Drupal vs. Oracle WebCenter Portal

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Drupal
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A
Oracle WebCenter Portal
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Oracle WebCenter Portal is presented by the vendor as a web platform that allows organizations to create intranets, extranets, composite applications, and self-service portals, providing users a more secure and efficient way of consuming information and interacting with applications, processes, and other users.N/A
Pricing
DrupalOracle WebCenter Portal
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DrupalOracle WebCenter Portal
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DrupalOracle WebCenter Portal
Features
DrupalOracle WebCenter Portal
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Drupal
6.1
67 Ratings
29% below category average
Oracle WebCenter Portal
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions6.167 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Drupal
6.6
64 Ratings
16% below category average
Oracle WebCenter Portal
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Ratings
API5.259 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.155 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Drupal
6.7
70 Ratings
15% below category average
Oracle WebCenter Portal
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor5.663 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness7.167 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section6.670 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates5.669 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes6.660 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.164 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.068 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator5.165 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Drupal
6.8
69 Ratings
8% below category average
Oracle WebCenter Portal
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy10.064 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support3.764 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management8.160 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions6.163 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management6.163 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
ManageWP
ManageWP
Score 10.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
RWS Tridion Sites
RWS Tridion Sites
Score 9.0 out of 10
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
RWS Tridion Sites
RWS Tridion Sites
Score 9.0 out of 10
Verint Community
Verint Community
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
DrupalOracle WebCenter Portal
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(79 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.0
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DrupalOracle WebCenter Portal
Likelihood to Recommend
Drupal.org
Drupal is best suited for a dynamic website that needs customization and may need different user roles. It’s also great at learning to build a complex web application without knowing how to code a complex website. Although it can be implemented with minimal coding, knowing how to debug is almost necessary.
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Oracle
Based on my experience with Oracle WebCenter Portal, it is best suited for [Oracle's] existing customers who are already familiar with Oracle products but need to look for [a] specific topic in a broad sense. It is also suitable for people who are not Oracle customers yet but has industry experience and simply looking to enhance their Oracle knowledge and compare [it] with other products in the industry. I think it's less appropriate for people who are looking for answers to very specific technical questions for an Oracle product.
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Pros
Drupal.org
  • Content Types... these are amazing. Whereas a more simplistic CMS like Wordpress will basically allow you to make posts and build pages, Drupal 8 gives you the ability to define different types of content that behave differently, and are served up differently in different areas of the website.
  • Extensibility... it scales, ohhhh does it scale. They've really figured out server-side caching, and it makes all the difference. Once a page has been cached, it's available instantly to all users worldwide; and when coupled with AWS, global redundancy and localization mean that no matter where you're accessing the site, it always loads fast and crisp.
  • Workflows... you have the ability to define very specific roles and/or user-based editorial workflows, allowing for as many touchpoints and reviews between content creation and publication as you'll require.
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Oracle
  • Allows personalization integration
  • Allows API integration
  • Google search integration
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Cons
Drupal.org
  • Security and new release notifications are a hassle as they happen too often
  • Allowing them to write PHP modules is a big advantage, but sometimes integrating them is a small challenge due to the version the developer is working on.
  • Steep learning curve, but worth it
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Oracle
  • Unexpected cryptic error messages.
  • The site does not seem to have SSO capability as I have logged into my user account already, but it still can't verify at the Support page
  • AI should be built into the portal to auto-assist when error occurs.
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Likelihood to Renew
Drupal.org
The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
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Oracle
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Usability
Drupal.org
In comparison to other CMS alternatives out there, it is quite clean and maintainable when it comes to the small details. The general usability is great once you get to learn the details of it. The problem is that the onboarding process for new developers is a bit hard since there is no official, straight-forward documentation or video series.
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Oracle
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Reliability and Availability
Drupal.org
Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required. For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
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Oracle
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Performance
Drupal.org
Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
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Oracle
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Support Rating
Drupal.org
As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
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Oracle
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In-Person Training
Drupal.org
I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
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Oracle
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Online Training
Drupal.org
The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
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Oracle
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Implementation Rating
Drupal.org
Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
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Oracle
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Alternatives Considered
Drupal.org
Drupal is community-backed making it more accessible and growing at a faster rate than Sitefinity which is a proprietary product built on .NET. Drupal is PHP-based using some but not all Symphony codebase. Updates for Drupal are frequent and so are feature adds.
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Oracle
It's all comparable and very expensive.
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Scalability
Drupal.org
Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
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Oracle
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Return on Investment
Drupal.org
  • Drupal has allowed us to build up a library of code and base sites we can reuse to save time which has increased our efficiency and thus had a positive financial impact.
  • Drupal has allowed us to take on projects we otherwise would not have been able to, having a further impact.
  • Drupal has allowed us to build great solutions for our clients which give them an excellent ROI.
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Oracle
  • It's hard to calculate specifically the ROI Oracle WebCenter Portal had.
  • After all, this is a portal for users to find information.
  • This is a starting point for users to navigate, and it would be dependent on how far the users drill down to get the specific information they need to grow their business.
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