Episerver CMS--worth a try
June 12, 2020

Episerver CMS--worth a try

Joonas Tammisto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Episerver Content Cloud

Overall Satisfaction with Episerver Content Cloud

Episerver is widely used in our organization, and we are using it to provide services to b2b customers (large building companies) and b2c customers (bathrooms) and for internal users (sales material, product data).
  • Easy to use, low learning curve
  • Customization is easy
  • World class product
  • We will need developer to install nuggets :(.
  • In-river integrations were not as good as expected.
  • No marketing automation or user analytics included
  • With Episerver and in-river integration, our new product launch can be done in hours, not in days (and nights).
  • We have built our whole b2b offer platform integrated to Episerver, saving time for our sales peoples.
  • We can provide sales materials and product data, intranet, and offer/order system from one place to our internal customers.
Content Author / Administrator
Episerver is cheaper and easier to use than Hybris, but Episerver Commerce is not as modern or easy to use as Magento for Webshops. You will need a proper partner or your own dev team to handle customizations and deploys. Make sure that you will have a team of 3-4 people, and at least 4-6 months for a basic website.
It would be nice if marketing automation would be included in the basic Episerver CMS. Now, it's a different license to buy. Licenses are quite expensive for small and medium-sized companies.

Optimizely Content Management System Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
6
Code quality / cleanliness
9
Admin section
8
Page templates
7
Library of website themes
6
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8
Publishing workflow
7
Content taxonomy
8
SEO support
7
Bulk management
Not Rated
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
Not Rated
API
7
Internationalization / multi-language
8
Role-based user permissions
9

Upgrading Episerver Content Cloud

Yes - Updating Episerver for dev is easy, with little or no downtime at all.