Contentful vs. Percussion CMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Contentful
Score 6.5 out of 10
N/A
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
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Percussion CMS
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Percussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content.N/A
Pricing
ContentfulPercussion CMS
Editions & Modules
Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ContentfulPercussion CMS
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ContentfulPercussion CMS
Features
ContentfulPercussion CMS
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.3
8 Ratings
10% below category average
Percussion CMS
3.0
1 Ratings
92% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.38 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
9 Ratings
5% above category average
Percussion CMS
1.0
1 Ratings
153% below category average
API8.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.76 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.7
10 Ratings
0% below category average
Percussion CMS
3.0
1 Ratings
88% below category average
WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.56 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Admin section8.08 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Page templates7.64 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Library of website themes7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.09 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Form generator7.01 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
9 Ratings
8% above category average
Percussion CMS
1.6
1 Ratings
129% below category average
Content taxonomy8.08 Ratings1.01 Ratings
SEO support7.07 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Bulk management7.75 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.56 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Community / comment management9.01 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
ContentfulPercussion CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(10 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ContentfulPercussion CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentful
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
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Percussion Software
Best suited for large organizations where everyone knows how to deal with Java in an increasingly Java unfriendly world. Said organization should be willing to pay a huge price for a piece of dinosaur technology
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Pros
Contentful
  • Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
  • High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
  • Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
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Percussion Software
  • Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security
  • Highly scalable
  • Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc..
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Cons
Contentful
  • The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
  • The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
  • It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
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Percussion Software
  • One word: JAVA! We don't live in the 1990's anymore! An AJAX/DHTML environment seems a long time coming.
  • Horrible end-user experience, learning curve. Our end users' inability to easily use the archaic, Java-based interface, means they send the web developer their content requests. This creates a huge bottleneck and completely defeats the purpose of a CMS.
  • Image mangement and integration with content is aweful and time consuming. An image processing tool called ImedImage was developed for Percussion at one point, and left completely stagnant with very little support.
  • Implementation is extremely complicated, given the complexity of the system. Sure, scalability is a good thing, but there is very little out-of-the box function. Don't expect to implement a site as quickly as with other CMS platforms.
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Alternatives Considered
Contentful
Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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Percussion Software
No contest. I can't wait to get off of Percussion CMS.
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Return on Investment
Contentful
  • There was no negative impact as such.
  • Positive impact is increase in sales.
  • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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Percussion Software
  • We are locked into Percussion CMS simply due to the expense and complexity of migrating to another solution (and the lack of time and budget to do so). I long for the day when I am no longer required to support Percussion CMS, to say the least.
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