Contenta Publishing Suite vs. Plone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Contenta Publishing Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
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The Contenta Publishing Suite from RWS (formerly from SDL, which was acquired by RWS in late 2020) is designed to help users deliver accurate and up-to-date technical content; it is a publishing suite for S1000D technical content, with functionality optimized for each step of the publishing process. WIth it, the vendor states users can manage complex technical documents and deliver critical information to meet objectives, reduce mean time to repair (MTTR), and keep assets up-to-date and…N/A
Plone
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.N/A
Pricing
Contenta Publishing SuitePlone
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Contenta Publishing SuitePlone
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Contenta Publishing SuitePlone
Features
Contenta Publishing SuitePlone
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Contenta Publishing Suite
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Ratings
Plone
10.0
5 Ratings
20% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contenta Publishing Suite
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Ratings
Plone
10.0
5 Ratings
26% above category average
API00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contenta Publishing Suite
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Ratings
Plone
9.4
6 Ratings
19% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Contenta Publishing Suite
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Ratings
Plone
9.4
5 Ratings
23% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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Contenta Publishing SuitePlone
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Contenta Publishing SuitePlone
Likelihood to Recommend
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10.0
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Usability
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
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10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Contenta Publishing SuitePlone
Likelihood to Recommend
RWS Group
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Plone
The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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Pros
RWS Group
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Plone
  • Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
  • Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
  • Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
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Cons
RWS Group
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Plone
  • Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
  • Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
  • Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
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Likelihood to Renew
RWS Group
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Plone
We have critical systems running on Plone so will need it in the future.
Free to use since its Open source, so we don't have to worry about licence costs.
We know how to use and develop Plone and it has no limits.
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Usability
RWS Group
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Plone
Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small.
The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
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Reliability and Availability
RWS Group
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Plone
Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
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Performance
RWS Group
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Plone
Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
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Support Rating
RWS Group
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Plone
There are not too many Plone companies in the world. But the ones who are, are high level professionals
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In-Person Training
RWS Group
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Plone
I have been participating Plone training and the trainers have always been professional. Materials were good and the instructions clear
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Online Training
RWS Group
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Plone
Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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Alternatives Considered
RWS Group
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Plone
Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone. Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better
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Scalability
RWS Group
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Plone
Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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Return on Investment
RWS Group
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Plone
  • The impact Plone has had at the University of Oshkosh is as follows: this software allows student workers to learn about IT departments and CMS's in a user-friendly way. It gives many students great jobs that look great on their resumes.
  • Since there are great training manuals for Plone, there is increased employee efficient in the workplace. Training doesn't take long, and if there's ever a question, the Plone manual is a great tool to refer to.
  • If an employee using Plone quits, its easy to find someone to replace them with quick training and great resources.
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