Contentful vs. Jahia Digital Experience Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Contentful
Score 7.6 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.
$489
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Jahia is a Java-based enterprise content management system. It features an integrated user portal, web publishing and content management, document management, collaboration, and multi-channel publishing.N/A
Pricing
ContentfulJahia Digital Experience Platform
Editions & Modules
Team
489/month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ContentfulJahia Digital Experience Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ContentfulJahia Digital Experience Platform
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ContentfulJahia Digital Experience Platform
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.3
8 Ratings
11% below category average
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
8.7
34 Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions7.38 Ratings8.734 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
9 Ratings
5% above category average
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
8.5
35 Ratings
2% above category average
API8.38 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.76 Ratings9.035 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.7
10 Ratings
0% below category average
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
7.1
35 Ratings
7% below category average
WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings9.034 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.56 Ratings3.330 Ratings
Admin section8.08 Ratings8.333 Ratings
Page templates7.64 Ratings8.634 Ratings
Library of website themes7.52 Ratings4.12 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.75 Ratings7.833 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.09 Ratings7.933 Ratings
Form generator7.01 Ratings7.726 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
9 Ratings
8% above category average
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
6.1
34 Ratings
17% below category average
Content taxonomy8.08 Ratings9.03 Ratings
SEO support7.07 Ratings6.034 Ratings
Bulk management7.75 Ratings6.329 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.56 Ratings4.73 Ratings
Community / comment management9.01 Ratings4.53 Ratings
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User Ratings
ContentfulJahia Digital Experience Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(10 ratings)
8.4
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(9 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(12 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ContentfulJahia Digital Experience Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentful
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
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Jahia Solutions
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.
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Pros
Contentful
  • Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
  • High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
  • Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
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Jahia Solutions
  • 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.
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Cons
Contentful
  • The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
  • The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
  • It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
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Jahia Solutions
  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Contentful
No answers on this topic
Jahia Solutions
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
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Usability
Contentful
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Jahia Solutions
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.
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Reliability and Availability
Contentful
No answers on this topic
Jahia Solutions
[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.
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Performance
Contentful
No answers on this topic
Jahia Solutions
It's stable after upgrade to Jahia 8. Not much server down so far
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Support Rating
Contentful
No answers on this topic
Jahia Solutions
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
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Alternatives Considered
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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Jahia Solutions
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!
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Scalability
Contentful
No answers on this topic
Jahia Solutions
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
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Return on Investment
Contentful
  • There was no negative impact as such.
  • Positive impact is increase in sales.
  • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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Jahia Solutions
  • 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.
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