Item: Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Rating: 8
Author: Joe Banar

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization implements the Jahia Digital Experience Platform for various other clients as well as our business website. We utilize the CMS component of Jahia Digital Experience Platform to help clients build out intricate websites, some public facing and some internal only. The majority of these CMS managed sites utilize custom development to expand on Jahia Digital Experience Platforms base functionality to meet various business requirements. We also train end users on how to utilize Jahia Digital Experience Platform to manage their content once everything has been completed in terms of development. Thanks to the user friendliness of the platform, this training is usually smooth and quick.

Pros and Cons

Content Management
Technical Support
Expandability
Customization

Improving some Admin functions in the CMS
Expand base functionality
Improving media management

Return on Investment

Able to quickly roll out content changes
Ease of training end users decreases handoff effort at the end of a project
Changes to core custom functionality can have some difficulties

Alternatives Considered

Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Sitecore Experience Platform

I would say that the Jahia Digital Experience Platform is definitely easiest when it comes to content management. The ease of use when everything is properly implemented is very high. Other platforms have significantly higher effort to make content from scratch in my opinion. Expandability via custom development also appears to be easier. This expandability also seems to support more complex functionality than other platforms, possibly due to the ease of modifications.

Key Insights

Do you think Jahia Digital Experience Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Jahia Digital Experience Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Jahia Digital Experience Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Jahia Digital Experience Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Jahia Digital Experience Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Acquia Digital Experience Platform, Salesforce Essentials, Sitecore Experience Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

In my experience, Jahia Digital Experience Platform as a CMS platform is excellent when you have a large amount of content that needs to be customized. It is also good for when you have templated content that has minor variations. I would say it is less appropriate when the content has numerous mathematical computations, or a large amount of business logic that comes into play with data processing.

Jahia Digital Experience Platform is an easy to use platform with great expandability

Overall Satisfaction with Jahia Digital Experience Platform