Ektron? Good Grief.
Updated August 22, 2015
Ektron? Good Grief.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Ektron Web CMS
Modules Used
- Aloha Editor
Overall Satisfaction with Optimizely Content Cloud (formerly Episerver Content Cloud)
Ektron is used as the platform to manage and deliver all our web communications and content via the diocese's main website.
- Forms are relatively easy to use and set up within Ektron, but by easier, I mean, easier than coding them by hand.
- Ektron's user interface could use a complete overhaul, beginning with the odd logical separation between "Library" items and "Content." From an end-user perspective these distinctions are completely irrelevant and only serve to confuse everyone.
- The way Ektron reads html in the code editor is unfathomable. White space is dealt with in a completely unconventional and error prone way and the text editor often inserts immense amounts of unnecessary markup that often causes problems and bugs.
- Ektron contains so many bugs its almost impossible to list them all. As the main editor of the website, my standard answer to any standard functionality requests is "no" because Ektron charges inordinate sums of money for those functions and even if we do custom manage our own solution, it would likely cause the entire system to crash.
- Ektron is very very slow.
- Ektron requires a seperate module for mobile/web-friendly websites. You can't just code it yourself. You have to buy their's.
- Ektron has cost our non-profit huge sums of money with little to no return. Most of our web initiatives have been put on complete hold as we have begun to outsource most of our work to third parties as our website is a mishmash of technologies and patchwork fixes.
- Ektron has slowed down workflows considerably and all of our content editors refuse to produce content they do not absolutely have to, resulting in the web content manager (me) taking on most tasks or retraining people on a continuous basis.
Content Author / Administrator
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I did not select Ektron. Ektron was selected by executives at our company prior to my arrival here and they refused to heed my warnings.
Our website was more functional and received regular updates using HAND-WRITTEN code on an Apache server with an FTP connection prior to Ektron and it was better in every way than what we deal with now.
Our website was more functional and received regular updates using HAND-WRITTEN code on an Apache server with an FTP connection prior to Ektron and it was better in every way than what we deal with now.
Optimizely Content Management System Feature Ratings
Using Optimizely Content Cloud (formerly Episerver Content Cloud)
25 - Content editors, administrators, and IT support.