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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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Jadu CMS Review`

9 out of 10
July 07, 2015
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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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September 27, 2018

Stay away unless you are a government website

Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
  • 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.
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.
July 07, 2015

Jadu CMS Review`

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
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.
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