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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Plone

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlone 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

    SAP Engagement Cloud

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Engagement Cloud (formerly SAP Emarsys) helps organizations power unique customer engagement experiences by connecting real-time customer insights with the operational signals that run the business.N/A
    Pricing
    PloneSAP Engagement Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    PloneSAP Engagement Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Community Pulse
    PloneSAP Engagement Cloud
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    Plone
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    PloneSAP Engagement Cloud
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Plone and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Plone and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    25% above category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    7.0
    7 Ratings
    9% below category average
    API10.05 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings6.07 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Plone and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    Plone
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    18% above category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Plone and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    Plone
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    22% above category average
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Plone and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    Plone
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    6.5
    8 Ratings
    18% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings4.07 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.07 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings6.38 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings4.38 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Plone and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    Plone
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    6.5
    5 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Plone and SAP Engagement Cloud
    Feature
    Plone
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Engagement Cloud
    6.9
    8 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.78 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.07 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    PloneSAP Engagement Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PloneSAP Engagement Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    PloneSAP Engagement Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SAP
    Emarsys is well suited for any company with an established list of contacts and an interest in email marketing. It's easy to manage, scalable, and has plenty of customization features to make your emails your own. If you're ever stuck, the responsive customer service team will help you out. I recommend Emarsys for medium to large size companies.
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    Pros
    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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    SAP
    • It has the ability to reach maximum market chains.
    • It helps to keep our customer’s data confidential in any means.
    • It encourages one-to-one customer engagement which has helped us developing more trust in our customers.
    • It is targeting the required and interested audience for the organization.
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    Cons
    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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    SAP
    • The email and content builder is significantly worse than other email marketing platforms I've used
    • Emails campaigns cannot be used in more than one automation flow
    • Amount of emails collected and being sent for smart insight are inaccurate
    • I've rarely completed a task without some type of user interface error
    • Customer service mostly directs you to help center on website
    • You have to pay extra for training
    • You have to pay extra for reporting in which the system cannot provide
    • Lengthy contract with a high price tag
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Plone
    We have critical systems running on Plone so will need it in the future.
    Free to use since its Open source, so we don't have to worry about licence costs.
    We know how to use and develop Plone and it has no limits.
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    SAP
    We have no intention of changing Emarsys
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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.
    The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Plone
    Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
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    SAP
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    Performance
    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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    SAP
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    Support Rating
    Plone
    There are not too many Plone companies in the world. But the ones who are, are high level professionals
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Plone
    I have been participating Plone training and the trainers have always been professional. Materials were good and the instructions clear
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    SAP
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    Online Training
    Plone
    Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SAP
    Emarsys is the email specialist service giver for our whole association. We use it to send custom and mass messages to our clients across three distinct business divisions. Email advertising is one of our greatest income driving channels due to focusing on limitations from deals regions. We can arrive at our clients through email with pertinent data and advancements, all driving income for the business. I have not used any other product marketing automation services.
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    Scalability
    Plone
    Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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    SAP
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    Return on Investment
    Plone
    • The impact Plone has had at the University of Oshkosh is as follows: this software allows student workers to learn about IT departments and CMS's in a user-friendly way. It gives many students great jobs that look great on their resumes.
    • Since there are great training manuals for Plone, there is increased employee efficient in the workplace. Training doesn't take long, and if there's ever a question, the Plone manual is a great tool to refer to.
    • If an employee using Plone quits, its easy to find someone to replace them with quick training and great resources.
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    SAP
    • From proficient and fast information assortment and converging to changing crude data into significant experiences, Emarsys gives you an answer that allows you to associate with your clients at an extremely close to home level and utilize that to additionally develop your business.
    • Reliable and giving cost effective services.
    Incentivized
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