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Jahia Digital Experience Platform

Score8 out of 10

54 Reviews and Ratings

What is Jahia Digital Experience Platform?

Jahia is a Java-based enterprise content management system. It features an integrated user portal, web publishing and content management, document management, collaboration, and multi-channel publishing.

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Top Performing Features

  • WYSIWYG editor

    What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Content taxonomy

    Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Internationalization / multi-language

    The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • SEO support

    The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

    Category average: 7.3

  • Library of website themes

    A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Code quality / cleanliness

    Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.

    Category average: 7.1

Easy, intuitive handling

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Getting started is simple, fast and intuitive.As a contributor to my organization's website, the Jahia tool allows us to set up the site's various pages without having to use HTML/CSS/JS. Everything is designed for those who are not comfortable with code. However, if you want to use code, you can add it to adjust the content. Adding images and documents is quick and easy. Customer service is responsive and efficient. The components are complete and practical.

Pros

  • component diversity
  • Customization with templates
  • reactive customer service

Cons

  • page load times (backoffice) too long
  • limited JavaScript usage

Return on Investment

  • time savings on projects

Usability

Jahia Digital Experience Platform is an easy to use platform with great expandability

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization implements the Jahia Digital Experience Platform for various other clients as well as our business website. We utilize the CMS component of Jahia Digital Experience Platform to help clients build out intricate websites, some public facing and some internal only. The majority of these CMS managed sites utilize custom development to expand on Jahia Digital Experience Platforms base functionality to meet various business requirements. We also train end users on how to utilize Jahia Digital Experience Platform to manage their content once everything has been completed in terms of development. Thanks to the user friendliness of the platform, this training is usually smooth and quick.

Pros

  • Content Management
  • Technical Support
  • Expandability
  • Customization

Cons

  • Improving some Admin functions in the CMS
  • Expand base functionality
  • Improving media management

Return on Investment

  • Able to quickly roll out content changes
  • Ease of training end users decreases handoff effort at the end of a project
  • Changes to core custom functionality can have some difficulties

Alternatives Considered

Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Sitecore Experience Platform

Other Software Used

Acquia Digital Experience Platform, Salesforce Essentials, Sitecore Experience Platform

Intuitive and well supported

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Jahia in the company for more than 3 years and is a good experience for all the team, We found it intuitive, easy to use for global teams, and easy to customize and create new components. Jahia helped us to save time creating new pages in our site, and also guarantees that the usage of components pre-built ensures the brand consistency between the full website, even if is not a designer who creates a page, everything is going to look nice and onbranded.

Pros

  • Re usable components
  • Speed up the load times
  • Lots of marketing capabilities

Cons

  • Not enough documentations and code examples for developers
  • Sometimes slow performance
  • Versioning of contents

Return on Investment

  • Speed up the load times
  • Improves SEO
  • Time saving for collaborative teams

A powerful and reliable cms

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jahia is the CMS used in my company, mainly for our corporate sites. It enables non-IT users to update site content in complete autonomy and very quickly, without the need for IT staff intervention. Development enables the creation of templates and components to meet business needs. Connectors with other applications, such as a DAM, can provide a complete environment.

Pros

  • Content publishing
  • Good site response times
  • Robust platform

Cons

  • It lacks the ability to manage multiple versions of a page or content in general.
  • The back office interface sometimes encounters bugs or display problems.
  • It's difficult to keep pre-production sites up to date in terms of content compared to production, because the time required to import/export sites is very long once the site is rich in content.

Return on Investment

  • good image of company website
  • improved website performance
  • improve user autonomy in managing website content

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, Apache Tomcat, Chrome DevTools

Trusted Vendor with Premium Support and Tooling

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jahia to manage 40 plus client websites. We rely on Jahia to service a request pipline from marketing teams and external partners submit. This requires a tool that allows us to make edits fast and scale funcationality built accross websites. Jahia also powers the content distributed to our core product application and the ability to manage content in an headless enviornment has made updates timely and that is critical to client retention.

Pros

  • Media Management
  • Page Composer
  • Module Development
  • Reusablity of components

Cons

  • Video Tutorials
  • Tools for less Java skilled developers
  • Base template management

Return on Investment

  • Client Retention Tool
  • Consistent Uptime
  • Full Service Marketing Oppertunities

Alternatives Considered

Sitecore Experience Manager