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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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Stay away unless you are a government website

Rating: 1 out of 10
September 27, 2018
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Verified user
Professional
Jadu CMS5 years of experience

Jadu CMS Review`

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 7, 2015
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 XForms...
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Verified user
Administrator
Jadu CMS2 years of experience

Jadu in an Educational Setting

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 1, 2014
Vetted ReviewVerified 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 ha...
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Rachel Hannie
Technician - Information Technology
Service Desk Specialist
Tyler Junior College
Jadu CMS2 years of experience

Jadu is on the right path to mature success

Rating: 5 out of 10
May 1, 2014
Vetted ReviewVerified 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 adh...
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Reed Horanburg
Consultant - Information Technology
Digital Media/Marketing Lead
McKonly & Asbury
Jadu CMS1 year of experience
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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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Product Details

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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Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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Stay away unless you are a government website

Rating: 1 out of 10
September 27, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jadu CMS
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • The one thing Jadu does well is organize your own content well.
Likelihood to Recommend
Personally speaking Jadu would only be good for a government style website that is just text. It is not suited for anything else. It's lack of flexibility and amount of extra code need for simple task just does not make it suited for a company looking for a solid CMS option.
Jadu CMS Feature Ratings
Web Content Creation (5)
20%
2.0
WYSIWYG editor
30%
3.0
Code quality / cleanliness
10%
1.0
Admin section
20%
2.0
Publishing workflow
10%
1.0
Form generator
30%
3.0
Web Content Management (5)
10%
1.0
Content taxonomy
10%
1.0
SEO support
10%
1.0
Bulk management
10%
1.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
10%
1.0
Community / comment management
10%
1.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
15%
1.5
API
30%
3.0
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
N/A
Security (1)
20%
2.0
Role-based user permissions
20%
2.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
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.

Jadu CMS Review`

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 07, 2015
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jadu CMS
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
The power of Jadu is incomparable. The set of features provided by alternative solutions like Drupal just don't stand up to Jadu. Jadu is continuously working on development and adding new tools. They even recently started releasing bi-weekly updates. We find it to be perfect for managing large websites, even if you have thousands of pages.
Jadu CMS Feature Ratings
Web Content Creation (7)
78.57142857142857%
7.9
WYSIWYG editor
70%
7.0
Code quality / cleanliness
90%
9.0
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
80%
8.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
70%
7.0
Publishing workflow
90%
9.0
Form generator
70%
7.0
Web Content Management (5)
76%
7.6
Content taxonomy
90%
9.0
SEO support
80%
8.0
Bulk management
80%
8.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
60%
6.0
Community / comment management
70%
7.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
85%
8.5
API
80%
8.0
Internationalization / multi-language
90%
9.0
Security (1)
90%
9.0
Role-based user permissions
90%
9.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered

Jadu in an Educational Setting

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 01, 2014
RH
Rachel Hannie
Service Desk Specialist
Tyler Junior College (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jadu CMS
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Jadu CMS is not currently geared toward the academic side, but more of the business/government types of organizations. Things can be tweaked to suit your needs, but sometimes there are limitations. The programmers are very helpful in assisting with that.

If you have some in house programmers, and you can get developer training, they will be able to program their own custom widgets to use on your website. We did not have programmers but managed to create a few simple widgets.

There's also a marketplace to look for other widgets that you could use on your site.
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
  • 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.
Likelihood to Renew
9
I decided not to give it a 10 because I don't know what else is out there in terms of CMS products, and there's a bias when you've only been exposed to one product. At my current job, I used Jadu sparingly but it's easy to get reacquainted with the software and the look and feel of the CMS.
Users and Roles
110
Because we're an educational institution, our users are representatives across different departments across campus. We have both faculty and staff using the program.
Support Headcount Required
2
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.
Easy Tasks
  • 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.
Difficult Tasks
  • 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.
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
No
Usability
10
For the common user, Jadu is very easy to use and to understand. For the more complex user/administrator, there's a lot of power to be harnessed in HTML editing, creating widgets, editing styles, creating workflows, and other advanced features Jadu can work up for the customer.

Jadu is on the right path to mature success

Rating: 5 out of 10
May 01, 2014
RH
Reed Horanburg
Digital Media/Marketing Lead
McKonly & Asbury (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jadu CMS
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Provides site and content standardization
  • Provides ease of use to novice web creators
  • Provides detailed control for more advanced users
Likelihood to Recommend
Jadu is well suited for larger organizations that require many content owners and editors. It provides levels of access from editor to administrator across all the sites and pages. Be sure to select similar features to compare the product to its competitors to ensure that their are not any key features that may be missing for your Jadu implementation.
Return on Investment
  • Increased employee efficiency
  • Able to empower content providers
  • Ability to access and develop in the cloud
Alternatives Considered
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.
Likelihood to Renew
10
We recently migrated to Jadu and will not be leaving any time soon. As we learn more and more about how to effectively utilize all the feature we are happier with the end result that the product provides. Our journey with Jadu is still growing but the future is looking bright.
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