Likelihood to Recommend Best suited for large organizations where everyone knows how to deal with Java in an increasingly Java unfriendly world. Said organization should be willing to pay a huge price for a piece of dinosaur technology
Read full review As already mentioned, migrating websites from Adobe Business Catalyst, or any other platform is a strength. Using the Siteglide CLI, websites can be migrated as a static site to Siteglide, thus greatly reducing the amount of work necessary for the migration. Also, as long as developers are acquainted with HTML, CSS, Liquid, and Javascript, building sites with Siteglide can be done rapidly using their Siteglide Studio site builder. One of the additional strengths of Siteglide is Webapps. These can be easily used to provide the display and manipulation of dynamic data. The site can be designed so that users can change information without knowing anything about the underlying code. It allows a form-driven way to update site pages.
Read full review Pros Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security Highly scalable Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc.. Read full review Webapps Members Zones Data access Read full review Cons One word: JAVA! We don't live in the 1990's anymore! An AJAX/DHTML environment seems a long time coming. Horrible end-user experience, learning curve. Our end users' inability to easily use the archaic, Java-based interface, means they send the web developer their content requests. This creates a huge bottleneck and completely defeats the purpose of a CMS. Image mangement and integration with content is aweful and time consuming. An image processing tool called ImedImage was developed for Percussion at one point, and left completely stagnant with very little support. Implementation is extremely complicated, given the complexity of the system. Sure, scalability is a good thing, but there is very little out-of-the box function. Don't expect to implement a site as quickly as with other CMS platforms. Read full review Some features are still under development Billing plans occasionally cost more than competition, mainly because of the way Platform OS works "Drag and Drop" website building and maintenance could be improved in order to compete with other site-builders. Less reliance on knowing HTML, CSS, Liquid, Javascript, etc. would be a good direction to go in the future. Read full review Usability There could be an improvement for "non-programmers" and drag and drop editing. However, Siteglide's target market of website development agencies is well served and a great fit. Sites can be migrated from other platforms quickly and easily. New responsive websites can be developed quickly using Siteglide Studio and then robust functionality can be built out quickly and reliably. There is a wide range of features included in Siteglide and more features and upgrades are being rapidly added. The environment is built on a stable and performance-oriented platform. This allows agencies to provide excellent service on a worldwide basis.
Read full review Support Rating Very responsive and a great system in place to facilitate communication.
Read full review Alternatives Considered No contest. I can't wait to get off of Percussion CMS.
Read full review Siteglide knocks the socks off
Duda in terms functionality, it's eCommerce isn't a match for
Shopify (yet) but it's got a lot more flexibility and functionality than
Shopify which comes up short if businesses want to do more than sell products...and versus
WordPress , well, it's just much more professional and doesn't fall on its arse.
Read full review Return on Investment We are locked into Percussion CMS simply due to the expense and complexity of migrating to another solution (and the lack of time and budget to do so). I long for the day when I am no longer required to support Percussion CMS, to say the least. Read full review It allows us to seel complicated sites to customers with lower budgets It's quick to migrate sites to It's cost effective Read full review ScreenShots —