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Optimizely Content Management System

Overview

What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

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Recent Reviews

Optimizing for Success

9 out of 10
November 10, 2023
Incentivized
We manage our college website and market our programs to prospective students using Optimizely CMS to ensure that all information is …
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A Solid CMS Platform

8 out of 10
October 16, 2023
Incentivized
We use the ptimizely Content Management System to manage content on our B2B website. The product enables us to quickly and consistently …
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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Publishing workflow (125)
    8.1
    81%
  • Page templates (126)
    8.0
    80%
  • Admin section (126)
    7.9
    79%
  • WYSIWYG editor (128)
    7.7
    77%

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Video Reviews

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Pricing

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What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.optimizely.com/plans/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Introduction to Optimizely Content Management System

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.5
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8.1
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.6
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.6
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Its tools let marketers build channel-specific experiences in a few clicks (no coding needed), while Optimizely's GraphQL service enables content delivery from anywhere, to anywhere, to meet customers where they are.

Brand-approved content can be stored and organized for easy reuse with Optimizely's fully-integrated DAM, and data-driven personalization with AI-guided insights can be applied to deliver consistent, on-brand content that's optimized for individuals, in real-time.

Optimizely Content Management System Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication
  • Supported: User-level audit trail
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework Features

  • Supported: .NET

Optimizely Content Management System Screenshots

Screenshot of SaaS CMS edit view: A drag-and-drop UI authoring and on-page editing lets marketers and content creators build content experiences.Screenshot of Content delivery: Developers can use modern GraphQL and REST APIs to query content from any source and send it to any channel or device.Screenshot of Screenshot of DAMConnector: The fully featured Optimizely Digital Asset Management can connect to Optimizely CMS to serve as the single source of truth for brand assets.

Optimizely Content Management System Integrations

Optimizely Content Management System Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Sitecore Experience Manager, Adobe Experience Manager, and Acquia Digital Experience Platform are common alternatives for Optimizely Content Management System.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Optimizely Content Management System are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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October 13, 2023

Opticon 2023 Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User Experience
  • Extensibility of PaaS Core
  • Integration with Digital Asset Management
  • Role based permissions
  • Workflow integration, specifically the previewing functionality
October 12, 2023

Dependable CMS

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Extensibility
  • Performance
  • Ease of use
  • In my opinion, the interface feels dated in some areas
  • In my opinion, it's Slow to enter headless space and not many customer examples
  • Support challenges at times getting resolution to issues
  • In my experience, there have been some nasty bugs in recent releases
October 12, 2023

Keeper!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Template and block customization
  • Rendering according to our design system
  • Content audit reporting
  • workflows a limited
  • block publishing if shared
  • DNS management for complex enterprise domain hosting (some part of our www. going to Optimizely Content Management System but not all)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Personalized Content
  • Able to integrate with most other innovative tools
  • Authoring workflows are great to review the contents are different level and approve before it goes live
  • The website is highly performant
  • Geographic visitor groups: It would be really nice to see if they could use another tool for this which does not use the space on our DXP hosting
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy site management with quick turnarounds on updating and publishing content
  • Adding digital assets and organizing them for quick and easy access
  • The search functionality is much better than we had before, allowing us to find search terms that are frequently used, and others that aren't delivering the right results, allowing us to prepare for those search terms.
  • Training videos could be helpful for all the tools that I have available to me. I love the potential of them all, but I worry I don't understand how to fully take advantage of all the capabilities there.
  • Some tools feel more buried than others, making it hard to get the most out of the CMS.
  • I wish I had some more developer tools so I could make quick and easy fixes rather than reaching out to our developers to do it for me. I have skills in that area, and I feel like I can't take advantage of them anymore.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Well laid out UI and intuitive UX
  • Ability to easily select and deselect specific content or rules
  • Ability to see what you changed and review before publishing
  • Would like better mass change tools
  • For a novice user, having "everything" available can be overwhelming vs. giving the user a "recommended" set of things to manage and then opting in and enhancing as they learn and can do more.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ability to manage users in the environment
  • Allow inheritance models
  • Flexible implementation options
  • Able to separate our presentation layer from underlying APIs built separately
  • In my opinion, the interface is dated (we're implemented on version 11)
  • In my opinion, upgrade path to version 12 is unclear
  • Hosting costs are high
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Centralized web management functions
  • access control and permissions
  • Built in Commerce system
  • Integration with acquired companies is rough
  • Explaination of product capability map to purchaseable items (intentially?) unclear
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Scheduling content to be published
  • Blocks provide flexibility
  • SEO and tagging options
  • The blocks have limitations with the vendor build
  • Complications with rolling out to the organization to manage their pages because of complexity
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