Umbraco CMS Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Umbraco CMS for a customer who wanted to move from WordPress to Umbraco. We used Umbraco to migrate existing blogs, also built modules to create product marketing pages. We also leveraged Umbraco's multilingual capabilities to create localized versions of the website for customer's European and Asian markets.

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco CMS is best suited for developing content-rich websites that require dynamic pages with extensive customization options. It's even great for .NET developers who want to use their existing expertise rather than learning WordPress or other CMS platforms.

Would not recommend Umbraco for small business websites with simple content needs where the complexity of Umbraco might be overkill.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Umbraco is used as the main website for one of the business units. With that being said, it was used for the whole organization as a core point of content for technical documents and reference materials for our product. It addressed the problem of not having a functional website and met security needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

I didn't like Umbraco at all. It was already in place by someone who didn't have an SEO background. I evaluated an upgrade from Umbraco to Wordpress or Hubspot CMS and definitely beyond a doubt Umbraco couldn't compete. I have been for years easily updating content in CMS including currently working in Ruby on Rails and in my perspective, Umbraco is one of the worst. It would never be a choice for anywhere that cares about SEO and being found on the web for marketing. Maybe it's ok for an internal library or something but I wouldn't waste my time.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At Attityde ApS, Silkeborg we develop all our customer solutions with Umbraco. If the customer demands anything else, we send them away! From giant to tiny companies, and through the use of Umbraco, our projects are always a success thanks to the flexibility of Umbraco. 500+ Umbraco sites and counting... Even our own website, intranet, and special products are based on Umbraco. We would be able to provide the same fantastic solutions if it wasn't for Umbraco... and we wouldn't want it any other way.

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco is well suited if you want to host the website yourself or if our customers want them on their own server. It's easy to get started though our own instance-system were we can spin-up customer sites within 4 minutes.

If you just want to have a borring-wp-a-like site that looks like everything else on the internet, Umbraco is not the best solution. It's more time consuming to get a proper website up and running.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Umbraco is really what it says, a friendly CMS.

It is nice and easy for developing web sites and has many very good features.

Likelihood to Recommend

Whenever there is a need for a small/medium-sized web site Umbraco CMS is a good choice. For larger multi-language sites there are probably better choices.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a web development company and we set clients up with Umbraco.

Likelihood to Recommend

I like using Umbraco, but the update process is a PIA compared to WordPress. We have clients on WordPress and try to sell them on the idea of switching, but the maintenance to update Umbraco is a road block. Our clients don't have to pay to have their WordPress site updated. There are bugs in every release and the release schedule is mind numbing. Almost every other week there is a new release and with 20 web sites in Umbraco, it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep up with the maintenance and bill our clients for something that should have worked to begin with. Umbraco is more like a hobbyist CMS and is not quite ready for prime time. I would pay for a CMS to be bug free. The cloud option for Umbraco is not an option for us and honestly I find it impossible for the cloud option to be updated "automatically" while professional developers have issues with simple updates.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

One of the client of my company will migrate several web site to Umbraco CMS. For now we are in a learning phase and start to test the workflow with Umbraco and several plugins like Ucommerce and uSync. Our client would start to migrate one or two sites and their application first, and they intend to migrate other of their applications and web sites later.

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>Umbraco CMS is well suited for a small and medium size company and organization. The time to market is not long.</li><li>Umbraco CMS is less appropriate for large scale web site or application, especially if there are a lot of content managers and writers who work simultaneously on the web site.

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We create our website, so it is used by the whole organization and all our potential customers. We manage Umbraco CMS by a person in the marketing department, and a little work is done by developers. We also change Umbraco a little to suit the needs required by the marketing department as very important.

Likelihood to Recommend

As I write, Umbraco is very good in customization, also customization by programmers, but sometimes it needs quite a lot of knowledge to develop something. It is also very scalable and it is the best CMS framework in .net programming. There is not too much competition in this area, though maybe I would like to have a little bigger community

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Umbraco to build our company company website. It's a great tool and very easy to use, it allows me to [have] different roles from editor through to admin. The CMS is simple to use, each employee has been able to use it independently with very little training.

The system has allowed us to integrate our digital marketing into web pages, so for the end user, the process of completing forms is seamless.

We have been so impressed with the umbraco CMS that we currently use this tool to deliver [our] website to our customers.

The main reason we chose this tool was we wanted a site that could be updated and maintained by anybody, and we wanted to avoid having to wait for the development team to make a simple change to the site.

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco CMS is the perfect tool for a company that is looking to keep their website updated. The simple to use tools and templates means updating and creating new pages is easy. The WYSIWYG editor is a nice feature, however, for accessibility, there should be some more guidance on what is suitable to be used on the CMS.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Umbraco CMS is the content management system for our entire website. It is used by the whole organization, but mostly the Content team, which uses it for publishing, and the Technology and Events teams. It addresses the need for a powerful, yet customizable management system that can host a wide range of content and media types.

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco is well suited for websites that are looking to do a wide range of activities that require complex technoligies. An example of this is a company with several different products or services. Umbraco would be overkill for simple sites that are mostly static. It is also difficult to find developers who have Umbraco experience, as it's market share is not all that high.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we have one client that uses Umbraco CMS. It filled their need of moving off of static HTML pages to a .NET CMS system that did not have prohibitive costs/licensing fees. The client only has one developer on hand, so this provided a way to democratize content updates across a larger user base.

Likelihood to Recommend

Umbraco CMD is well suited for users looking for a .NET based CMS system without the high licensing fees that come with a system like Sitecore. It allows the developer to easily get up and running, model data, create front end templates, and get a framework of a site out quickly. It is also easy to extend the built in functionality with your own .NET libraries. For enterprise level users, Umbraco might not have quite enough juice to model and deliver content efficiently.