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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentful

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AContentful 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.

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    TYPO3

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATYPO3 CMS is an open source web content management system with a global community, backed by the approximately 900 members of the TYPO3 Association.

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    Pricing
    ContentfulTYPO3
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $300
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    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Security
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    Feature
    Contentful
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
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    Role-based user permissions8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentful and TYPO3
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.5
    12 Ratings
    20% above category average
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    API9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.79 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentful and TYPO3
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    TYPO3
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    WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentful and TYPO3
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.4
    12 Ratings
    22% above category average
    TYPO3
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    Content taxonomy10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ContentfulTYPO3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    8.0
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    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    ContentfulTYPO3
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentful
    It's a great all rounder for content projects. It's easy in the basics and powerful in the complex, data heavy scenarios. Extending the platform is straightforward and the SDK gives you everything you need. If you have many many varying content types , it gets expensive and perhaps not the best choice .
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    Open Source
    TYPO3 is great if you need to connect some systems in company to work together: like ecommerce + CRM + ERP + MRP and build an Extranet for partners/dealers where they can order your products, see particular BOM (bill of material), paid/unpaid invoices and use email marketing on top of it. You can do it but keep in mind that you will need a dedicated hosting, well organized admin(s) and some handwritten code. For simple blog TYPO3 is also a good choose, but WP would be better I think.
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    Pros
    Contentful
    • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
    • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
    • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
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    Open Source
    • open source - do what you want, and even if you dont know how to do it - someone will do it for you
    • more secure than others (Joomla, WP, Drupal) - thanks to dedicated Typo3 Security Team
    • modularity and diversity - a lot of plugins/extensions
    • workflow and user roles - feel free to build a workflow templates ie. for documents routing
    • assets management - no matter is it a video, audio or text file, you can REALLY manage it.
    • typoscript language - sometimes JS is not enough
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    Cons
    Contentful
    • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
    • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
    • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
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    Open Source
    • compared do Wordpress - far less community support
    • when you run a simple blog - it is simple as piece of cake. But if it is a large news site, with many user roles, extensions and permissions - it may be hard to find an admin that will organize and keep that stuff working.
    • server resources: so you want performance and speed with all that modules enabled? make sure that you have dedicated server in most cases. WP works much better here.
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    Usability
    Contentful
    It is a very easy to use and configure application. I find that it is on the user to manage the content after the models have been created, yet I still do not encounter issues finding or creating new components for our site. It is easy to set up and easy to navigate.
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    Open Source
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    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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    Open Source
    • more complex and elastic revoke system (undoing changes for multi-administrator systems) PHP/JS and TypoScript language
    • LTS - long ter msupport (bugfixes and updates)
    • usage rights and permissions (much more advanced thatn in WP/Joomla)
    • separation of design and content (in WP also but here is complex)
    • many plugins to integrate with external systems
    • several portals may be operated from a single admin/install
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    Return on Investment
    Contentful
    • Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
    • Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
    • Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.
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    Open Source
    • + 1 platform that handles connections to 11 external systems (CMS, CMR, ERP, MRP, accounting, controlling, email marketing etc.)
    • + still lower TCO than commercial systems (Oracle, Microsoft)
    • + LTS - long term support - can provide you an updates or bugfixes
    • - resource consuming (forget about shared hosting in large projects)
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