Keep looking. Percussion CMS is nightmare.
Rating: 2 out of 10
IncentivizedUse 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
- Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security
- Highly scalable
- Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc..
Cons
- 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.
Vetted Review
6 years of experience