Craft CMS vs. OpenText Web CMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Craft CMS
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web. Craft can support design portfolios, multinational marketing sites, and other kinds of sites, and integrates with tools like Salesforce, Mailchimp or Hubspot to offer a full business solution.
$130
per month per project
OpenText Web CMS
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
OpenText Web CMS (TeamSite) accelerates and simplifies the end-to-end digital content and campaign lifecycle, from content creation and rich media management to omnichannel publication, optimization, automation, commerce, and community. According to the vendor, with TeamSite, users can: Capture diverse digital audiences with amazing brand experiences – Give customers and prospects consistent, high-quality brand experiences across devices and channels, and foster closer…N/A
Pricing
Craft CMSOpenText Web CMS
Editions & Modules
Team
$130
per month per project
Pro
$240
per month per project
Team
$279
per year includes one year of updates ($99 for support each subsequent year)
Pro
$399
per year includes one year of updates ($99 for support each subsequent year)
Enterprise
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for when a project has specific licensing requirements
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Craft CMSOpenText Web CMS
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsHosted Craft CMS option available with a discount for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Craft CMSOpenText Web CMS
Features
Craft CMSOpenText Web CMS
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Craft CMS
-
Ratings
OpenText Web CMS
8.6
7 Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Craft CMS
-
Ratings
OpenText Web CMS
7.9
7 Ratings
2% above category average
API00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Craft CMS
-
Ratings
OpenText Web CMS
8.0
7 Ratings
3% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.87 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.46 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Craft CMS
-
Ratings
OpenText Web CMS
7.9
7 Ratings
6% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
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User Ratings
Craft CMSOpenText Web CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.4
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
3.6
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Craft CMSOpenText Web CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixel & Tonic
Suitable for mid-size to large websites (20 pages+). If you have a massive project with dozens or hundreds of content contributors, complex editorial process/workflow, are tied to a non-Linux platform (Microsoft Server), you may want an enterprise CMS like Episerver. If you need a small, cheap, theme-based, basic website with 5-15 pages, you'll probably go to WordPress.
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OpenText
OpenText TeamSite is well-suited to large, enterprise-wide implementations where customization, content governance, and dynamic content distribution is needed or prioritized. It is probably not ideal for smaller sites with simple architecture and few resources to manage custom implementation.
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Pros
Pixel & Tonic
  • Design-agnostic templating system. No themes. This means you can use whatever HTML, CSS, JS you want, and integrate it with Craft.
  • Versatile field types, with 3rd party plugins providing a bunch more. Everything from plain text to address, color picker, date/time, file assets, one-to-many relationships, and more.
  • Control panel with clean, responsive UI makes content updates easy for clients.
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OpenText
  • The drag and drop forms feature makes publishing simple and quick.
  • Preview of customer data before sending publications helps us to deliver personalized experiences.
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Cons
Pixel & Tonic
  • Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
  • Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
  • It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.
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OpenText
  • I have recommendation for improvements.
  • It is easy to work with all the features.
  • All necessary content management tools are included.
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Usability
Pixel & Tonic
No answers on this topic
OpenText
Overall, it's a solid package with the potential to offer much functionality with appropriate resources applied. There are a few issues with the authoring interface that OpenText should address before its a top shelf authoring experience.
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Support Rating
Pixel & Tonic
No answers on this topic
OpenText
Our technical resources engage with OpenText TeamSite so I don't have direct experience. However, critical issues that we need help with seem to get the attention they deserve without issue. However, training and user resources for business owner roles are a bit lacking and some annoying issues with the authoring interface should be addressed sooner.
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Alternatives Considered
Pixel & Tonic
Craft was originally developed in response to ExpressionEngine's shortcomings. While ExpressionEngine has caught up in some regards, it still looks and feels a bit unpolished by comparison. Additionally, ExpressionEngine's vendor has never gotten UI right - not on their website, nor in their CMS. Craft remains easier to use, more polished and provides a wider feature set in its base install (without needing plugins). As for WordPress - while I recognize its massive popularity, I find its reliance on themes, third-party plugins, along with security shortcomings, make it a poor fit for the larger custom projects we build. On the other hand, if you want to throw up a passable website in a day, you can't beat WordPress.
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OpenText
It offers more content editing features at a relatively low cost thus overall deployment is lower in cost. It has great customer support who are always there to support and answer to our needs thus making the process of deployment seamless at every stage and offering training for working with their product.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Pixel & Tonic
No answers on this topic
OpenText
The annual contract should be clearer in terms of the breakdown of user license types (system admin, admin, regular user, etc).
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Return on Investment
Pixel & Tonic
  • We don't have hard numbers on Craft's impact on our ROI, but we recognize that its feature set, ease of use, and integrated ECommerce allows offering a superior product to clients.
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OpenText
  • We integrated with google analytics, now we have the proper comprehension of our audience data reception and behaviors - we've greatly improved on personalized marketing.
  • Quick publication of content across the main digital channels.
  • We run our digital campaigns swiftly.
  • We've maintained our brand consistency for three years.
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