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Evoq Content Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.7 out of 10
Score
8.7 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

The software has been widely used by users in the MLM/Network Marketing industry to develop websites for their clients. They appreciate the ability to have full control over the content and appearance of their websites while leaving the management of hardware, programs, SQL Server, and reporting to the software. This allows them to focus on providing a seamless user experience for their clients.

The versatility of the software has made it a popular choice for various use cases. It is commonly utilized as a CMS for clients, personal websites, and blog platforms. Users have also found it valuable as a code base for developing custom intranet CMS solutions with integration into the Microsoft infrastructure. The software excels at managing membership signup processes, activation of members, and overall membership management. Through incorporating modules into websites, users are able to create customized workflows for re-credentialing and document management.

In addition, the software has proven useful in replacing old static websites that required extensive maintenance. Users have leveraged it to build public-facing corporate websites as well as internal intranet sites. The ability for non-IT staff to make content changes without relying on programming resources has been highly appreciated.

Furthermore, users have found this software instrumental in managing domain registration for various education services. It is recommended to customers who desire a CMS that allows them to independently manage website content. Integrating seamlessly with Microsoft Office, it enables easy review and editing of content. It has also been successfully employed as a global corporate web pages solution.

For more advanced functionalities, users have created custom modules such as displaying ad banners, capturing clicks, and providing statistics. The software's robust functionality has also allowed users to secure websites and manage customer support and software sales sites effectively.

Overall, this software has received positive reviews from customers who have successfully implemented it across different industries and domains. Its flexibility and ease of use make it an ideal choice for organizations looking for a reliable CMS solution that meets their unique requirements.

Reviews

12 Reviews

Content management is not a big deal with this software.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This software is used in our company to manage content. It is amazing in hosting an uncountable number of portals. Its integration with Microsoft Office is very beneficial for us in making our work easy. It enables us to review and edit content. Its interface is easy and even the newly hired people can work on it and haven’t faced any kind of trouble.

Pros

  • Content scheduling feature is very helpful and works amazingly well.
  • Its mobile access is quick and makes things easy.
  • It is a highly flexible tool and allows multiple customizations.

Cons

  • There should be more updates and updates should come frequently.
  • It has multiple bugs that disturb its working now and then.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is good for all sizes of firms from small to large. Everyone can use this tool to manage content and it has all the basic features needed. It is quite a flexible tool [which] is a positive point of this tool, and the mobile access is also amazing. What I don’t like about it is its tech support that should be made vigilant and there are not enough updates.

JA
Jenson Albie
Honorary Assistant Psychologist at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
1 year of experience
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Evoq Content met expectations.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Evoq for a client as it met all the requirements for their CMS. The sales and deployment process was drawn out due to the specifics of the client’s needs, but eventually it was installed and their site ran on it for several years.

Pros

  • Permissions
  • Content organization
  • Site speed

Cons

  • The GUI user Interface was confusing
  • On-site editing experience
  • Sales process (at the time was long)

Likelihood to Recommend

In a corporate setting it seemed to please both IT and content/marketing stakeholders

JR
John Reitz
Creative Director in Marketing at Links Technology Solutions (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
3 years of experience
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Best value CMS

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company itself does not use Evoq Content. I have done CMS evaluations for companies and have recommended Evoq Content based on company needs.

Pros

  • Out of box features
  • Friendly UI
  • Open source

Cons

  • Workflow
  • Module marketplace
  • Publishing

Likelihood to Recommend

Less appropriate when client has high marketing demands for personalization, or analytics

VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
1 year of experience

What Wordpress always wanted to be

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to manage our customer support site and software sales site. We utilize the Answers, Discuss, and Gamification aspects of Evoq. We also provide an area to download updates. We've extended Evoq to provide our own solutions to various business problems. We also install Evoq on sites for other clients.

Pros

  • Evoq is very extensible. As long as you can program in ASP.NET, you can customize it for any solution you may need.
  • It has great user controls and granular permissions for users allowing you to control access not whole sections of the site, individual pages, or even parts of a page.
  • Some of the modules you can purchase allow you to derive far more value than what you pay.

Cons

  • It can be a bit heavy-handed when it comes to styling. It's sometimes necessary to spend a little extra time to overcome styling issues.
  • Up until version 8 of the core DNN platform, implementing single page applications (SPAs) required extra efforts.
  • It is very difficult to split a site across multiple servers for load balancing

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for intranets and corporate websites where multiple people or teams will be updating content. It's overkill for small sites but even then, it is much more secure and robust than competitors like Wordpress. Additionally, the API encourages modules to remain separate from the platform. No mucking around with PHP.

VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
4 years of experience

Very Satisfied Evoq Developer

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Evoq Content was used by my client to manage membership for a specific web application. It solved problems related to membership signup process, activating members, and provided ways to manage membership processes. We incorporated the Evoq modules into the rest of the site in such a way that custom workflows were created to help site moderators determine when a member was due for re-credentialing or what documents were needed for a new credentialing process (end users were chiropractors and physicians).

Pros

  • Community building
  • Membership management
  • Authorization and authentication.

Cons

  • No need for improvement in my opinion.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for any community based DNN site.

SC
Sid Childers
Sole Proprietor in Information Technology at WebDBApps (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
2 years of experience

DotNetNuke - Great Content Management System

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DotNetNuke product was used to build company public-facing corporate and internal intranet websites. We had replaced old static website that required a lot of maintenance by IT staff. Any small change of contents required programming resource that was not always available. When we implemented DNN content management system IT programming resource has been completely freed up and content changes are now performed by Marketing and Corporate Service manager.

Pros

  • DNN is easy to install, configure and administer
  • DNN is a full-scale content management system that offers many options for managing blogs, photo galleries, files and communication
  • DNN is secure and offers flexible role-based security architecture

Cons

  • DotNetNuke integration with Active Directory can be improved
  • Ability for DNN modules to communicate (send-receive data) is missing and can be helpful if in place
  • DNN could offer wizard-type tools for custom modules development

Likelihood to Recommend

DNN is well-designed open source platform that is intended to allow management of websites without much technical knowledge, and to be extensible through a large number of third-party apps to provide functionality not included in the DNN core modules.

BS
Boris Skylar
Vice President, Application Systems in Information Technology at Penn Treaty Network America (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
9 years of experience
View profile

More than DNN for Dummies, DNN for Professionals as well.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<p>We use it for our own website, but we also host and use it to develop websites for our Clients. Our business model is a SaaS to the MLM / Network Marketing industry.</p><p>We write a lot of our own modules in C# and also buy a few from other developers.</p><p>Clients like to control the content and look and feel of their website, with DNN they have the ability to do so but then leave all of the heavy lifting to us to manage the Hardware, Programs, SQL Server and provide the necessary Reporting to them. </p>

Pros

  • If a Client needs to add a page for a special Event, they can do so without having to contact us.
  • If a Client needs to add or change content, text or images at any time day or night they have the ability to do so without having to contact us.
  • Our Clients do not have to know anything about HTML, ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server etc. If they know how to use a Word Processor then they can do most anything they need from a Content standpoint by just using their favorite Browser.
  • If they need a special Module to do accomplish a certain task and we don't have one then we can provide one of hundreds developed by another developer from the DNN Store. Most modules are less than $100.
  • Because DNN uses Skins that are a layer on top of the platform architecture they can have different skins for different pages or departments etc. On the DNN Store there are literally thousands of Responsive Skins available that range in price from $40 - $200.
  • The platform is scalable and of course SQL Server is as well. So no matter how large a company gets DNN can handle the task ahead.

Cons

  • I really only have 2 complaints and they are minor with DNN. First I think that DNN might need to do a better job of certifying Developers that sell modules. Create a standard if you will, much like Apple does with Apps, as not all developers are created equally and support on some modules is lacking with some developers.
  • The second thing is I would like to see DNN keeping Developers more informed about upcoming changes to the platform and better co-ordination with developers on time schedules of new releases. Many times it seems the Developers have to play catch up when a new version is released and all of a sudden you may have some Modules that don't play nice with the changes.
  • Neither of these are really a major problem as DNN and the community has evolved tremendously over the years and it is fairly easy to find solutions from the community.

Likelihood to Recommend

<p>If you just need to implement a website that is dynamic but not real big in Data Processing almost anyone can do so with very limited knowledge as long as you know how to use a Word Processor and your Browser.</p><p>If you don't have experience with setting up a Server to run a website there are Companies like PowerDNN, Rackspace and WinHost that can help and I recommend them in that order if you are using DNN.</p><p>If you need a more sophisticated e-commerce website and don't have much experience with Servers, SQL Server etc. then you should find a consultant to help you install and setup not just the DNN Platform but also select the proper Modules to accomplish what you want to do.</p><p>If you need a highly customized website that is very data intensive and you are not experienced then be sure to save yourself the time and money by finding a qualified Consultant to help you. The beauty of DNN is that it can handle as simple or as complicated of an Application as you need depending on what your needs are and how far you want to take it.</p>

DA
Dennis Ashe
President/CEO in Information Technology at Genesis Consulting & Genesis Domains (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Evoq Content
5 years of experience

DNN Best Use Cases

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DNN is being used in several areas. We are using it at my current employer as our externally-facing website, for clients as their CMS, and also for a few personal websites and blog platforms. At former employers, we used it primarily as our code base for custom intranet CMS solutions with integration into the Microsoft infrastructure.

Pros

  • DNN is a feature-rich, open-source project with a flexible license. This let us use it without licensing costs for custom solutions or as-is with no custom code just plug-in modules.
  • DNN is written in Microsoft .NET C#. This allows our developers and our customers to use their existing skill set to install and maintain the solution.
  • DNN is made for Windows platform, allowing us and our customers to deploy solutions to existing Windows servers or in some cases hosted platforms.
  • DNN integrates with Windows authentication allowing us to deploy intranet solutions and use single sign-on for improved user experience and security.

Cons

  • DNN is developed with Microsoft Visual Studio, which is great if your developers already know and use it, but switching to it can be expensive in terms of licensing (for paid versions) and training costs.
  • DNN module creation is powerful for custom solutions but more complex, time consuming, and error prone than some other open-source solutions based on open-source scripting languages that can be edited without needing to be compiled.
  • DNN has a rich 3rd-party ecosystem of modules and themes but it pales in comparison to a CMS such as WordPress.
  • DNN's foundation on Microsoft technologies is a strength if you need it but a potential limitation if your organization is not entrenched in the Microsoft ecosystem. For example, a quick search on some freelancer sites shows that WordPress developers outnumber DNN developers 10 to 1.

Likelihood to Recommend

DNN should be a consideration for an organizations using Windows and having developers proficient in Microsoft technologies, particularly C# .Net web-forms. However, there are alternative open-source CMS platforms, such as WordPress, that are more popular and, in my opinion, a better choice if the system will be hosted off-site or maintained by outside contractors.

ZS
Zolt Seregi
Developer in Information Technology at OneLink Technical Services (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
11 years of experience

DNN Review by T.Kruzik

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our implementation of DNN is as our global corporate we pages for users.

Pros

  • From my side DNN makes it very easy to manage everything we need to publish for users
  • Implementation of our custom modules is very simple

Cons

  • On version 6 of DNN, there are problem using multi-language settings for the portal and switching between languages when we try to use iFinity Url Master. The problem is with querystringsparameters with diacritic values

Likelihood to Recommend

Not really.

TK
Tomáš Kružík
Senior .NET Developer in Corporate at Hudson (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
8 years of experience

Give DNN a GO: my review of DNN.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by a department to manage domain registration for various education services.

Pros

  • Modular capabilities in term of software development and solution. The use of .NET platform further enhanced its power.
  • Skin development relatively easy to make, however, some specific knowledge of DNN platform is required.
  • DNN store provides a fast amount of effective, value of money solution. Most of the time, purchasing from the store is more than enough.

Cons

  • Skin customization has room to be improved.
  • Mobile friendly platform, e.g.: make use of the Bootstrap as default skin
  • DNN is more into software developer. It will nice to have some tools for web designers.
  • Lacking of complete facilities for disabled people (see WCAG). In this case Sitecore is much more powerful.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mobile web support, WCAG?

YY
Yudhistira Yu
.Net Developer in Information Technology at Brave Energy (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Evoq Content
5 years of experience