Jahia is a Java-based enterprise content management system. It features an integrated user portal, web publishing and content management, document management, collaboration, and multi-channel publishing.
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Optimizely Content Management System
Score 8.4 out of 10
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The Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) helps users to deliver exceptional digital experiences across channels & devices. It boasts a marketer-friendly interface, AI-generated insights that support real-time personalization, and flexible content delivery options—including true headless delivery. The Optimizely CMS can be integrated with Optimizely Content Marketing Platform, Optimizely Digital Asset Management, and Optimizely Data Platform, to support the entire content…
In my experience, Jahia Digital Experience Platform as a CMS platform is excellent when you have a large amount of content that needs to be customized. It is also good for when you have templated content that has minor variations. I would say it is less appropriate when the content has numerous mathematical computations, or a large amount of business logic that comes into play with data processing.
I'd say Optimizely CMS is best used at medium to large organizations with a lot of content and resources. Smaller businesses could have a lot of use of the basic product but with the price tag (not only for licences but also in development) I usually find smaller clients turning to cheaper alternatives.
A centralized UI to maintain multiple websites using a common entry point.
Page types and blocks that can be highly customized using .NET code, but at the same time allows checks and validations when being created by Marketing/Content Users.
A very good set of extra libraries/add-ons that allows to expand website functionality in a very short period of time (Content APIs, Personalization, A/B Testing, Social)
It lacks the ability to manage multiple versions of a page or content in general.
The back office interface sometimes encounters bugs or display problems.
It's difficult to keep pre-production sites up to date in terms of content compared to production, because the time required to import/export sites is very long once the site is rich in content.
Optimizely Content Management System recently started moving features into internal namespaces, making it harder to provide custom implementations. Customization being one of the key benefits of using Optimizely Content Management System, this approach tends to be going in the opposite direction. I would love to see some of those features be added back to public APIs.
Some topics either lack documentation or have outdated documentation. Updates on those would definitely be helpful.
I would not use Jahia as it proved too complex for our needs and didn't help our over goal of customer satisfaction. Along with the man hours to build and execute, it wasn't worth the hassle
Since I work on the implementation side of things, and do not directly own licensing for Ektron CMS, I have to base this rating off of how I think it will be received or presented to customers looking to start a new site deployment. I try to remain CMS agnostic, though my specialty is with the .NET and Microsoft stack. Because of the experience I have working with Ektron, I tend to be more forgiving with the shortcomings as I am familiar with how to work around them or past them from experience. Being familiar with the community available also helps, as you become familiar with the best approaches to find solutions to your issues. Each product has it's ups and downs and all of them are only going to be as good as the company or development team implementing them can make them. This is EXTREMELY important to remember when choosing a CMS, as it can make or break your expensive investment.
The interface and ergonomics are designed to facilitate the use of the product. The creation of template is easy which allows to minimize the actions necessary for the provision of content.
The Opti CMS is pretty easy to use once you get used to it. Setting up the experience editor takes some time and difficult to follow and do in a group setting. We found working one on one or in smaller groups works better
[I give it this rating because it] was up most of the time. There are so many scheduled reboots that I don't think it would be a good choice for a 95% SLA.
As I was saying, the support makes sure to be available for any question, or any technical point that we may need to discuss about. Moreover, whenever we have an issue with the platform they get alerted and also send us an email so that we are aware. We had multiple complex topics to work on in the past, but they always have been answering our question
I attended multiple trainings/tutorials early in the process. The vendor-supplied content about Optimizely was engaging for users/attendees (I often analyze training content, compliance programs, governance plans), which helps our OCM people by having good "word of mouth" about the product long before a rollout ever happens. I actually when the user-focused portion of the Optimizely Academy twice in 2022 to ensure I had a grasp on operability and to be able to support the training and OCM efforts
Ektron is one of the best solution for .Net platform. Over the years have improved the performance issues that the previous versions had. My only complain is right now you can't do Page builder pages if you choose to have a MVC architecture
Jahia provides a similar user experience to other CMS I have used in the past - it features a simple interface that makes navigating and learning how to use the platform easy and the ability to copy and paste content saves time and effort when building new pages. The ease in which you can manage the site in different languages is also a big plus!
Magento fell off the list in an early stage because we didn't need a webshop functionality. We needed a "content/marketing platform. In regard to Sitecore I concluded that handling multiple websites in multiple languages was less flexible and a bit more complex in this matter. Together with our partner, the decision was made for EPI/Optimizely. In this matter my previous experience with EPI/Optimizely was good as well. But, I have to make the remark that the EPI/Optimizely system is great but if it is implemented wrong (basic idea behind building/set-up and design of the website) it will never work, with any system. So think before you do, the basis of the website is extremely important.
