Cascade CMS vs. WordPress

Cascade CMS

59 Reviews and Ratings

WordPress

3,255 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cascade CMS	Score5.4 out of 10	N/A	Cascade 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
WordPress	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.	$3 per month 6 GB storage

Pricing

Cascade CMS

WordPress

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Personal: $4
per month 6 GB storage
Premium: $8
per month 13 GB storage
Business: $25
per month 50 GB storage
Commerce: $45
per month 50 GB storage
Enterprise: Contact for pricing

Pricing Offerings
Cascade CMS	WordPress
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Pricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Cascade CMS	WordPress
Considered Both Products	Hannon Hill Verified User 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 Helpful? Michael G. Wagner Webmaster in Marketing at Hofstra University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cascade CMS WordPress offers a wide range of prebuilt templates, but Cascade Server offers great customization for folder structures and workflows. Incentivized Helpful? Erik Espana Associate Director of Web Communications in Marketing at Union College, Communications & Marketing (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) 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 Helpful? Jason Slater Associate Director of Web Communications in Marketing at Union College (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cascade CMS WordPress was never evaluated when we decided on Cascade around 2008. We looked for an enterprise level system that would have vendor support and had more developer resources at the time. Our resources have diminished so having plugin solutions like WordPress would solve many … Incentivized Helpful? Craig Campbell Director of University Web Communication in Marketing at University of Hartford (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cascade CMS 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 Helpful? John Dezember Web & New Media Specialist at Cleveland State Community College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Hrishikesh Deshkar IT and Communications Analyst in Social Media at School of Information Studies, Syracuse University (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) 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 Helpful? Christopher Davis Director of Marketing Analytics and Strategy in Marketing at Philadelphia University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cascade CMS We knew we didn't have the department size (i.e., human resources) or time to work with open source products like Drupal and Joomla, and while we still use WordPress for offshoot blogs by some departments and programs, we needed a more robust CMS that would centralize design … Incentivized Helpful? Casey Gates Web Developer in Information Technology at St. Norbert College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Cascade CMS We selected Cascade Server because it manages users more easily. It also requires less coding skills than MS SharePoint does. Drupal on the other hand is freeware so your user support for Drupal is what you would get for not paying for something. Cascade Server dumbs it down … Incentivized Helpful? William White Marketing Manager in Marketing at HCC Medical Insurance Services (Insurance, 51-200 employees) Chose Cascade CMS The most striking advantage of Cascade Server is the push vs pull technology. Being able to reduce the constant hits to the server and database for every page delivery makes better use of physical resources and allows us to server our pages quicker. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Naji Webmaster User Support Specialist in Information Technology at Indiana University (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cascade CMS I have used WordPress and Drupal. They have completely different needs compared to Cascade Server. Cascade Server allows me, as a back end support staff member, to ensure thousands of people's sites are operating correctly and efficiently all with the click of a button. I … Incentivized Helpful?	Automattic Christopher Davis Director of Marketing Analytics and Strategy in Marketing at Philadelphia University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose WordPress With Drupal and Joomla as the only open source blogging products we considered (those many years ago when the web was in its relative infancy), WordPress was the clear winner as a turnkey solution with relative ease of use. Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Cascade CMS

WordPress

Comparison of Security features of Cascade CMS and WordPress
Feature	Cascade CMS 8.0 19 Ratings	WordPress 8.7 131 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	8.019 Ratings	8.7131 Ratings

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Cascade CMS and WordPress
Feature	Cascade CMS 7.1 13 Ratings	WordPress 8.7 107 Ratings
API	7.012 Ratings	8.997 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	7.37 Ratings	8.481 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Cascade CMS and WordPress
Feature	Cascade CMS 7.1 19 Ratings	WordPress 8.3 137 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	6.119 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	6.018 Ratings	7.0123 Ratings
Admin section	8.019 Ratings	8.7135 Ratings
Page templates	9.017 Ratings	9.0132 Ratings
Library of website themes	5.52 Ratings	6.5134 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	7.015 Ratings	9.0133 Ratings
Publishing workflow	9.019 Ratings	8.7128 Ratings
Form generator	6.47 Ratings	9.0106 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Cascade CMS and WordPress
Feature	Cascade CMS 6.9 18 Ratings	WordPress 8.6 135 Ratings
Content taxonomy	8.013 Ratings	8.9115 Ratings
SEO support	7.014 Ratings	8.7121 Ratings
Bulk management	9.014 Ratings	7.4102 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	6.011 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Community / comment management	4.85 Ratings	9.2124 Ratings

User Ratings
	Cascade CMS	WordPress
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (44 ratings)	8.4 (173 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (26 ratings)	10.0 (37 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (4 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Availability	6.7 (4 ratings)	9.5 (3 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (5 ratings)	10.0 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	7.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	5.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (4 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	5.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	6.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)