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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dynamicweb

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    DynamicWeb is an all-in-one marketing, ecommerce, and content management platform from Dynamicweb Software. It is meant to integrate with existing ERP, CRM, or SharePoint to create a comprehensive and simplified solution for small to medium-sized businesses.N/A

    Plone

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.N/A
    Pricing
    DynamicwebPlone
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DynamicwebPlone
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    DynamicwebPlone
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Dynamicweb and Plone
    Feature
    Dynamicweb
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Dynamicweb and Plone
    Feature
    Dynamicweb
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    25% above category average
    API7.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Dynamicweb and Plone
    Feature
    Dynamicweb
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Plone
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Admin section8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Page templates7.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Library of website themes2.01 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Form generator8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Dynamicweb and Plone
    Feature
    Dynamicweb
    6.8
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Plone
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    SEO support6.01 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Bulk management8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions5.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DynamicwebPlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DynamicwebPlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dynamicweb
    For small/medium organizations where non-professionals should work with the system in everyday situations, Dynamic Web is a good solutions. Works well on Mobile. Not very complicated to add new shops/add new countries to the solution. I have never used the headless functionalities but they should be well working, as I have heard. it should be very easy to implement with Business Central, but I have seen it being more complicated than expected.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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    Pros
    Dynamicweb
    • All-in-one setup makes it easy for a small/medium organization to get an easy and fast go to market
    • Good overview of progress of product enrichment with the built-in dashboard
    • Easy enrichment both in the PIM and with upload of data in excel-sheet
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
    • Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
    • Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
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    Cons
    Dynamicweb
    • Design templates and way to build pages are not very intuitive and lack ease of use for non-professionals
    • Layout of Dynamic Web sites are not the most sexy. But they work!
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
    • Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
    • Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    We have critical systems running on Plone so will need it in the future.
    Free to use since its Open source, so we don't have to worry about licence costs.
    We know how to use and develop Plone and it has no limits.
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    Usability
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small.
    The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
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    Performance
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
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    Support Rating
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    There are not too many Plone companies in the world. But the ones who are, are high level professionals
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    In-Person Training
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    I have been participating Plone training and the trainers have always been professional. Materials were good and the instructions clear
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    Online Training
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dynamicweb
    Easy to use for smaller organization and a pro-active agenzy.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone. Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Dynamicweb
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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    Return on Investment
    Dynamicweb
    • Made selling online very easy
    • Fast go-to-market
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • The impact Plone has had at the University of Oshkosh is as follows: this software allows student workers to learn about IT departments and CMS's in a user-friendly way. It gives many students great jobs that look great on their resumes.
    • Since there are great training manuals for Plone, there is increased employee efficient in the workplace. Training doesn't take long, and if there's ever a question, the Plone manual is a great tool to refer to.
    • If an employee using Plone quits, its easy to find someone to replace them with quick training and great resources.
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