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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 Sustainability Control Tower

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASAP Sustainability Control Tower is a software solution that helps to enable users to reach sustainable business ambitions with holistic enterprise-wide sustainability performance management.N/A
    Pricing
    PloneSAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PloneSAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    PloneSAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Considered Both Products
    Plone
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    71%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    56%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    PloneSAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Plone and SAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Feature
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    SAP Sustainability Control Tower
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Plone and SAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Feature
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    25% above category average
    SAP Sustainability Control Tower
    -
    Ratings
    API10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Plone and SAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Feature
    Plone
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    18% above category average
    SAP Sustainability Control Tower
    -
    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 Sustainability Control Tower
    Feature
    Plone
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    22% above category average
    SAP Sustainability Control Tower
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    PloneSAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    PloneSAP Sustainability Control Tower
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.4
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PloneSAP Sustainability Control Tower
    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
    It is basically the easiest choice for people who are already running SAP ECC or S4 as their ERP as that means they can get all of the data sources automatically without mapping efforts. That compensates for some of the shortcomings mentioned earlier, and to be fair, tools from other vendors (e.g., Microsoft) have the same problem anyway.
    Incentivized
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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
    • Gather and organize company data
    • Calculate sustainability metrics
    • Report metrics/indicators according to mandatory or voluntary sustainability standards
    • Customize it to the clients needs and operations
    Incentivized
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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
    • Implementing Custom Metrics: Support for all DPI dimensions needed
    • Drill-Down Requirements: Full dimension availability via OData API
    • Row Limit Issue: Request limit inadequate for data volume
    • Breakdown by all dimensions for metrics not feasible
    Incentivized
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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 are currently too new with The SAP sustainability Control tower ,but down the line if we see more benefits to financial sustain the product and product is actually paying off the cost from the benefits we get out of it we may renew the use of SAP sustainability control tower.
    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
    SAP Sustainability Control Tower allows for a dashboard of production controls for sales materials. Different departments within the company can access real-time production and business information. It is suitable for various EU certifications. Also for organizations in the US and Latin America
    Incentivized
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    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
    never faced a downtime - or any error for the features I use.
    Incentivized
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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
    yes never faced any sort of buffering or user interface issues.
    Incentivized
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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
    not contacted support for SAP Sustainability Control Tower yet.
    Incentivized
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    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
    i did online training no in person training
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Plone
    Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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    SAP
    online module was extensive and helpful to understand the functionality
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Plone
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    No, I was not directly involved in SAP Sustainability Control Tower implementation, but before implementing feedback was taken from procurement team for several function usage.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    Same lack of industry-specific content on both, but SAP has the main advantage of direct connection to the ERP data so it saves significant efforts in comparison. Regarding dashboards look and feel and so on, it is more a matter of personal preference between PowerBi and SAP, we personally prefer SAP as it is a bit richer in ability to bring in more data and filter on it.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Plone
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    no i was not involved in Sales process
    Incentivized
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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
    yes we deployed it across multiple departments like SHS, purchasing, regulatory and we believe we can add more features of SAP sustainability control tower.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Plone
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    SAP team is always great in service - i was not involved Sales process
    Incentivized
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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
    • Greater transparency around our sust strategies
    • More engaged workforce
    • Reduce OpEx by $350k in first month due to better decision in a particular area
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Sustainability Control Tower Screenshots

    Screenshot of reporting scope details.Screenshot of data collection items.Screenshot of emissions data.Screenshot of a carbon footprint assessment.Screenshot of sustainability metrics.