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Optimizely Content Management System

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

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

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Product Demos

Visual Builder Demo (SaaS CMS)

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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 8.2

Platform & Infrastructure

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

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Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.8
Avg 7.8

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

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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, 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

Optimizely Content Management System Screenshots

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 User roles and permissionsScreenshot of (SaaS CMS): Visual Builder: Add an image: Optimizely Visual Builder offers a range of editing features designed to make content creation and layout building intuitive and accessible to both technical and non-technical users. A drag-and-drop system is used to add, move, and rearrange elements within the layout, for quick and flexible content organization.Screenshot of (SaaS CMS): Visual Builder: Create an experience: Create an Experience functionality in Optimizely Visual Builder offers a code-free way to build and manage captivating digital experiences. It offers pre-built content blocks or elements (like text, images, buttons, forms, etc.) that can be positioned on the page layout as desired. Visual Builder offers extensive options to customize the appearance and behavior of these elements. Users can modify colors, fonts, sizes, animations, and even add interactive features providing flexibility in arranging content, accommodating various design needs and responsiveness across different screen sizes.Screenshot of (SaaS CMS): Visual Builder: Publish: The Visual Builder displays changes in real-time as they are made. This includes side-by-side previews for different devices like desktops, tablets, and mobiles. Before publishing, the Interactive Preview mode can be used to test elements like forms, buttons, and other interactive components to ensure they work as expected on the live site. Changes can then be published directly from the Visual Builder interface, making them instantly available to site visitors.Screenshot of the central location to manage assets, editing and publishing content.Screenshot of the integrated AI Translations, along with a full DAM, available directly in the CMS.Screenshot of where to create and edit dynamic experiences in the Visual Builder, no coding required.

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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 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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Optimizely Content Management System to the rescue

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 26, 2025
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Optimizely Content Management System
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
Optimizely Content Management System
8 years of experience
  • Easy content authoring
  • Content personalization
  • Scalability
Cons
  • Future improvements with block editing

Overall great the more complex your needs the more complex the work

Rating: 6 out of 10
July 18, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Optimizely Content Management System
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
Optimizely Content Management System
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.
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