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Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. In principle, Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and internal websites. It is also well positioned to be used as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool. The strengths of Plone are its flexible and adaptable workflow, very good security, extensibility, high usability and flexibility.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/vN/ba/TA6HPVTEQVP2.PNGPlonePlone - enterprise opensource CMS2014-02-20T19:34:33.035ZWe develop Plone solutions for our clients and use the product ourselves. We have been using Plone since version 2 and currently use it on new projects.
Plone provides a very powerful base CMS and application platform upon which we build customised solutions for our clients. Plone provides a very scalable architecture, the ability to configure complex workflows and permissions, the ability to plug in external authentication systems, full revision history and tracking of content revisions and many other enterprise features not seen in most opensource CMSs,Very powerful and configurable security and permissions. This makes it easy to develop private intranets, secure areas of a site or simply be confident that the site won't be hacked easily.
Configurable workflows allow us to develop custom workflow solutions for our clients without the need for complex programming.
Base CMS functionality meets the needs of the vast majority of our sites without the need for significant programming, a large number of mature add-on products help in this area too.
Excellent SEO capabilities such as clean URLs, automated sitemaps, built in metadata management ensure Plone sites rank very highly in search engines
Version control of all changes with a detailed history and the ability to roll back changes. This has saved me many times in the past.
Plone is one of the most secure CMS solutions available. Vulnerabilities are extremely rare and the development community is highly skilled and alert to issues that do arise.,As a CMS its hard to find a flaw in Plone. But it is a difficult platform to learn and develop in. The Zope framework is unusual in its structure and can take a long time to become familiar with. So the one significant downside of Plone is the effort required to gain solid technical expertise.,10,For out business Plone allows us to deliver enterprise level solutions at very reasonable budgets. We tender and compete against some of the much larger commercial CMS solutions and regularly win comfortably on price and deliver on functionality.
Plone also allows us to provide much more functionality than many clients expect. We are often able to over deliver on small budget projects because Plone comes with so much built in.,,10,9Tom CameronPlone, a high mountain to climb, but a beautiful view reaching the top.2014-03-04T16:58:15.523ZI use Plone to develop professional responsive websites for small and medium companies. Plone has a perfect separation of logic and templates using Diazo and a very powerful toolkit under the hood to develop any possible web application.
For my clients it is the best I can offer as a CMS, being the most user-friendly I have encountered in the last decade. Where in my price-range mainly Joomla and Wordpress websites are developed, I have a really strong competing product, offering a much less vulnerable environment. Further more it is possible to completely version-control the whole development, and scripting the whole deployment environment using Buildout.,Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.,Plone development is hard to learn. Plone is on the right track to make simple development more easy, but is far from its goal.
Documentation is always a problem. This is due to Plone's complexity.
There are only few providers capable of running Plone-websites.
Plone is not very well known to the public, making it harder to sell.,10,Plone makes it possible to maintain and update the running websites with very small effort.
My customers need little to no support on using the CMS.
Creating custom content types is really fast.,WordPress,Joomla,10Ronnie StevensThe best CMS most people will never use...2015-07-17T22:12:56.296ZThe slowprint.com public web presence has been on a Plone stack since SlowPrint started in 2007.
I also use Plone for other web properties, including my consulting at fraterdeus.com
As a content management system, Plone provides the ability to manage changing content requirements, for updating, adding new content, integrating a Twitter feed, etc.,Rock-solid technology stack. The python/Zope/Plone stack is as solid as anything else out there.
Highly customizable TTW, if needed, via the Zope Management Interface, or Diazo XSL-transform theme design.
Good support from core developers, lots of solid add-ons which address just about any needs.
Amazingly customizable workflow, permissions and security management.,Error messages are often cryptic, rising up with a traceback from deep in the system.
It's perhaps hard to control this, since add-ons will always bring uncontrolled elements to bear.
Perhaps some way to better visualize the source of the problem? End users should never see a traceback.
TTW design options. In fact, Diazo based theming is remarkably powerful, and there are many tools for TTW design, but to better integrate this essential part of web development would make for a more useful end product.,8,Positive in that we were able to launch a new site in a few days, mostly copying and pasting directly through-the-web from our old site.,Content Author / Administrator,10-100 pagesPeter FraterdeusFast, secure, and solid CMS that your clients will love.2014-02-18T22:07:33.275ZWe are using Plone for more than 6 years to develop websites for the public administration and private held companies. The whole organization is using Plone and not only to develop solutions for our clients but also internally, where we have built a strong set of internal tools and a knowledge management tool to help our developers to adapt to our development environment. We are using Plone as an open source software to build and implement solid e-government solutions for parliaments and administrations. Plone is a robust CMS with a strong security system and it doesn't have any additional license fees. Implementation costs are minimized because it's also easy to learn from the final user perspective.,Security management: Plone handles security pretty well out-of-the-box due to its Plone/Zope stack, also Plone doesn't use a SQL database so it's not vulnerable to injection.
It's easy to learn: Final users usually need only 1 single session to learn how to use a Plone powered website and manage it's content. There isn't a different back-end, content can be edited from the front-end.
Speed: Plone is memory efficient, and plays well with caching systems like Varnish.,Learning curve for developers: Plone is not a simple solution, it's complex and it needs some serious learning time to start being really productive and being able to make a good use of the tool.
Plone requires a dedicated server and some deep knowledge to build and mantain your projects.
It's difficult to find Plone expertise and consulting services in some countries.,9,Using other CMS's we usually needed 3-4 hour sessions to teach our clients how to manage their websites. Using Plone we spend only 1-2 hour in each session.
We found that there's an important learning curve in the development process. The investment pays off in long-term, but you should be prepared for that kind of cost.
Less time spent applying hotfixes as Plone had a small number of vulnerabilities in the past years.,9Marc PampolsPlone the enterprise open source CMS2014-02-20T23:38:17.593ZWe have been using Plone for more than ten years to deploy websites, intranets, document managements systems and collaboration portals for our clients. We also use it for our websites and intranet and also for some internal applications. It allows to easily create web applications and above all to let them be managed by non technical users.,Websites - with Plone you can give the complete management of the website to editors who don't have to be expert in web development. Thus, they can even create complex web application without coding.
Intranets - Plone has a strong content distribution system where anyone can only see and search what is reserved to him. It can be used to create workgroups and can handle many different types of content.
Collaboration portals - Plone can be easily integrated with any user base and provides natively tools that let people to collaborate together both within organization and outside.,Plone has a steep learning curve if you want to manage all its aspects. Some things can be done easily, but others require great skills.
The Plone templating system is very specific and requires to be fully understood if you need to customize it deeply.,8,As a development company Plone allows us to provide complex web applications in a short amount of time.
Plone is quite robust and reliable so when you customize some parts you do not risk to damage other parts. This is quite positive for a web development framework,
Plone allows our clients to spread their activities among different employees improving the efficiency of content generation and management.,,10Fabrizio Reale
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