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Optimizely Content Management System

Overview

What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

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Recent Reviews

Optimizing for Success

9 out of 10
November 10, 2023
Incentivized
We manage our college website and market our programs to prospective students using Optimizely CMS to ensure that all information is …
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A Solid CMS Platform

8 out of 10
October 16, 2023
Incentivized
We use the ptimizely Content Management System to manage content on our B2B website. The product enables us to quickly and consistently …
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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Publishing workflow (125)
    8.1
    81%
  • Page templates (126)
    8.0
    80%
  • Admin section (126)
    7.9
    79%
  • WYSIWYG editor (128)
    7.7
    77%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

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Pricing

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What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.optimizely.com/plans/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Introduction to Optimizely Content Management System

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.5
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8.1
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.6
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.6
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Optimizely Content Management System?

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Its tools let marketers build channel-specific experiences in a few clicks (no coding needed), while Optimizely's GraphQL service enables content delivery from anywhere, to anywhere, to meet customers where they are.

Brand-approved content can be stored and organized for easy reuse with Optimizely's fully-integrated DAM, and data-driven personalization with AI-guided insights can be applied to deliver consistent, on-brand content that's optimized for individuals, in real-time.

Optimizely Content Management System Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication
  • Supported: User-level audit trail
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework Features

  • Supported: .NET

Optimizely Content Management System Screenshots

Screenshot of SaaS CMS edit view: A drag-and-drop UI authoring and on-page editing lets marketers and content creators build content experiences.Screenshot of Content delivery: Developers can use modern GraphQL and REST APIs to query content from any source and send it to any channel or device.Screenshot of Screenshot of DAMConnector: The fully featured Optimizely Digital Asset Management can connect to Optimizely CMS to serve as the single source of truth for brand assets.

Optimizely Content Management System Integrations

Optimizely Content Management System Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Optimizely's Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle so users can deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.

Sitecore Experience Manager, Adobe Experience Manager, and Acquia Digital Experience Platform are common alternatives for Optimizely Content Management System.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Optimizely Content Management System are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Episerver is widely used in our organization, and we are using it to provide services to b2b customers (large building companies) and b2c customers (bathrooms) and for internal users (sales material, product data).
  • Easy to use, low learning curve
  • Customization is easy
  • World class product
  • We will need developer to install nuggets :(.
  • In-river integrations were not as good as expected.
  • No marketing automation or user analytics included
It would be nice if marketing automation would be included in the basic Episerver CMS. Now, it's a different license to buy. Licenses are quite expensive for small and medium-sized companies.
Web Content Creation (7)
72.85714285714286%
7.3
WYSIWYG editor
60%
6.0
Code quality / cleanliness
90%
9.0
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
70%
7.0
Library of website themes
60%
6.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
80%
8.0
Publishing workflow
70%
7.0
Web Content Management (5)
46%
4.6
Content taxonomy
80%
8.0
SEO support
70%
7.0
Bulk management
N/A
N/A
Availability / breadth of extensions
80%
8.0
Community / comment management
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
75%
7.5
API
70%
7.0
Internationalization / multi-language
80%
8.0
Security (1)
90%
9.0
Role-based user permissions
90%
9.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • With Episerver and in-river integration, our new product launch can be done in hours, not in days (and nights).
  • We have built our whole b2b offer platform integrated to Episerver, saving time for our sales peoples.
  • We can provide sales materials and product data, intranet, and offer/order system from one place to our internal customers.
Content Author / Administrator
More than 10,000 pages
Episerver is cheaper and easier to use than Hybris, but Episerver Commerce is not as modern or easy to use as Magento for Webshops. You will need a proper partner or your own dev team to handle customizations and deploys. Make sure that you will have a team of 3-4 people, and at least 4-6 months for a basic website.
Yes
Updating Episerver for dev is easy, with little or no downtime at all.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Episerver as the host for our primary marketing website. We Self-Hosted, moved to DXC Cloud service offering and now back to Self-Hosting.
  • Site tree navigation
  • Developer ramp up time
  • Ease of deployment
  • Antiquated .Net technology
  • Headless documentation is limiting
  • Cloud offering not as strong as self hosting
  • Company focus on addons vs product improvement
Until they can get the entire package able to be on .Net core, I cannot recommend this product. Legacy .Net hosting models are a thing of the past. Episerver needs to embrace .Net core and headless first to be able to gain support or other systems will take its place.
Web Content Creation (7)
50%
5.0
WYSIWYG editor
50%
5.0
Code quality / cleanliness
80%
8.0
Admin section
60%
6.0
Page templates
80%
8.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
20%
2.0
Publishing workflow
60%
6.0
Form generator
N/A
N/A
Web Content Management (4)
25%
2.5
Content taxonomy
40%
4.0
SEO support
20%
2.0
Bulk management
20%
2.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
20%
2.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
45%
4.5
API
20%
2.0
Internationalization / multi-language
70%
7.0
Security (1)
80%
8.0
Role-based user permissions
80%
8.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • Mostly negative until we moved from DXC to self hosting
  • Ongoing maintenance will increase until .Net core is primary
  • RBAC has been helpful in letting content users access only blogs / news
Developer
100-1,000 pages
Preference in .Net and the limited functionality of saas offerings like Kentico has kept us on Episerver. Investigation is constant in searching for a solid .Net core solution that is headless first, and provides a similar admin experience to Episerver with a site tree navigation view.
Yes
Upgrading from a 2 year old version to current 2 years ago was pretty much a re-write. Ongoing upgrades have been flawless and occur on every deployment.
  • Maintainability
  • Feature Fixes
  • Maintainability
  • Feature Fixes
Yes
We went from self hosted, to the DXC cloud offering and back to self hosted. The pricing and deployment models in the cloud offering paled in comparison to just managing the workflow ourselves. Yes, you get unlimited sites etc with DXC, but downtime, the lack of a robust self-management portal or failover solutions prevented it's continued use. Many of the features were created because of our direct feedback, and at times we felt like the test rat for some of them. Now that we are self hosted, we have had no downtime and can deploy any time of day without interruption to our users.
No
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