Crownpeak CMS vs. Laravel PHP Framework

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Crownpeak CMS
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Crownpeak CMS is a composable, enterprise-ready content management system that empowers global teams to seamlessly orchestrate personalized digital experiences across all content channels. Marketing teams can create, manage, and monitor inclusive, accessible, and transactional experiences fast without compromising on functionality, security, or service.N/A
Laravel PHP Framework
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.N/A
Pricing
Crownpeak CMSLaravel PHP Framework
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Crownpeak CMSLaravel PHP Framework
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Crownpeak CMSLaravel PHP Framework
Top Pros
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Features
Crownpeak CMSLaravel PHP Framework
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
8.9
25 Ratings
10% above category average
Laravel PHP Framework
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Role-based user permissions8.925 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
8.0
22 Ratings
4% above category average
Laravel PHP Framework
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API7.819 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.120 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
8.1
27 Ratings
6% above category average
Laravel PHP Framework
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WYSIWYG editor7.726 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness7.626 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section8.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates8.427 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.527 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator7.823 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Crownpeak CMS
7.9
27 Ratings
7% above category average
Laravel PHP Framework
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Content taxonomy7.725 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support8.524 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management8.122 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.321 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Crownpeak CMSLaravel PHP Framework
Small Businesses
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter
Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Symfony
Symfony
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
Crownpeak CMSLaravel PHP Framework
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(30 ratings)
7.9
(17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(16 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.6
(27 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(15 ratings)
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Configurability
8.2
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
8.6
(2 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(2 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Crownpeak CMSLaravel PHP Framework
Likelihood to Recommend
Crownpeak
Crownpeak DXM is a great solution if you are looking for a flexible platform that allows engineers to quickly develop while also making it easy for content authors to work especially in scenarios where you need multi-language support. It is also good for scenarios where you want a cloud-based solution and are looking for just one vendor to handle hosting and offer the CMS.
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Open Source
Laravel is ideally suited for fluent PHP developers who want a framework that can be used to both rapidly prototype web applications as well as support scalable, enterprise-level solutions. I think where it is less ideal is where the client has an expectation of using a certain CMS, or of having a certain experience on the admin side that would perhaps be better suited to a full CMS such as Drupal or WordPress. Additionally, for developers who don't want to write PHP code, Laravel may not be the best solution.
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Pros
Crownpeak
  • Build & manage digital experiences without dependency on your IT team
  • Built-in Digital Quality tool (DQM) tool allows you to check the quality of content and any accessibility issues and immediately flag any issues before publishing.
  • Build websites with the component-based technology and spend less effort in creating the best user experience for the end-user
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  • Many libraries available which simplify integration of SaaS APIs within your application (eg, MailChimp, Mandrill, Stripe, Authorize.net)
  • Pre-packaged tools to facilitate common tasks when building applications (eg, User Authentication and Authorization, Background Jobs, Queues, etc)
  • Support for a broad set of technologies out of the box (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MemcacheD, BeanstalkD, Redis, etc)
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Cons
Crownpeak
  • Crownpeak moved to a web browser admin tool in 2018, which has made the admin experience much better, but there are still a couple of features missing from the browser version that won't arrive until later in 2019.
  • Integration with 3rd party digital asset management tools would be great.
  • Smoother integration with source control would be nice.
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  • Significant learning curve. You cannot be an expert in a week. It takes many experimentations to properly understand the underlying concept. We ourselves learned it by using it on the job.
  • Too much to soak in. Laravel is in everything. Any part of backend development you wish to do, Laravel has a way to do that. It is great, but also overwhelming at the same time.
  • Vendor lock in. Once you are in Laravel, it would not be easy to switch to something else.
  • Laracasts (their online video tutorials) are paid :( I understand the logic behind it, but I secretly wish it would be free.
  • The eloquent ORM is not my recommendation. Let's say you want to write a join, and based on the result you wish to create two objects. If you use Laravel to do automatic joins for you, Laravel internally actually makes two calls to database and creates your two object rather than making one join call and figuring out the results. This makes your queries slow. For this reason, I use everything except eloquent from Laravel. I rather write my own native queries and control the creation of objects then rely on Laravel to do it. But I am sure with time Laravel will make fewer calls to DB.
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Likelihood to Renew
Crownpeak
None of our Crownpeak clients are currently thinking about replatforming.
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Open Source
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Usability
Crownpeak
Crownpeak DXM is a flexible easy to use CMS platform speaking to the most challenging localization scenarios. Crownpeak users have the freedom to integrate DXM platform with their existing technology at no cost. Moving from legacy systems to the Saas platform is painless and cost-effective. Extensive targeting and personalization options are something that users will benefit from.
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Open Source
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Reliability and Availability
Crownpeak
We have never encountered any issues with the availability.
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Open Source
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Performance
Crownpeak
Pages load very fast on production (assuming you develop with basic SEO practices in place) due to Crownpeak's publishing architecture. The slide downside is that publishing can be a bit slow at times.
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Open Source
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Support Rating
Crownpeak
Crownpeak DXM's service and support are outstanding. We have immediate access to both the tech support team and the software engineering team. We can get a support person on the phone whenever needed, and we can schedule impromptu training sessions at any time. Best support I have ever received from a platform provider in 20 years of software and application development.
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Open Source
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In-Person Training
Crownpeak
We received on-site training from Crownpeak, the trainer had touched upon every possible scenario and provided great insights about the product & ease of implementation.
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Open Source
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Online Training
Crownpeak
My team left training with a solid understanding of how to use the product and the developer training ended with a test to ensure the ability to properly develop was learned properly. Recently, Crownpeak has added a self-paced training option which makes it extremely flexible to on-board new developers.
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Open Source
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Implementation Rating
Crownpeak
SaaS model is perfect for us to avoid slow and costly version updates to get access to new features and functions. Crownpeak is a true SaaS model, so we get all the good new stuff without the need to invest in effort, time or money. this frees our teams to focus on content creation and deployment, which is pretty fast because the DXM publishes straight to html through the headless model.
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Open Source
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Alternatives Considered
Crownpeak
I was not at this team within my organization during the evaluation period of Crownpeak. However, my previous team used Sitecore. Crownpeak is a bit easier to use from a UI perspective and has more creative options within the tool. Sitecore's clunky UI also was a reason I found out later why we ended up using Crownpeak as our DXM.
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Open Source
Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you if you have problems. Using Laravel, integration became easy with third-party libraries, but it was costly too.
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Scalability
Crownpeak
In some recent projects we have delivered to our clients, we were able to roll out sites in shorter time period due the scalability of the Crownpeak's DXM solution.
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Open Source
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Return on Investment
Crownpeak
  • I'm pretty sure it raises our back-end development costs by making the development process (of creating input forms and producing outputs from the content) more complicated and painful than it needs to be.
  • It helps lock our clients in to us because not a whole lot of agencies have Crownpeak expertise.
  • It helps our clients not have to deal with their own IT teams, which they tend to dislike working with.
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Open Source
  • Laravel allows us to rapidly prototype and build complete, scalable applications internally, which saves us time and allows us to have internal tools that fit out precise needs. We use Symfony for a similar purpose, but Laravel is an even higher-level framework that we find saves us substantially more time when building many types of web applications.
  • Laravel solves many of the underlying concerns of building a large application (such as authentication, authorization, secure input handling) in the right ways. It saves us from handling those low-level concerns ourselves, potentially in a way that could take a lot of time or sets us up for issues in the future. It's tough to assign an ROI to this, but I'm sure it has prevented issues and saved time, which both have an impact on our financial situation.
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