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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Jahia Digital Experience Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AJahia 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.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
    Jahia Digital Experience PlatformPlone
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Jahia Digital Experience PlatformPlone
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Jahia Digital Experience PlatformPlone
    Considered Both Products
    Jahia Solutions
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    Plone
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Jahia Digital Experience PlatformPlone
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Plone
    Feature
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    34 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.034 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Plone
    Feature
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    8.5
    35 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    25% above category average
    API7.93 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.035 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Plone
    Feature
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    6.6
    35 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Plone
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    18% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor9.034 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness1.130 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Admin section8.333 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Page templates8.034 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Library of website themes4.12 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.033 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.033 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Form generator7.026 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Plone
    Feature
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    5.7
    34 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Plone
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy9.03 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    SEO support4.134 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Bulk management6.029 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions4.73 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Community / comment management4.53 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Jahia Digital Experience PlatformPlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (44 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    6.4
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (12 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
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Jahia Digital Experience PlatformPlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Jahia Solutions
    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.
    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
    Jahia Solutions
    • Content management: It is very easy to update text, images, files and videos even for a non technical user.
    • Multi-site Management: It has a robust multi-site management capability, It helps in maintaining multiple websites with consistent branding.
    • Digital asset management: It is easier to store organize and retrieve images, videos and documents.
    • It has a great built-in analytics and reporting feature.
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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
    Jahia Solutions
    • 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.
    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
    Jahia Solutions
    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
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    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
    Jahia Solutions
    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.
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    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
    Jahia Solutions
    [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.
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    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
    Jahia Solutions
    It's stable after upgrade to Jahia 8. Not much server down so far
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    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
    Jahia Solutions
    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
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    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
    Jahia Solutions
    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
    Jahia Solutions
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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    Alternatives Considered
    Jahia Solutions
    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!
    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
    Jahia Solutions
    You can create your own feature module and it can be resuable across the projects. The Java libraries is available for development of Tomcat or JSP
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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    Return on Investment
    Jahia Solutions
    • Our once frustrated contributors are now happy to create content with Jahia Digital Experience Platform!
    • Pages are snappy and bug-free, which wasn't always the case.
    • Jahia Digital Experience Platform has mapped our complex organization into nice roles and permissions.
    • All our external services were nicely integrated into a modern portal.
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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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