Our experience with Optimizely (former EpiServer)
January 06, 2022
Our experience with Optimizely (former EpiServer)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Episerver Content Cloud
Overall Satisfaction with Optimizely Content Cloud (formerly Episerver Content Cloud)
We use Optimizely Content Cloud to host one website and a content library. We are in process of migrating additional sites from Sitecore and Wordpress to EPI (Optimizely).
- Easy Deployments and Managements
- Excellent support: assistance with deployments, account management, and other tasks.
- High reliability
- The names of the products and features could be confusing to new users.
- If you start implementing Content Cloud, adding E-Commerce functionality may not be easy. In our case, we lost several days because we decided to add support for future e-commerce implementation. We had to do significant application changes to accommodate this.
- The email marketing functionality is not as Clear Cut as competitors (MailChimp etc.)
- Website uptime has improved
- We can faster build new websites by using templates
It took us almost 1-year to launch our first website. However, the delays were caused by internal constraints.
Prior to Optimizely, we used Sitecore hosted on-premises. When we started to look at Cloud Migration, the price point was too high for us. Also, once we moved to Sitecore version 9.1, it became too hard to manage. The Epi (Optimizely) was priced just right. We also looked at Adobe. This solution appears to be great but too expensive.
Do you think Optimizely Content Management System delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Optimizely Content Management System's feature set?
Yes
Did Optimizely Content Management System live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Optimizely Content Management System go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Optimizely Content Management System again?
Yes