Episerver is on its way up!
October 10, 2017

Episerver is on its way up!

Jared Wooden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Episerver Content Cloud

Overall Satisfaction with Episerver Content Cloud

As a partner, we often recommend Episerver to our clients or prospects. I've been involved with numerous large scale implementations to date.
  • Ease of use for content editors
  • Speed to market (easier to implement than many other alternative platforms)
  • Decent extensibility
  • Documentation quality is inconsistent. Ranges from detailed to non-existent, depending on the topic.
  • Publishing between multiple environments requires some nasty workarounds. Export/import tool doesn't work great. Anonymous project preview had to be custom built. Etc.
  • Caching is simple to use with the out of the box set up, but customizing/extending it can be tricky.
  • Clients pay us to implement it, so our ROI certainly benefits!
Sitecore is leaps and bounds ahead as far as personalization and profiling are concerned. They also have much more extensible publishing options. But we know (and many clients know) that it is a.) Expensive and b.) Incredibly time consuming to implement.
[It's] Best suited for a client who wants a .NET WCMS, with maybe some basic marketing automation/personalization functionality to make their CMO happy. Anything beyond that and I might point them to Sitecore (for now).

Optimizely Content Management System Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
7
Code quality / cleanliness
6
Admin section
6
Page templates
7
Mobile optimization / responsive design
7
Publishing workflow
3
Form generator
7
Content taxonomy
5
SEO support
7
Bulk management
3
Availability / breadth of extensions
5
Community / comment management
7
API
7
Internationalization / multi-language
7
Role-based user permissions
8