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Percussion CMS vs. Strapi

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Percussion CMS
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Percussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content.N/A
Strapi
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Strapi is an open-source software platform that helps developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs.N/A
Pricing
Percussion CMSStrapi
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Percussion CMSStrapi
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Percussion CMSStrapi
Top Pros
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Features
Percussion CMSStrapi
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Percussion CMS
3.0
1 Ratings
91% below category average
Strapi
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Role-based user permissions3.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Percussion CMS
3.0
1 Ratings
87% below category average
Strapi
9.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
WYSIWYG editor6.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section2.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Page templates1.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Percussion CMS
1.6
1 Ratings
128% below category average
Strapi
8.7
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Content taxonomy1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support1.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Bulk management3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions1.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Community / comment management2.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Percussion CMS
1.0
1 Ratings
154% below category average
Strapi
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
Internationalization / multi-language1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
API00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Percussion CMSStrapi
Likelihood to Recommend
2.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Percussion CMSStrapi
Likelihood to Recommend
Percussion Software
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
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Strapi
1. If a headless CMS is needed. 2. Need the cms UI to be clean. 3. There is a need for customization options in the UI and API as well. 4. Expertise in javascript and need cms with node js backend. 5. Want auth APIs pre-made. 6. Easy to customize the backend as well. 7. The user interface can be fully customizable.
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Pros
Percussion Software
  • Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security
  • Highly scalable
  • Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc..
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Strapi
  • Free and open source.
  • CMS UI is nice and clean.
  • Customization options.
  • Regular updates and bug fixes.
  • Easy to find and understand docs.
  • Blogs available to learn more.
  • Plugin eco system.
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Cons
Percussion Software
  • 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.
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Strapi
  • Tutorial videos.
  • Use typescript for it's backend.
  • Detailed explanation of commands available.
  • More clear docs for releasing.
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Alternatives Considered
Percussion Software
No contest. I can't wait to get off of Percussion CMS.
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Strapi
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Return on Investment
Percussion Software
  • 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.
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Strapi
  • Easy to setup.
  • Customize the ui.
  • Increased productivity.
  • Get prebuilt auth apis.
  • Customize the backend and add new apis.
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