OpenText Content Suite Platform vs. Plone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Content Suite Platform
Score 7.6 out of 10
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The OpenText Content Suite Platform oversees the lifecycle management of information across the enterprise from capture through archiving and disposition. With agile information governance to address the latest data governance and data privacy best practices, the vendor states their Content Suite reduces risk and empowers organizations to focus on using information to drive strategic growth and productivity.N/A
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
OpenText Content Suite PlatformPlone
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText Content Suite PlatformPlone
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
OpenText Content Suite PlatformPlone
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Content Suite Platform
7.7
6 Ratings
7% below category average
Plone
-
Ratings
Content capture & imaging9.36 Ratings00 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Document management9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Records management8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Content publishing & creation4.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance6.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflows7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Artificial intelligence4.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support4.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Content Suite Platform
-
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
OpenText Content Suite Platform
-
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
OpenText Content Suite Platform
-
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
OpenText Content Suite Platform
-
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
OpenText Content Suite PlatformPlone
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(8 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText Content Suite PlatformPlone
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenText
Great for content management and records even for organizations whose staff are not much experienced in the technical backgrounds as it's easy to use and no previous knowledge on HTML is required. It is great for storing invoices and payment proofs and for organizations dealing with global clients for general use documents.
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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
OpenText
  • Document Management is being done well since it allows you to put in a corporate folder structure that applies to the business unit you currently work in.
  • Records Management works well in this organisation as it allows you to classify the document according to the file plan, as well as manage it according to the retention schedule for tat file plan.
  • The ability to collaborate on files works really well. You can share with users within your group, as well as allow other users access to the files for either read access to read/write access.
  • Access control of the folder and even individual files allows you to ensure only necessary people can have the right type of access. This is especially welcome in the government environment where document management is of utmost importance.
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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
OpenText
  • The user interface and configurability of that interface lack a lot of flexibility and modern tools.
  • There needs to be stronger and more powerful integration to electronic forms and workflow capabilities which are core to modern ECM.
  • Management of audit and content history needs to be modernized and made more dynamic and sustainable.
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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
OpenText
The staff is comfortable with it and I doubt they'd change at this point.
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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
OpenText
The interface is easy to understand and learn quickly.
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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
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Reliability and Availability
OpenText
I never had any issues with access internally or via VPN. But, the response via VPN, was a bit slow.
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Plone
No answers on this topic
Performance
OpenText
  • I used OpenText nearly every day and I never had any performance issues that I can recall. That said, it's not terribly fast either.
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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
OpenText
OpenText has an outstanding support and knowledge base. All problems which couldn't be solved by us (high complexity cases) were promptly resolved and the resolution also shared with us.
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Plone
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
OpenText
No, it's pretty easy to implement and use.
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Plone
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
OpenText
Having used OpenText Content Suite for a long time, I can say it stands the competition. It offers many versions which is unlike many products in its category. Also, while it is not affordable, I believe the cost is justified considering what a business can achieve with this software.
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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
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Return on Investment
OpenText
  • With OpenText Content Suite, we can easily keep documents safe
  • Document collaboration is easy with OpenText
  • We can easily handle invoicing and automation thanks to features such as content capture and imaging.
  • With OpenText Content Suite, there is better file sync and archiving
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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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