HubSpot Content Hub vs. Percussion CMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HubSpot Content Hub
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Hubspot Content Hub is used to take control of content assets. The unified platform is used to manage, update, and distribute content from a central location, ensuring everyone has access to the most up-to-date and relevant materials.
$20
per month
Percussion CMS
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Percussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content.N/A
Pricing
HubSpot Content HubPercussion CMS
Editions & Modules
Starter
$20
per month per seat
Content Hub Professional
$500
per month 3 seats included, $50 for each additional seat
Content Hub Enterprise
$1500
per month 5 seats included, $75 for each additional seat
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HubSpot Content HubPercussion CMS
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAnnual commitment required. A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
HubSpot Content HubPercussion CMS
Features
HubSpot Content HubPercussion CMS
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
HubSpot Content Hub
-
Ratings
Percussion CMS
3.0
1 Ratings
93% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
HubSpot Content Hub
-
Ratings
Percussion CMS
3.0
1 Ratings
88% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
HubSpot Content Hub
-
Ratings
Percussion CMS
1.6
1 Ratings
129% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
HubSpot Content Hub
-
Ratings
Percussion CMS
1.0
1 Ratings
154% below category average
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
HubSpot Content HubPercussion CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(18 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HubSpot Content HubPercussion CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
HubSpot
If you want all your marketing activities to be in one place, where your CRM and customer data exist, go for Hubspot's entire suite, which could include CMS, depending on your needs. If you have to create a company blog, marketing landing pages for events or lead generation, or send decently designed newsletters, Hubspot does the job well. Any company that has grown to enterprise level or has fragmented marketing should probably not use Hubspot CMS because of the fragmented activities that might occur. Hubspot's reporting can also break. Also, if you want your designed pages to be very creative with many animations, Hubspot CMS is probably not the way to go. But for anyone who is still finding their footing, go for it.
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Percussion Software
Best suited for large organizations where everyone knows how to deal with Java in an increasingly Java unfriendly world. Said organization should be willing to pay a huge price for a piece of dinosaur technology
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Pros
HubSpot
  • Asset control is super easy if your willing to create folder structures that make sense
  • Drag and drop building elements are great, even if you create custom blocks
  • control of domains and how they link into your main system is super easy
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Percussion Software
  • Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security
  • Highly scalable
  • Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc..
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Cons
HubSpot
  • Although you can integrate it with Google Analytics, there is still a significant difference between what each tells you about [a] number of visitors to a given page, etc.
  • There's a lot to the program and it's not always intuitive where to go for a feature. Though the help center and academy are good and usually have the answers, having to look things up isn't.
  • It's expensive.
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Percussion Software
  • One word: JAVA! We don't live in the 1990's anymore! An AJAX/DHTML environment seems a long time coming.
  • Horrible end-user experience, learning curve. Our end users' inability to easily use the archaic, Java-based interface, means they send the web developer their content requests. This creates a huge bottleneck and completely defeats the purpose of a CMS.
  • Image mangement and integration with content is aweful and time consuming. An image processing tool called ImedImage was developed for Percussion at one point, and left completely stagnant with very little support.
  • Implementation is extremely complicated, given the complexity of the system. Sure, scalability is a good thing, but there is very little out-of-the box function. Don't expect to implement a site as quickly as with other CMS platforms.
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Likelihood to Renew
HubSpot
I don't think we justify the amount of usage we have of CMS Hub professional. We might discontinue it to save some bucks. But if we ever need an extensive solution, we'll come back to it, as we already other products of Hubspot (Sales Hub, Reporting, Automations)
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Percussion Software
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Usability
HubSpot
HubSpot CMS HUB is well-rounded and brings a robust list of capabilities while maintaining an ease-of-use that beginners can engage. HubSpot is by far the best at doing this among the half-dozen or so CMS platforms I've used in my 20+ years experience. It turns glorified business card websites into purposeful marketing machines that become a key part of a marketing strategy rather than a complicated and frustrating mess.
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Percussion Software
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
HubSpot
As of now we didn't face any application errors and unplanned outages.
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Percussion Software
No answers on this topic
Performance
HubSpot
Yes the pages load fastly and this tool is pretty good in integration with other tools like zapier, calendly and so on.
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Percussion Software
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
HubSpot
They are always there to help in any way possible. Our account manager works out any situations we may encounter during business hours
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Percussion Software
No answers on this topic
Online Training
HubSpot
Pretty easy and resources available at fingertips.
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Percussion Software
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Implementation Rating
HubSpot
Yes, recreation of landing pages, forms and email templates.
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Percussion Software
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Alternatives Considered
HubSpot
We have about 10 seats that were needed. Wanted a sales platform that had good status and reputation. HubSpot was the best choice for me given Salesforce not being the best in the past. Price was appealing and our team liked the overlay. Other options do not provide the same ability with data
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Percussion Software
No contest. I can't wait to get off of Percussion CMS.
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Scalability
HubSpot
Because it aligns with our goals and streamlined all the hubspot at one place.
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Percussion Software
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
HubSpot
  • When I was using it I couldn't see the direct return on investment since I was only seeing web development.
  • Practicality when creating articles and content
  • Efficiency when creating landing pages, basically content and interactions, but no return on investment in money.
  • Cuando lo estuve usando no pude ver el retorno de inversión directa ya que solo veía desarrollo web
  • Practicidad al momento de crear artículos y contenido
  • Eficiencia al momento de crear landings, basicamente contenido e interacciones pero no retorno de inversion en dinero
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Percussion Software
  • We are locked into Percussion CMS simply due to the expense and complexity of migrating to another solution (and the lack of time and budget to do so). I long for the day when I am no longer required to support Percussion CMS, to say the least.
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