Likelihood to Recommend OpenText TeamSite is well-suited to large, enterprise-wide implementations where customization, content governance, and dynamic content distribution is needed or prioritized. It is probably not ideal for smaller sites with simple architecture and few resources to manage custom implementation.
Tyler Vogel Manager, Digital Projects and Web Operations
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros The drag and drop forms feature makes publishing simple and quick. Preview of customer data before sending publications helps us to deliver personalized experiences. Read full review 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. Read full review Cons I have recommendation for improvements. It is easy to work with all the features. All necessary content management tools are included. Read full review 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). Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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.
Read full review Usability Overall, it's a solid package with the potential to offer much functionality with appropriate resources applied. There are a few issues with the authoring interface that OpenText should address before its a top shelf authoring experience.
Tyler Vogel Manager, Digital Projects and Web Operations
Read full review 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
Read full review Performance 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.
Read full review Support Rating Our technical resources engage with OpenText TeamSite so I don't have direct experience. However, critical issues that we need help with seem to get the attention they deserve without issue. However, training and user resources for business owner roles are a bit lacking and some annoying issues with the authoring interface should be addressed sooner.
Tyler Vogel Manager, Digital Projects and Web Operations
Read full review Alternatives Considered It offers more content editing features at a relatively low cost thus overall deployment is lower in cost. It has great customer support who are always there to support and answer to our needs thus making the process of deployment seamless at every stage and offering training for working with their product.
Read full review 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
Read full review Contract Terms and Pricing Model The annual contract should be clearer in terms of the breakdown of user license types (system admin, admin, regular user, etc).
Tyler Vogel Manager, Digital Projects and Web Operations
Read full review Return on Investment We integrated with google analytics, now we have the proper comprehension of our audience data reception and behaviors - we've greatly improved on personalized marketing. Quick publication of content across the main digital channels. We run our digital campaigns swiftly. We've maintained our brand consistency for three years. Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots