Overall Satisfaction with Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS is the content management system for our entire website. It is used by the whole organization, but mostly the Content team, which uses it for publishing, and the Technology and Events teams. It addresses the need for a powerful, yet customizable management system that can host a wide range of content and media types.
- Plugins - as an open source CMS, Umbraco is very customizable and flexible to the needs of the organization
- Publishing - Umbraco has powerful tools for publishing
- Media hosting
- Speed for older sites - Umbraco content can load slowly if you have thousands of pages of content. Of course, this would not be a problem for simpler websites
- Complexity - since the product is free out-of-the-box, it will take technical expertise to get Umbraco setup properly
- Positive: as a free product out-of-the-box and having a .NET technical expert on staff, Umbraco has had a tremendously positive ROI for us
- Negative: some pluggins have failed to update during Umbraco upgrades
Both are comparable. We selected Umbraco CMS because it used .NET instead of PHP. I would recommend choosing the CMS that your staff and technical people will be the most comfortable with.