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What is Optimizely Content Management System?
Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle, helping users to deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.
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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, making it easier to deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.
The CMS offers tools that let marketers build channel-specific experiences in a few clicks (no coding needed), while Optimizely's modern GraphQL service enables content delivery from anywhere, to anywhere, so marketers can meet customers where they are.
Optimizely's fully-integrated DAM allows users to store and organize brand-approved content for reuse, and apply data-driven personalization with AI-guided insights 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
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Optimizely Content Management System Competitors
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- Contentful
- Contentstack
- Sitecore XM Cloud
- Wordpress CMS
Optimizely Content Management System Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
Mobile Application | No |
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Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) is purpose-built for marketers, and fully composable for developers. The CMS supports the end-to-end content lifecycle, helping users to deliver on-brand, high-impact digital experiences that 'wow' audiences.
Adobe Experience Manager, Acquia Digital Experience Platform, and Contentful 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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Optimizely Content Management System to the rescue
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 26, 2025
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Easily add reusable content with blocks so there is one place to make changes that are applied wherever that content block exists.
- The digital asset library makes it easy to store files (images and pdf's) and make updates to those files that are applied everywhere.
- Real-time live preview and then can publish changes instantly or schedule when content is published.
- Webpages are desktop or mobile friendly without having to make custom pages or layouts.
- The additional tools we find helpful are the link validation, global find and replace, and the ability to define personas.
Cons
- The image editor needs better functionality and options for automated image sizing choices.
Optimizely CMS 12
Rating: 10 out of 10
May 05, 2025
NN
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
- Easy content authoring
- Content personalization
- Scalability
Cons
- Future improvements with block editing
A good solution but could do better in user experience
Rating: 7 out of 10
July 17, 2025
CO
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Block contents
- Drag and drop
Cons
- User experience
- Uploading images
Overall great the more complex your needs the more complex the work
Rating: 6 out of 10
July 18, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Asset and block organization (using same folder structure)
- Page type options (html, css options)
- Search within CMS
- Commerce editing UI
Cons
- promo types, several have been released that do not work as they are advertised/labeled which has caused us to make custom promos for just about all of them where we've actually fixed the functionality. The OOB types are completely unreliable
- promo exclusions/sorting -- this is very buggy, and some of this would normally be "out of the box" like no two order discounts should ever be able to stack. This gets incredibly difficult to manage when you have 75 active promos at a time.
- asset management - replacement files with same name aren't recognized even when the first version is deleted, this creates a mess in asset folders - nothing can be successfully deleted from epi asset library
- html automatic edits -- issues when typing in either content page links or asset links, epi always adds random characters to the end (?"Epieditmode=false,6789" for example, which doesn't break content, but does make it more difficult for the team to use non-epi html tools to build or edit
- auto dimensions on images -- when adding an image in the html, you have the address exactly, but any other way causes the editor to put width and height dims on the code, making the image warp in mobile, this is adding steps to undo the automatic edits, they are completely unhelpful
- blogs - we are running a blog in Opti that is compeltely manual, every "related article" and every "articles about x topic" block is hard coded, there is nothing dynamic in the content library which is frustrating, and creates a huge time suck for articles across the site, every time there is a new one, that's 10+ manual page updates
Optimizely CMS.
Rating: 7 out of 10
July 05, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- Unable to filter blocks depending on type.
- There is no repository for deleted items or trash.
- Pages are not automatically arranged in chronological order in the folder.
Cons
- Extract of blocks list.
- Repository of trash.
- Search trashbin via block ID.