Optimizely CMS is a great platform to build on.
February 20, 2023
Optimizely CMS is a great platform to build on.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Optimizely Content Cloud
Overall Satisfaction with Optimizely Content Management System
At Coastal Farm, we use the Optimizely CMS in conjunction with the Optimizely Commerce Cloud for our site: www.coastalcountry.com. The templating system in commerce allows us to make extensive use of the localization feature in CMS on all pages of the website, including product listing pages, product detail pages, and cart and checkout pages. This allows us to change page elements on the fly without requiring code changes. We use the core CMS functions for promotional pages and for our blog, which is extensive. Content tagging allows us to link products in the catalog to relevant blog topics and specific articles which provides additional value to our customers. The Optimizely platform is very extensible, so we can build what we need on top of it in order to provide the right experience for our customers.
- Optimizely CMS is highly extensible and customizable.
- Optimizely CMS CMS editor allows easy configuration of new pages.
- Optimizely CMS allows developers to prebuild highly customized content blocks for later use.
- Optimizely OMS localization enable fast content changes on very programmatic pages.
- The CMS admin UI is based on frames, which can be problematic when reloading.
- The CMS admin UI can sometimes be slow to respond.
- Optimizely CMS has helped up achieve our goal of pairing product data with compelling content.
- The ROI of our investment in Optimizely have been terrific over the last three years, our sales continue to grow.
- The Optimizely CMS's extensibility and built in features have allowed us to introduce new features to the site quickly and cost effectively.
We went from business requirements to a live production site launch in 9 1/2 months, with a product catalog of over 20,000 SKUs and extensive blog and content pages. If we had not had the commerce/product work to be done, we could have launched earlier.
We chose Optimizely CMS for its proposed ROI, it's extensibility, and it's quality developer/integrator community. With a good integrator, there is very little you can't do with this platform.
I was at an agency that used Sitecore, which is one of Optimizely's main competitors for about 12 years. So we did that. One of the big differences, and Sitecore might have this now, but Optimizely's support model is so good. It saved my bacon on a at least a monthly basis, maybe a weekly basis. So 24-hour support for the Pause platform is fantastic and I can reach out to them on a Saturday and I get a response and boom and we get fixes in place.
I was at an agency that used Sitecore, which is one of Optimizely's main competitors for about 12 years. So we did that. One of the big differences, and Sitecore might have this now, but Optimizely's support model is so good. It saved my bacon on a at least a monthly basis, maybe a weekly basis. So 24-hour support for the Pause platform is fantastic and I can reach out to them on a Saturday and I get a response and boom and we get fixes in place.
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