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The worst CMS I have ever used. We use Jadu as the CMS for our college. We have multiple uses throughout the college. It is suppose to be …
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Jadu CMS
Jadu CMS
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What is Jadu CMS?
Jadu is a PHP based proprietary content management system from the company of the same name. Its architecture is cross platform and runs in Windows in the .Net framework, Linux, and Solaris.
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What is Jadu CMS?
Jadu is a PHP based proprietary content management system from the company of the same name. Its architecture is cross platform and runs in Windows in the .Net framework, Linux, and Solaris.
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What is Jadu CMS?
Jadu is a PHP based proprietary content management system from the company of the same name. Its architecture is cross platform and runs in Windows in the .Net framework, Linux, and Solaris. Typical users of Jadu are organizations, including governments and private sector entities. The Jadu platform provides non-technical tools to manage large scale multi-channel marketing and specializes in forms, search, and mobile accessibility of end user content. It is scalable and provides a widget based app framework with an app store. Some of its features are its workflow engine, asset management, style & template management, scheduled or immediate delivery of content, site analytics, themes and skins, advanced caching, and interactivity (e.g. polls), and more. Support is available for implementation, price will vary.
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September 27, 2018
Stay away unless you are a government website
Score 1 out of 10
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The worst CMS I have ever used. We use Jadu as the CMS for our college. We have multiple uses throughout the college. It is suppose to be used to organize our departments and content. It is years behind every other CMS I have every used (in my career I have used quite a few CMSs). It is expensive and to be frank, open source options like Drupal and WordPress are a much better option.
- The one thing Jadu does well is organize your own content well.
- Jadu has one of the worst database setups I have ever used. If you want to grab content that needs at least 2 categories you are out of luck.
- It is not flexible at all. A simple thing link create menus with drops downs cannot be done without extensive code.
- It is extremely slow. Loading pages on the page end takes up to 30sec.
- The support team are nice guys, but we find ourselves waiting several days for a response to an issues and it doesn't seem like they know what they are doing a lot of the time.
- Bugs, bugs and more bugs.
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- Jadu have forced us to spend more time figuring out new ways around it database. We have actually turn to updated json files by hand because of how bad the system is for widget.
- Jadu has cost us a lot of time just waiting for pages to load.
Jadu is miles behind these and many other CMSs. The others are much more up to date with their code and ease of use. The ability to customize other CMSs is much easier and the code structure actually makes sense. Jadu was selected because it had a portal out of the box.
July 07, 2015
Jadu CMS Review`
We are using Jadu for the core CMS of our public-facing website. In addition, it also serves as a portal for our current and prospective students. We are also using the XFormsPro Module (sold separately) to collect information from our users and automatically store it in our Oracle database. The Jadu CMS has become the center focal point for pretty much any web-based development we do.
- Reliability. The LAMP-powered server/software rarely has any problems and can handle hundreds of concurrent users without issue. It was developed with scalability in mind.
- Ease of Use. Our users find the backend GUI very easy to use. The layout is intuitive and follows the same format throughout the entire control panel.
- Powerful. Even if it doesn't do something you would like it to out of the box, the code is well formatted and easy to customize.
- Bugs. We seem to run in to random bugs quite often and find it odd that nobody else has reported them yet. More extensive testing might be helpful before releasing versions/patches.
- Authentication. It would be nice to see Single Sign-On added to both the front end and administrator panel. Almost all higher education schools are using some sort of SSO, in particular, CAS.
- Support. The support team is fantastic, but sometimes we find ourselves waiting several days for a response to an issue we are having.
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- More modern design compared to our old website software solution.
- Much easier to navigate and find content, as well as searching.
- More reliable and efficient in terms of server resources.
May 01, 2014
Jadu in an Educational Setting
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Jadu CMS is being used for our main home page for our college. We have a Marketing Web Team that manage the CMS and approves all content changes, among other duties, but we have users throughout our campus using it as content editors. We had previously used a Luminis (Ellucian) product to edit our web pages, but support for the product was being dropped by the company. It was also a very clunky and hard to use system. The decision was made to go with Jadu CMS over other products.
- The interface to edit content is simple and resembles word processing programs with its editing abilities.
- If you do not have a separate form creation program/application, Jadu has its own form module.
- Jadu gives the ability for users to sign in on your webpage and have different options for logged in users.
- Even if you haven't used the system in a long time, it's easy to get reacquainted with the user interface.
- The Jadu team we worked with kept constant communication with us throughout the different stages of switching to a new CMS.
- Jadu has a great support website that will allow you to search problems, submit your own, and receive responses from the support team.
- Sometimes when copying/pasting content, there hidden HTML elements that don't show up on the WYSIWYG when an editor makes the changes, and it requires the administrators to go back in and edit the HTML to get it to look the same.
- If users are allowed to add pictures to the system, they're also allowed to delete photos. There's no middle ground on that.
- Since Jadu is not geared toward educational use, Jadu has a great potential for the future.
- Jadu has allowed us to allow more users to edit their own content, and in a much easier format.
- Compared to our old CMS, there are more features available through Jadu that helps us make our website better.
- Luminis CMS
I was not part of the team that evaluated other products during the CMS search. I did however use our old CMS from Luminis, which was not a great product. It's almost not fair comparing the two products because Jadu blew it out of the water. I do know that our company researched several companies and felt that Jadu was the company that would suit our needs the best.
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Because we're an educational institution, our users are representatives across different departments across campus. We have both faculty and staff using the program.
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Our web team is a part of the marketing department. They have backgrounds in graphic design and web development (HTML, CSS). To completely utilize Jadu, it would be good to have someone that knows Javascript and PHP.
- Creating a workflow for approving submissions.
- Adding users and setting permissions for what users can do.
- Creating a homepage template to use on other homepages.
- Moving groups of downloads into a different order instead of just by date of creation.
- Uploading a large group of downloads.
- Finding hidden HTML elements when copying/pasting to the editor window.
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May 01, 2014
Jadu is on the right path to mature success
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jadu is being used as the content backbone for the entire organization. It helps us to address the problem of allowing content owners to easily add their own content while adhering to the web standards and guidelines established by the web and IT departments. Jadu is easy enough for all employees to be able to get started with submitting and editing their own content with minimal upfront training time.
- Provides site and content standardization
- Provides ease of use to novice web creators
- Provides detailed control for more advanced users
- The custom HTML editor can be frustrating
- Does not provide advanced controls and looks as well as some competitors
- Menus to add media content are litigious and require many clicks
- Increased employee efficiency
- Able to empower content providers
- Ability to access and develop in the cloud
Compared to WordPress, Jadu provides excellent rights and access management. It can be fined tuned at any level to get the options right to just what you are looking for. It is not quite as user friendly or able to be updated as WordPress but may be better for larger organizations or implementations.