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Percussion CMS

Overview

What is Percussion CMS?

Percussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content.

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Percussion CMS

Percussion CMS

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What is Percussion CMS?

Percussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

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

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Product Demos

Percussion CM1 - Web Content Management Demo

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Product Details

What is Percussion CMS?

Percussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content, without great technical expertise. Percussion uses simple drag-and-drop editing, built-in blogs, responsive mobile templates, SEO tools with analytics and testing (e.g. A/B testing), and migration with LiveFirst to streamline editing and delivery of content.Take ownership of content, design, and go live dates because Percussion CMS is a product, not a platform. It also manages workflow, role assignment, shared assets, and versioning. It is browser-based and needs no special software to run.

Percussion CMS Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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May 03, 2016

Keep looking. Percussion CMS is nightmare.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 51-200 employees
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Percussion CMS is powering our internal and external facing websites. It is being used across multiple departments, by a handful of contributors.
Pros and Cons
  • Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security
  • Highly scalable
  • Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc..
  • One word: JAVA! We don't live in the 1990's anymore! An AJAX/DHTML environment seems a long time coming.
  • Horrible end-user experience, learning curve. Our end users' inability to easily use the archaic, Java-based interface, means they send the web developer their content requests. This creates a huge bottleneck and completely defeats the purpose of a CMS.
  • Image mangement and integration with content is aweful and time consuming. An image processing tool called ImedImage was developed for Percussion at one point, and left completely stagnant with very little support.
  • Implementation is extremely complicated, given the complexity of the system. Sure, scalability is a good thing, but there is very little out-of-the box function. Don't expect to implement a site as quickly as with other CMS platforms.
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for large organizations where everyone knows how to deal with Java in an increasingly Java unfriendly world. Said organization should be willing to pay a huge price for a piece of dinosaur technology.
Percussion CMS Feature Ratings
Web Content Creation (7)
25.714285714285715%
2.6
WYSIWYG editor
60%
6.0
Code quality / cleanliness
30%
3.0
Admin section
20%
2.0
Page templates
10%
1.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
N/A
N/A
Publishing workflow
50%
5.0
Form generator
10%
1.0
Web Content Management (5)
16%
1.6
Content taxonomy
10%
1.0
SEO support
10%
1.0
Bulk management
30%
3.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
10%
1.0
Community / comment management
20%
2.0
Platform & Infrastructure (1)
10%
1.0
Internationalization / multi-language
10%
1.0
Security (1)
30%
3.0
Role-based user permissions
30%
3.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • We are locked into Percussion CMS simply due to the expense and complexity of migrating to another solution (and the lack of time and budget to do so). I long for the day when I am no longer required to support Percussion CMS, to say the least.
Alternatives Considered
No contest. I can't wait to get off of Percussion CMS.
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