Oracle WebCenter Sites vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle WebCenter Sites
Score 5.5 out of 10
N/A
Oracle WebCenter Sites is the new name for FatWire which Oracle acquired in 2011. It is a complete CMS often bundled with other Oracle WebCenter products to present a more comprehensive management solution for businesses and enterprises.N/A
WordPress VIP
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
Oracle WebCenter SitesWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle WebCenter SitesWordPress VIP
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Oracle WebCenter SitesWordPress VIP
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Oracle WebCenter SitesWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle WebCenter Sites
7.0
4 Ratings
14% below category average
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.04 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Oracle WebCenter Sites
5.5
4 Ratings
33% below category average
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
2% below category average
API5.03 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language6.03 Ratings5.92 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Oracle WebCenter Sites
6.8
5 Ratings
11% below category average
WordPress VIP
8.2
2 Ratings
8% above category average
WYSIWYG editor8.04 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.03 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Admin section8.04 Ratings8.32 Ratings
Page templates6.04 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Library of website themes7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design3.04 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Publishing workflow6.04 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Form generator8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle WebCenter Sites
6.2
4 Ratings
17% below category average
WordPress VIP
8.0
2 Ratings
9% above category average
Content taxonomy7.04 Ratings7.31 Ratings
SEO support7.03 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Bulk management6.04 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions4.03 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Community / comment management7.03 Ratings9.12 Ratings
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Oracle WebCenter SitesWordPress VIP
Small Businesses
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Image Relay
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Oracle WebCenter SitesWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
5.9
(8 ratings)
8.6
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
4.3
(3 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(19 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle WebCenter SitesWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
Oracle WebCenter Sites is very well suited to presenting marketing content in all shapes and forms, including mobile, an in a corporate web site. Oracle WebCenter Sites can also manage small product catalogs easily. Important things to consider when selecting a CMS:
  • How important is the ease with which my business users update content?
  • How often are updates made?
  • How distributed are my business contributors?
  • How important is preview in my organization's workflow and publishing process?
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Automattic
WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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Pros
Oracle
  • Easy-to-use content authoring and design tools for business users.
  • Segmentation based on implicit (behavioral) or explicit (known user or characteristics) criteria or a combination of the two.
  • Flexible rules engine for creation of customer segments and recommendations, enabling delivery of targeted content and campaigns.
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Automattic
  • Security - class leading security, ensuring sites are protected and operate hassle free
  • Scalability - provide patches and updates first before the market place
  • Reliability - up to 99.9% up time, with a fantastic track record
  • Performance - hitting the high notes for Core Web Vitals and ensuring WordPress is operating at its peak performance
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Cons
Oracle
  • Creating new content is not so easy
  • Publishing is not trivial
  • In my opinion documentation is weak
  • I think there are cheaper solutions then WCS
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Automattic
  • Too many different dashboard formats
  • Everything should have the same look and feel.
  • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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Likelihood to Renew
Oracle
A valuable tool for enabling marketers and business users to easily create and manage contextually relevant social and interactive online experiences across multiple channels on a global scale to drive sales and loyalty. It also allows multi-site management (in fact Sites) using the assets and template developed, without having to re-implement again for each individual site.
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Automattic
It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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Usability
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Automattic
There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
Oracle
The WebCenter Sites Support team is extremely good and very responsive to client needs. They are quick to resolve Level 1 issues and when escalated to Level 2, the team makes every effort to keep the client informed.
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Automattic
The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
There are lot of WCM products available in the market, some free and some licensed. But for a organisation using more Oracle products and on Java technology, WCS is the best in class, for intranet and internet needs. It has everything which is required for a web application. Also it can be well integrated with other platforms with Oracle Document Cloud/Oracle Content/Oracle Identity Manager and a lot more. Its a well integrated product. It can also be integrated with social media using a community plugin. It also comes with its own search and analytics tools. The templates are pure JSP and can be easily coded by Java developers using the development guide. Its based on Java, so writing custom applications and integrating is easy
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Automattic
Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • It has alleviated some of the burden on our IT staff.
  • It has allowed our Marketing department to be more hands-on with content changes, and they have more flexibility with the types of changes and how often they make them.
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Automattic
  • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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