Image Relay vs. Joomla!

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Image Relay Marketing Delivery keeps digital assets and product information in one place with the goal of supporting fast, seamless creation and delivery.N/A
Joomla
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A
Pricing
Image RelayJoomla!
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Image RelayJoomla
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Image RelayJoomla!
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Image Relay
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Ratings
Joomla!
7.0
44 Ratings
14% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.044 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Image Relay
-
Ratings
Joomla!
6.5
41 Ratings
17% below category average
API00 Ratings7.039 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.140 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Image Relay
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Ratings
Joomla!
7.2
47 Ratings
5% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings6.046 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.044 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.443 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.045 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings9.043 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.043 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings6.143 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings6.039 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Image Relay
-
Ratings
Joomla!
6.6
45 Ratings
11% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings8.044 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.044 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings4.142 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.045 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings6.143 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Image RelayJoomla!
Small Businesses
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge
Score 8.8 out of 10
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Image RelayJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(28 ratings)
6.1
(68 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(2 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(28 ratings)
9.9
(7 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(28 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Image RelayJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
Image Relay
Image Relay is intelligently designed for any marketer, especially if your products require a library of images and video and especially if you feel like your team could use some quality onboarding to make sure everything is set up right and to make sure your team is equipped to use the software effectively. Specifically speaking, since we have so many products and we're building a bigger direct relationship with customers, it was important that we have an easy way to store and access assets that can represent those products and resonate with potential customers. Image Relay also made it really easy to group assets for sharing with influencers and other marketing partners. Dropbox and Google Drive may have their place and their functionalities that set them apart, so it's important to not look at Image Relay like one of those older document services storage spaces — though those companies could learn a lot from how Image Relay helps marketers enrich their assets and store them smartly.
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The Joomla Project
It seems with the release of Joomla! 4 that the weak areas have all been covered. Its always been good for the mid-level small to large business, the blogging was WP, and the large-scale enterprise was probably bespoke. But the new interface is so simple it seems pointless using WP when Joomla! is as easy and can then grow as big as you like. The Workflows feature which allows you to set up work pipelines easily is going to be a boom to any larger enterprise sites. Couples with the new API which I got to see at one of their user groups, is amazing. They were creating articles on one site then another site was taking the feed directly for just certain categories. Really blows your mind what you could do with that and the new workflows.
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Pros
Image Relay
  • Enables us to organize a large number of files in an easy-to-use format
  • Keeps our files safe. Much of the work we do is private until our partners approve of our marketing going public so file security is critical to our operation.
  • Image Relay makes it easy for our team to track and access a wide range of files - especially photos and contracts.
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The Joomla Project
  • We use Joomla to build our websites and web applications because of its incredible intuitiveness and tools to make everything more manageable.
  • Its working environment is quite comfortable for my development team, and its web design resources significantly speed up our work when carrying out web development projects.
  • It allows you to use blocks to create and visually manage websites and divide them into different categories without programming knowledge.
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Cons
Image Relay
  • The AI tagging terms are too generic to really be helpful to us.
  • When we did our initial upload the system couldn't pull in old dates, so everything has a date of the day it was uploaded. It will be a while before searching by "most recent" works properly.
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The Joomla Project
  • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
  • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
  • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
  • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
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Likelihood to Renew
Image Relay
I believe once all of our staff see how efficient Image Relay is in managing our digital assets, there will be no question that the cost vs. value will mandate continued use moving forward. It literally will pay for itself in saved staff time, I believe.
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The Joomla Project
I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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Usability
Image Relay
Image Relay is very straightforward. The experience and interface mimic things were all used to using so it makes it very easy to learn and use. They didn't try to reinvent the wheel by making a fancy tool, they just made something that works and does exactly what you need it to do. They also have an awesome team that is quick to help and answer any questions along the way.
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The Joomla Project
Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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Performance
Image Relay
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The Joomla Project
Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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Support Rating
Image Relay
Amazing. We are having a quick call once a week to be sure we are right on track. They answer all our questions right away and if they are missing something they will just find the answer and get back to us as fast as possible. There is no need to look elsewhere!
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The Joomla Project
Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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Online Training
Image Relay
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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Implementation Rating
Image Relay
The Image Relay team was very helpful in guiding us through the process. Excellent customer service and guidance.
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The Joomla Project
Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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Alternatives Considered
Image Relay
We were using our in-house storage NAS system and Backup on DVD and hard drive. The issue is that we lost a lot of data by it either crashing or becoming unreadable. And it's very difficult to organize and share data. To share data we were using WeTransfer, but the issue is that the link expired in 7 days.
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The Joomla Project
We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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Return on Investment
Image Relay
  • Image Relay has only offered positive impacts for me. The search function is great when used properly — our photographers can input tons of metadata that is later used to find certain teams or players within the website.
  • I don't mind having duplicates in the system as long as they are in places they need to be, but Image Relay does tell you when you've uploaded something multiple times which could be helpful to others.
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The Joomla Project
  • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
  • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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