JoomlaLMS vs. Plone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
JoomlaLMS
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
JoomlaLMS is a Learning Management System. Some key features include: Multi Language User Interface, User Roles, Course Categories and Course Forums.
$0
per month
Plone
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Plone 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
JoomlaLMSPlone
Editions & Modules
FREE
$0
per month
Standard
$299
Professional
$799
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JoomlaLMSPlone
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
JoomlaLMSPlone
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
JoomlaLMS
-
Ratings
Plone
8.0
5 Ratings
0% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
JoomlaLMS
-
Ratings
Plone
8.5
5 Ratings
10% above category average
API00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
JoomlaLMS
-
Ratings
Plone
8.0
6 Ratings
5% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
JoomlaLMS
-
Ratings
Plone
7.8
5 Ratings
6% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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User Ratings
JoomlaLMSPlone
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
JoomlaLMSPlone
Likelihood to Recommend
JoomlaLMS
Very comfortable and adaptive LMS system for your needs and requirements. JoomlaLMS can be integrated into your eLearning site. If you are willing to adapt these technologies to your company - it can be your best choice. JoomlaLMS contains all necessary features and modules. So in other words its a shrink-wrap system.
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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
JoomlaLMS
  • Wide range of features, can be easily adapted to any industry.
  • Two paid versions of JoomlaLMS are available.
  • Experienced Support department helps to solve any problem with the system.
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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
JoomlaLMS
  • We'd like to see more intuitive design, as it requires some training to learn all the features. So we are looking forward to see it in future releases.
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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
JoomlaLMS
  1. Competitive price
  2. Easy adaptation to any industry
  3. Easy to add new people to database and set up individual settings.
  4. Several modules to extend its functionality, such as the JomSocial plugin.
  5. Wide report features.
  6. Learners Management Roles and settings.
  7. Those who are interested in making money on courses are able to sell subscriptions to courses.
  8. Wide surveys and quizzes opportunities.
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Plone
I no longer use Plone because I got an internship in the web development field and my current place of employment uses their own content management system that they created. After getting to know other CMS's and similar software and comparing them to Plone, I would enjoy using Plone again in the future, but there are more complicated software that I'd like to learn as I progress in my field of study.
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Usability
JoomlaLMS
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
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Performance
JoomlaLMS
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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Alternatives Considered
JoomlaLMS
No answers on this topic
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
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Return on Investment
JoomlaLMS
  • JoomlaLMS helps to train your employees and set up tests. Thereby, it gives the overall expertise to each employee.
  • Price is very competitive in comparison with any other LMS.
  • Friendly and helpful customer support.
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Plone
  • As a development company Plone allows us to provide complex web applications in a short amount of time.
  • Plone is quite robust and reliable so when you customize some parts you do not risk to damage other parts. This is quite positive for a web development framework,
  • Plone allows our clients to spread their activities among different employees improving the efficiency of content generation and management.
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ScreenShots

JoomlaLMS Screenshots

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