TrustRadius Insights for CoreMedia are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Seamless Integration: Users have praised the software for its ability to seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure and software applications, including ActiveDirectory authentication, Solr search engine, Java/Spring, and Oracle. This has been mentioned by multiple reviewers.
Flexible Content Publishing Workflows: Reviewers appreciate the flexibility of the software in terms of content publishing workflows. They mention that different workflows can be set up based on user roles, allowing for efficient management of both managed and unmanaged content production. Several users have highlighted this feature.
Customizable Templating System: The customizable templating system of the software has been highly appreciated by users. They mention that developers can easily tailor content and presentation without worrying about performance. This flexibility allows for a personalized and unique look and feel for each site, as stated by multiple reviewers.
CoreMedia is the content application for the marketing pieces of our sites. I've used this now on 2 installations. It is quick, flexible, easily understood by my colleagues - and since I am responsible for training in the Americas, this is a huge plus. I've even successfully trained colleagues in Asia via screen sharing with great success.
Pros
Shows what you're going to see immediately in a side-by-side screen.
Allows for easy standardization of content look/feel.
Permissions are easy to maintain.
Cons
Early learning within the company was slow.
We elected a customized version of CoreMedia - which in the end may not have been the best decision.
Likelihood to Recommend
Localization of content is SUPER easy (and we're a global company, so this is quite important)!
We use CoreMedia to manage our main website. We have approximately 200 contributors internally who use the system to build, manage, and maintain subsites.
Pros
CoreMedia is a robust system that can manage large sites with multiple, well-organized subsites.
CoreMedia has a built-in workflow system that functions well for a distributed contributor model.
Cons
CoreMedia, although robust, is also complex. It is not easy to teach or learn, especially when a contributor is not in the system on a daily basis.
The user interface is built with developers in mind, but not with contributors in mind. It is hard to navigate and not easy to learn or remember.
Some of the terms are confusing. With the translation from German to English, not everything was translated well for an English-based American user base and it is easy to get confused whether one is, for example, marking something for deletion or actually deleting something.
Likelihood to Recommend
CoreMedia would be great for a very large website handled by very astute developers, who are also editors. Unfortunately, developers and editors are not usually the same people, thus CoreMedia is ill-suited for our company and companies like ours.
CoreMedia was used at my previous organization to update the website for the entire organization. I used it specifically for two departments and edited many subpages. It helped to streamline the web development process and helped keep formatting consistent across the board.
Pros
Easy to use for beginners, because the software is straightforward and easy to learn.
The input to output is consistent - when editing for a webpage, you know what to expect.
The program helps streamline the web development process and works to achieve fast, consistent results.
Cons
Every so often, there would be issues with HTML, that were occasionally difficult to troubleshoot.
Suggest having a preview feature that would show exactly what the website will look like after changes are implemented.
Add direct social media feature.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think that CoreMedia is well-suited for a big organization because many staff members can use it at once and, with IT staff, can have a very convenient, consistent system. It may be less appropriate for a small organization where only one or two people are managing web development and don't need as vast or complex of a system.
VU
Verified User
Administrative Assistant in Research & Development (201-500 employees)
CoreMedia is used across the organization. Governance is done centrally by the Communications Department while content creation is done by 100+ users across all departments. Product implementation is done by software engineers in IT and by web developers in Electronic Communications. CoreMedia is used to deliver our content-driven public website, a peer-reviewed publications site, and a career advising content application.
Pros
Integrates well with existing infrastructure and software applications. We leveraged ActiveDirectory authentication, a Solr search engine, Java/Spring, Oracle, and other technologies.
Allows for multiple workflows for content publishing based on user roles. Each of our sites has separate workflows and allow for managed and unmanaged content production.
Templating system is extremely customizable without being unmanageable. This allows developers to custom tailor content and presentation without worry about performance.
Cons
Some technical concepts require quite a bit of learning. There is very good training and documentation available, but you will need a strong team of developers to leverage all the features of CoreMedia.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think this CMS is best suited as an enterprise level system. For small, or simple sites, there are better options, but for large high-traffic sites, this is a great CMS.
I work for an advertising agency. We use Core Media to source traffic for our spots, input media buys, to update reports on our clients, to track our post logs in conjunction with Sigma, for addresses and plenty of other tasks for our clients. It is used by our media and media operations department. It helps keep things organized and to track our TV campaigns with our clients.
Pros
Gives us a detailed report as to what has aired versus what was bought.
Helps keep track of our buys.
Able to source out traffic through Core which is helpful.
Cons
It isn't as smart as it could be.
Needs to pick up more mistakes.
Likelihood to Recommend
It seems we have to input a lot of work to generate reports that a computer system should be able to do for us. However, it is very well suited to keep track of things but can be very sensitive when it comes to adding buys and what not. Automatically inputs numbers when I tab over that shouldn't be there and doesn't pick up numbers that should (such as when inputting post logs) which can be quite annoying.
CoreMedia is being used at our Association to manage content for our website. We have a central team within Communications that manages the publishing and day-to-day use or CoreMedia, but staff across all departments at our organization contribute content and work within CoreMedia. It allows individual content owners and contributors to submit their content as they would like it/or need it to appear on their program/initiative page.
Pros
Allows many staff members to contribute content to various portions of our website, and allows our Electronic-Communications staff to delegate tasks to these various staff (diffusing the work-load).
CoreMedia allows for easy creation of different types of content (like teasers, articles, download objects, links, etc). Permission levels can be set, so only certain staff can upload content such as photos, videos, or audio files.
The CoreMedia workflow process is easy to understand and follow. Once a staff member has submitted content for publishing to the web, they can then see who it's been assigned to for review, and at what time. You're able to leave detailed notes and stay abreast of where the workflow is at any given time.
Cons
Where content lives within CoreMedia can often be confusing (i.e. you have created an article, but are linking to content in another folder that might be completely unrelated). Navigating to and from different content folders can be frustrating and often confusing on where the content "lives" versus where it is posted on the website.
Formatting is CoreMedia is less than desirable. You have minimal options for headings and other formatting options, resulting in a dull, or boring website. Several of the formatting functions don't work across different browsers, for example, bullet points.
Because some users are granted different permissions levels, staff often have to wait in order for an admin user to assist with certain aspects of their workflow. There should be a button, or option to submit an urgent request on an item from within CoreMedia, rather than having to email colleagues via Outlook. Additionally, there could be an added level of permissions for basic users, more advanced users, and then the admins of the system who ultimately publish content.
Likelihood to Recommend
For websites with many individual pages, CoreMedia can certainly get out of hand very quickly. Our Association's website has over 30,000 pages, which is too many, but managing those in CoreMedia is quick difficult. The search function isn't always very helpful, and the system itself is not automatic or intuitive to help you in keeping content current. Questions to ask might be: how many people will I have using this product? Who will ultimately be in charge of publishing content? Do you have set web standards to share with staff to allow for the delegation of tasks/content contributions?
