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Episerver CMS review from a well-known eCommerce site.
June 11, 2020

Episerver CMS review from a well-known eCommerce site.

Christopher Schipper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Episerver Content Cloud

Overall Satisfaction with Episerver Content Cloud

We use Episerver as the host for our primary marketing website. We Self-Hosted, moved to DXC Cloud service offering and now back to Self-Hosting.
  • Site tree navigation
  • Developer ramp up time
  • Ease of deployment
  • Antiquated .Net technology
  • Headless documentation is limiting
  • Cloud offering not as strong as self hosting
  • Company focus on addons vs product improvement
  • Mostly negative until we moved from DXC to self hosting
  • Ongoing maintenance will increase until .Net core is primary
  • RBAC has been helpful in letting content users access only blogs / news
Developer
100-1,000 pages
Preference in .Net and the limited functionality of saas offerings like Kentico has kept us on Episerver. Investigation is constant in searching for a solid .Net core solution that is headless first, and provides a similar admin experience to Episerver with a site tree navigation view.
Until they can get the entire package able to be on .Net core, I cannot recommend this product. Legacy .Net hosting models are a thing of the past. Episerver needs to embrace .Net core and headless first to be able to gain support or other systems will take its place.

Optimizely Content Management System Feature Ratings

5.8
WYSIWYG editor
5
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
6
Page templates
8
Mobile optimization / responsive design
2
Publishing workflow
6
Form generator
Not Rated
2.5
Content taxonomy
4
SEO support
2
Bulk management
2
Availability / breadth of extensions
2
4.5
API
2
Internationalization / multi-language
7
8.0
Role-based user permissions
8
CMS programming language or framework ()
Not Rated

Upgrading Episerver Content Cloud

Yes - Upgrading from a 2 year old version to current 2 years ago was pretty much a re-write. Ongoing upgrades have been flawless and occur on every deployment.
  • Maintainability
  • Feature Fixes
  • Maintainability
  • Feature Fixes
Yes - We went from self hosted, to the DXC cloud offering and back to self hosted. The pricing and deployment models in the cloud offering paled in comparison to just managing the workflow ourselves. Yes, you get unlimited sites etc with DXC, but downtime, the lack of a robust self-management portal or failover solutions prevented it's continued use. Many of the features were created because of our direct feedback, and at times we felt like the test rat for some of them. Now that we are self hosted, we have had no downtime and can deploy any time of day without interruption to our users.