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    Cascade CMS

    Score5.4 out of 10
    N/ACascade CMS (formerly Cascade Server) by Hannon Hill is a content management system, with built-in tools to help users eliminate stale content, increase digital outreach, and promote end-user adoption and accountability. Cascade CMS is designed for decentralized web teams in most major industries, including higher education, government, healthcare, and technology. Included is Clive, an engagement and real-time personalization tool for collecting information and using it to craft personalized…N/A
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    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    Cascade CMS
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    Hannon Hill
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Cascade Server is miles ahead in usability and reliability. With DNN, I had to jump through hoops to add and edit content, and trying to customize was not easy.
    Incentivized
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    Fewer outages with Cascade. The templates are better and easier to navigate.
    Incentivized
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    Our latest round of CMS evaluations we looked at OmniUpdate, Drupal, and Wordpress as possible CMS choices. It quickly became apparent that all of the upper tier products seemed capable of managing strong websites, but upon a deeper investigation of our needs Cascade rose to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Cascade CMS focuses on managing content and gives you the tools to display this content any way that is needed. While it may lack some features/extensions found in other popular platforms, the user management, workflow and template engine are the best you can get.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    There are several fine CMS products on the market, and each serves its purpose. For our needs, Cascade CMS is the best alternative.

    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    We selected Cascade server seven years ago, and the CMS environment at the time was clearly different than it is today. We decided to go with a vendor solution rather than a free solution because the long term cost in hosting a free solution is not, in fact, free; we've found …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Because the (bad) Cascade decision was made quickly by a small team, we have a larger team and a longer timeline, with a growing list of functionality that we expect a replacement system to have. We've been looking into a number of other products to replace Cascade. Highest on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    • The learning curve is minimal compared to Drupal.
    • Implementation is easier
    • Cascade Server is secure
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    I didn't have any input when it came to buying/using Cascade server. In fact, before using Cascade I wasn't aware that such a website management system existed! I imagined it was going to be much more complicated--editing individual code and CSS page by page, with very involved …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Hannon Hill was chosen because of the architecture with the Cascade engine being separated from the published pages providing stability and security. The company is also focused on primarily higher education, the user group and feature set. The releases are always …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    The version of Sitecore that I use right now doesn't have a UI showing the assembled web page. That suits my current company's needs, but for most people, they want to see their changes within the tool as they make them, visible within their web page. Cascade Server does that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Cascade scales better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Very well. It works just for our purpose.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    WordPress offers a wide range of prebuilt templates, but Cascade Server offers great customization for folder structures and workflows.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    We felt the overall level of customization that Cascade Server allowed us was the deciding factor in our selection. Its users and groups management was also very robust and provided us a better system, and overall better access, for content managers in our organization.
    Chose Cascade CMS
    In my limited experience with WordPress, I found it difficult to retrofit to use as a content managements system for a website. It's a great blogging solution and could easily be used to manage an organization's press releases.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Cascade Server was the software I was required to learn. I have no further experience or suggestions for this software, other than its usage in basic website development functions. AutoCAT software allows for immediate access to basic functions of design, as well as the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    This is my first foray into web-content management, and I am using it simply because my supervisor required me to.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    I have not used any other products similar to Cascade Server at my current position.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Cascade was the College of Liberal Arts and the department's choice. I was a front-end user and web content developer. I know Cascade is widely used at the College and at other colleges and departments, but I do not know the reasons they selected Cascade.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Cascade is a significant improvement over WebCRMA in virtually all respects: more powerful and intuitive user interface, better multimedia integration, and a a greatly improved function set in terms of editing, reviewing, and publishing content. Although I did not play a role …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    It wasn't my personal choice to go for Cascade Server for my organization. But as I already said, Cascade Server is good for managing parent child websites which are uniform in design. I guess the level up to which uniformity can be maintained and traffic can be handled by …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    Cascade Server provides more formatting features. It pretty much provides all the features that a standard web service portal has and the website is written in complex programming languages such as c# or VB .Net, JAVA, J2EE, JSP etc. At the same time, Cascade Server provides …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    None, sorry.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cascade CMS
    I have used DreamWeaver before and that was much more difficult and stressful to use. Cascade Server is a dream (no pun intended).
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Cascade CMS
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Cascade CMS
    Feature
    Cascade CMS
    8.0
    19 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.019 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Cascade CMS
    Feature
    Cascade CMS
    7.1
    13 Ratings
    API7.012 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.37 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Cascade CMS
    Feature
    Cascade CMS
    7.1
    19 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor6.119 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.018 Ratings
    Admin section8.019 Ratings
    Page templates9.017 Ratings
    Library of website themes5.52 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.015 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.019 Ratings
    Form generator6.47 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Cascade CMS
    Feature
    Cascade CMS
    6.9
    18 Ratings
    Content taxonomy8.013 Ratings
    SEO support7.014 Ratings
    Bulk management9.014 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions6.011 Ratings
    Community / comment management4.85 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Cascade CMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    6.7
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)