Jadu CMS Reviews & Insights

The worst CMS I have ever used. We use Jadu as the CMS for our college. We have multiple uses throughout the college. It is suppose to be used to organize our departments and content. It is years behind every other CMS I have every used (in my career I have used quite a few CMSs). It is expensive and to be frank, open source options like Drupal and Wordpress are a much better option.

Personally speaking Jadu would only be good for a government style website that is just text. It is not suited for anything else. It's lack of flexibility and amount of extra code need for simple task just does not make it suited for a company looking for a solid CMS option.

We are using Jadu for the core CMS of our public-facing website. In addition, it also serves as a portal for our current and prospective students. We are also using the XFormsPro Module (sold separately) to collect information from our users and automatically store it in our Oracle database. The Jadu CMS has become the center focal point for pretty much any web-based development we do.

The power of Jadu is incomparable. The set of features provided by alternative solutions like Drupal just don't stand up to Jadu. Jadu is continuously working on development and adding new tools. They even recently started releasing bi-weekly updates. We find it to be perfect for managing large websites, even if you have thousands of pages.

Jadu CMS is being used for our main home page for our college. We have a Marketing Web Team that manage the CMS and approves all content changes, among other duties, but we have users throughout our campus using it as content editors. We had previously used a Luminis (Ellucian) product to edit our web pages, but support for the product was being dropped by the company. It was also a very clunky and hard to use system. The decision was made to go with Jadu CMS over other products.

Jadu CMS is not currently geared toward the academic side, but more of the business/government types of organizations. Things can be tweaked to suit your needs, but sometimes there are limitations. The programmers are very helpful in assisting with that.

Jadu is being used as the content backbone for the entire organization. It helps us to address the problem of allowing content owners to easily add their own content while adhering to the web standards and guidelines established by the web and IT departments. Jadu is easy enough for all employees to be able to get started with submitting and editing their own content with minimal upfront training time.

Jadu is well suited for larger organizations that require many content owners and editors. It provides levels of access from editor to administrator across all the sites and pages. Be sure to select similar features to compare the product to its competitors to ensure that their are not any key features that may be missing for your Jadu implementation.