Jahia Digital Experience Platform

Score8 out of 10

54 Reviews and Ratings

What is Jahia Digital Experience Platform?

Jahia is a Java-based enterprise content management system. It features an integrated user portal, web publishing and content management, document management, collaboration, and multi-channel publishing.

Categories & Use Cases

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WYSIWYG editor
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
Category average: 8.1
Content taxonomy
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
Category average: 8.1
Internationalization / multi-language
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Category average: 8.3

SEO support
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
Category average: 7.2
Library of website themes
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
Category average: 7.6
Code quality / cleanliness
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
Category average: 7.2

Salima Benotmane

webmaster in Information Technology at probtp (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Getting started is simple, fast and intuitive.As a contributor to my organization's website, the Jahia tool allows us to set up the site's various pages without having to use HTML/CSS/JS. Everything is designed for those who are not comfortable with code. However, if you want to use code, you can add it to adjust the content. Adding images and documents is quick and easy. Customer service is responsive and efficient. The components are complete and practical.

Pros

component diversity
Customization with templates
reactive customer service

Cons

page load times (backoffice) too long
limited JavaScript usage

Return on Investment

time savings on projects

Usability

Joe Banar

Software Quality Assurance Analyst in Quality Assurance at Avantia, Inc (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization implements the Jahia Digital Experience Platform for various other clients as well as our business website. We utilize the CMS component of Jahia Digital Experience Platform to help clients build out intricate websites, some public facing and some internal only. The majority of these CMS managed sites utilize custom development to expand on Jahia Digital Experience Platforms base functionality to meet various business requirements. We also train end users on how to utilize Jahia Digital Experience Platform to manage their content once everything has been completed in terms of development. Thanks to the user friendliness of the platform, this training is usually smooth and quick.

Pros

Content Management
Technical Support
Expandability
Customization

Cons

Improving some Admin functions in the CMS
Expand base functionality
Improving media management

Return on Investment

Able to quickly roll out content changes
Ease of training end users decreases handoff effort at the end of a project
Changes to core custom functionality can have some difficulties

Alternatives Considered

Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Sitecore Experience Platform

Other Software Used

Acquia Digital Experience Platform, Salesforce Essentials, Sitecore Experience Platform

Paola Puentes

Design lead at Bizagi (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Jahia in the company for more than 3 years and is a good experience for all the team, We found it intuitive, easy to use for global teams, and easy to customize and create new components. Jahia helped us to save time creating new pages in our site, and also guarantees that the usage of components pre-built ensures the brand consistency between the full website, even if is not a designer who creates a page, everything is going to look nice and onbranded.

Pros

Re usable components
Speed up the load times
Lots of marketing capabilities

Cons

Not enough documentations and code examples for developers
Sometimes slow performance
Versioning of contents

Return on Investment

Speed up the load times
Improves SEO
Time saving for collaborative teams

Aurelie Allein

Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at COVEA (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jahia is the CMS used in my company, mainly for our corporate sites. It enables non-IT users to update site content in complete autonomy and very quickly, without the need for IT staff intervention. Development enables the creation of templates and components to meet business needs. Connectors with other applications, such as a DAM, can provide a complete environment.

Pros

Content publishing
Good site response times
Robust platform

Cons

It lacks the ability to manage multiple versions of a page or content in general.
The back office interface sometimes encounters bugs or display problems.
It's difficult to keep pre-production sites up to date in terms of content compared to production, because the time required to import/export sites is very long once the site is rich in content.

Return on Investment

good image of company website
improved website performance
improve user autonomy in managing website content

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, Apache Tomcat, Chrome DevTools

Gerald Matthews

UX Manager in Marketing at Ascensus (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jahia to manage 40 plus client websites. We rely on Jahia to service a request pipline from marketing teams and external partners submit. This requires a tool that allows us to make edits fast and scale funcationality built accross websites. Jahia also powers the content distributed to our core product application and the ability to manage content in an headless enviornment has made updates timely and that is critical to client retention.

Pros

Media Management
Page Composer
Module Development
Reusablity of components

Cons

Video Tutorials
Tools for less Java skilled developers
Base template management

Return on Investment

Client Retention Tool
Consistent Uptime
Full Service Marketing Oppertunities

Alternatives Considered

Sitecore Experience Manager

Drupal

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Adobe Experience Platform

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What is Jahia Digital Experience Platform?

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WYSIWYG editor

Content taxonomy

Internationalization / multi-language

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SEO support

Library of website themes

Code quality / cleanliness

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