads
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Drupal.org
  • It has excellent security features and consistent updates.
  • It allows for extensive customization with the integrated themes and core code, especially when you first install it. This allows our dev team to get creative with marketing initiatives.
  • There is a large online community of Drupal users that consistently help answer any questions and issues
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Strapi
  • Free and open source.
  • CMS UI is nice and clean.
  • Customization options.
  • Regular updates and bug fixes.
  • Easy to find and understand docs.
  • Blogs available to learn more.
  • Plugin eco system.
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Cons
Brightspot
  • Personalization features (dependent on integration with a CDP)
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Drupal.org
  • Security and new release notifications are a hassle as they happen too often
  • Allowing them to write PHP modules is a big advantage, but sometimes integrating them is a small challenge due to the version the developer is working on.
  • Steep learning curve, but worth it
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Strapi
  • Tutorial videos.
  • Use typescript for it's backend.
  • Detailed explanation of commands available.
  • More clear docs for releasing.
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Likelihood to Renew
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
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Strapi
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Usability
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
As a team, we found Drupal to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing our development team to go to great lengths to develop desired functionalities. It can be used as a solution for all types of web projects. It comes with a robust admin interface that provides greater flexibility once the user gets acquainted with the system.
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Strapi
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Reliability and Availability
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required. For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
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Strapi
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Performance
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
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Strapi
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Support Rating
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
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Strapi
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In-Person Training
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
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Strapi
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Online Training
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
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Strapi
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Implementation Rating
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
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Strapi
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Alternatives Considered
Brightspot
Best example of ease of use and future flexibility
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Drupal.org
Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, Drupal can be an amazing asset to have at hand.
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Strapi
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Scalability
Brightspot
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Drupal.org
Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
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Strapi
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Return on Investment
Brightspot
  • All positive, allowing the newsroom to react to events without engineering help
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Drupal.org
  • Given the endless possibilities that Drupal can have, we tend to have great support going on when we get a website launched
  • It has become much much faster and easier for us to launch a new project due to reusability
  • Configuration management in Drupal helps greatly with CI/CD, saves us costs
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Strapi
  • Easy to setup.
  • Customize the ui.
  • Increased productivity.
  • Get prebuilt auth apis.
  • Customize the backend and add new apis.
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ScreenShots

Brightspot Screenshots

Screenshot of An example of an article content typeScreenshot of An example of a composable moduleScreenshot of An example of a dashboard

Strapi Screenshots

Screenshot of Content Type BuilderScreenshot of Content Manager edit layoutScreenshot of Content Type builder contents with groupsScreenshot of Content Manager Layout ViewScreenshot of Content Manager List view