MODX vs. OpenText Web CMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MODX
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The MODX Digital Experience Platform provides everything you need to build, host, and maintain amazing websites your way. The vendor says that with MODX CMS and cloud hosting, users have complete control over their creative vision and the experiences they deliver, without restriction or compromise. They can focus more on building great digital experiences, and less on hosting and maintaining. If you ever need help, MODX Professionals are available worldwide and direct support from…
$0
OpenText Web CMS
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
OpenText Web CMS (TeamSite) accelerates and simplifies the end-to-end digital content and campaign lifecycle, from content creation and rich media management to omnichannel publication, optimization, automation, commerce, and community. According to the vendor, with TeamSite, users can: Capture diverse digital audiences with amazing brand experiences – Give customers and prospects consistent, high-quality brand experiences across devices and channels, and foster closer…N/A
Pricing
MODXOpenText Web CMS
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Base
$39
per month
Pro
$99
per month
Business
$349
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MODXOpenText Web CMS
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPAYMENT FORMS MODX Cloud accepts major credit cards and PayPal for your hosting subscription. We can only accept check (cheque) payments on the Enterprise Plan, annually. CANCELLATION You may cancel your MODX Cloud account at any time. Before you cancel you'll be reminded to backup and remove all your live websites and then follow the instructions for cancellation. If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. REFUNDS If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. All other cancellations will be effective at the end of your current billing period. We do not provide refunds for remaining days or months on monthly or annual billing.
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Community Pulse
MODXOpenText Web CMS
Considered Both Products
MODX
Chose MODX
After having built sites with wordpress, joomla, drupal, october cms, craft cms, magento, presstashop, opencart, os commerce and more it is my number 1 (october cms is 2).

Chose MODX
The other company that we looked into was Wordpress and all of the features that it offered our organization. What MODX offered to us from development to everyday use just made more sense for our organization as a whole. Wordpress is still a great CMS platform, just not exactly …
Chose MODX
As said before, MODX is a coder's dream because of the flexibility it provides to own your code and has true creative freedom. Because of that, there is a bigger learning curve when it comes to a non-developer trying to iterate on the CMS with content additions and changes. To …
OpenText Web CMS
Chose OpenText Web CMS
It offers more content editing features at a relatively low cost thus overall deployment is lower in cost. It has great customer support who are always there to support and answer to our needs thus making the process of deployment seamless at every stage and offering training …
Chose OpenText Web CMS
OpenText TeamSite has been more powerful and resourceful as compared to Storyblok. The cost of deployment was relatively low and it has more content editing features. The customer support team members are always online 24/7/367 and they offer the best training of working with …
Chose OpenText Web CMS
It offers an intuitive user experience, modern, versatile and consistent in performance. It simplifies the whole process of managing the digital experience across all marketing channels, which is done from a unified interface. This tool has enabled us to take control of our …
Chose OpenText Web CMS
OpenText went through an RFP process against IBM Content Management back in 2012. OpenText not only met our business and technical requirements, but we asked both vendors to show a use case and OpenText provided an extensive solution that IBM could not. Also the content …
Chose OpenText Web CMS
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Features
MODXOpenText Web CMS
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
MODX
9.9
Ratings
20% above category average
OpenText Web CMS
8.6
Ratings
6% above category average
Role-based user permissions9.90 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
MODX
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
OpenText Web CMS
7.9
Ratings
4% above category average
API6.10 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language9.90 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
MODX
9.4
Ratings
20% above category average
OpenText Web CMS
8.0
Ratings
4% above category average
WYSIWYG editor9.80 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness9.90 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Admin section8.90 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Page templates9.90 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Library of website themes7.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.90 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.90 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Form generator9.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
MODX
9.5
Ratings
26% above category average
OpenText Web CMS
7.9
Ratings
7% above category average
Content taxonomy9.90 Ratings7.90 Ratings
SEO support10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management9.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.90 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Community / comment management9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MODXOpenText Web CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
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7.4
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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3.6
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Usability
10.0
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7.3
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Availability
10.0
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Performance
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
6.4
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Vendor post-sale
10.0
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Vendor pre-sale
10.0
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User Testimonials
MODXOpenText Web CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion, MODX is usually the choice of a developer who wants to build out custom designs that create really interesting web pages, but when it comes to being easily used and edited by your marketing team, you can run into a lot of issues and end up making simple changes a more involved process.
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OpenText TeamSite is well-suited to large, enterprise-wide implementations where customization, content governance, and dynamic content distribution is needed or prioritized. It is probably not ideal for smaller sites with simple architecture and few resources to manage custom implementation.
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Pros
  • Custom design capabilities.
  • Works well with plugins.
  • Permission systems for users.
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  • Offering compelling experiences to customers, which help in improving satisfaction
  • Information is delivered across multiple channels
  • Testing relevant result sets to improve the rate of website conversion
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Cons
  • Content Blocks - I mentioned this as a strength, but it also has its quirks. There are times that things do not function properly within the content blocks we have set up.
  • More Customization - The ability for the average user to customize more without having to know a ton of code.
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  • I have recommendation for improvements.
  • It is easy to work with all the features.
  • All necessary content management tools are included.
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Likelihood to Renew
It is the CMS we use the most, not because we know it well but because we literally tried many of other CMS and this one did it for us.
However having said we really do not like the one shoe fits all approach. E..g for eCommerce we usually use PrestaShop etc. if a specialized CMS can do a task rather use that.
However for a general CMS [MODX] is hard to beat.
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Usability
Great and easy to use for both the coder and the end user. Especially if setup correctly by the coder.
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Overall, it's a solid package with the potential to offer much functionality with appropriate resources applied. There are a few issues with the authoring interface that OpenText should address before its a top shelf authoring experience.
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Reliability and Availability
We have not had it go down due to bugs etc. especially when comparing it to other cms out there.
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Performance
Damn its fast. really good page speed out of the box.
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Support Rating
Great community support on slack.
If you have a paid plugin great support also esp from modmore
If you have cloud hosting MODX support is fast and all servers are optimized for MODX
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Our technical resources engage with OpenText TeamSite so I don't have direct experience. However, critical issues that we need help with seem to get the attention they deserve without issue. However, training and user resources for business owner roles are a bit lacking and some annoying issues with the authoring interface should be addressed sooner.
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Implementation Rating
Good system
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Alternatives Considered
The other company that we looked into was WordPress and all of the features that it offered our organization. What MODX offered to us from development to everyday use just made more sense for our organization as a whole. WordPress is still a great CMS platform, just not exactly what we were looking for.
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It offers more content editing features at a relatively low cost thus overall deployment is lower in cost. It has great customer support who are always there to support and answer to our needs thus making the process of deployment seamless at every stage and offering training for working with their product.
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Scalability
Very scalable. e.g. in the [MODX] manager you can manage multiple websites at once without having to login else where. it is very convenient and this way resources and be easily managed and shared.
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Return on Investment
  • The positive impact that MODX has had on our organization is that it has allowed us to generate more organic traffic to our site.
  • We are also able to push more paid advertisements to our site on our lead generation landing pages.
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  • We integrated with google analytics, now we have the proper comprehension of our audience data reception and behaviors - we've greatly improved on personalized marketing.
  • Quick publication of content across the main digital channels.
  • We run our digital campaigns swiftly.
  • We've maintained our brand consistency for three years.
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