Real Story Group. Make Better Technology Decisions.

Delivering fearless advice since 2001. Here's our story
What Real Independence means. Find Out

  • Free Excerpt
  • Contact
  • Subscriber Login
  • Your cart is empty.
Sign up for our Newsletter
  • Home
  • Research
  • Coverage Areas
  • Consulting
  • About
  • Blog
  • Buy Now
  • Advisory Papers & Webinars
  • Vendors Evaluated
  • Schedule Analyst Advisory Session
  • Email Inquiry
  • Custom ShortList Builder

CMS Stream

  • All CMS Research
  • Latest CMS Research Updates
  • CMS Vendors We Evaluate

Get This Research

  • Sample the CMS Evaluations
  • Purchase the full CMS Research

Other Streams

  • Brand & Digital Asset Management
  • Broadcast & Media Asset Management
  • Cloud File Sharing & Collaboration
  • Digital Marketing Technology
  • Document Management (ECM)
  • Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software
  • Enterprise Search
  • Evaluating SharePoint
  • Portals & Content Integration

Have Questions?

Sales & Customer Support

+1 800 325 6190 (USA & Canada)+44 (0) 20 3318 1911 (UK)+1 617 340 6464 (Int'l)sales@realstorygroup.com support@realstorygroup.com

All other inquiries: info@realstorygroup.com

Web Content & Experience Management Vendors

The 907-page Web Content & Experience Management Report evaluates 37 solutions, comparing them head-to-head within each category.

Legacy Platforms

Large-scale platforms typically marketed in multidimensional "suites" that span many function points, but may be less well-suited for straightforward Web CMS projects. Expect about US $200-250k+ for entry-level licensing.

  • HP: Autonomy TeamSite
  • IBM: IBM Web Content Manager
  • OpenText: Vignette - OpenText

Upper-Range Platforms

Upper-range platforms occupy a moderately expanding space between departmental installations and full-blown Enterprise-tier vendors.

  • Adobe: Adobe CQ5
  • Alfresco: Alfresco WCM
  • CoreMedia: CoreMedia CMS
  • Oracle: FatWire Content Server
  • Percussion: CM System
  • SDL: SDLTridion
  • Sitecore: Sitecore

Mid-Range Platforms

These offerings serve mid-market companies, or departmental projects within larger enterprises. In particular, they target scenarios requiring above-average customization — often requiring an outside consultant.

  • Atex: Polopoly
  • Drupal: Drupal
  • EPiServer AB: EPiServer
  • Hippo: Hippo CMS
  • Microsoft: SharePoint 2010 WCM
  • Plone: Plone CMS
  • TYPO3: TYPO3

Mid-Range Products

A key advantage of this class of products as a whole is that they tend to offer more pre-packaged features. Many of them actively promote “website-in-a-box” solutions that include bundled social applications, analytics, collaboration, and more.

  • CrownPeak Technology: CrownPeak CMS
  • e-Spirit: FirstSpirit
  • Ektron: CMS
  • Enonic: Enonic CMS
  • eZ Systems: eZ Publish
  • Hannon Hill: Cascade Server
  • Ingeniux: Ingeniux Content Management System
  • Limelight Networks: Dynamic Site Platform
  • Magnolia: Magnolia CMS
  • Vizrt: Escenic

Simpler Products

These are smaller, albeit established vendors that come to the marketplace with packaged tools at attractive prices. However, sometimes the tools are not as feature rich or as well tested as many of their “mainstream” competitors.

  • DotNetNuke: DotNetNuke
  • Joomla Project: Joomla!
  • Kentico: Kentico CMS
  • MODX: Revolution
  • OmniUpdate: OU Campus
  • OpenCms: OpenCms
  • Salesforce.com: Salesforce: site.com
  • Telerik: Sitefinity CMS
  • TERMINALFOUR: Site Manager
  • WordPress: WordPress

See a list of all vendors we evaluate

Note to vendors on how this list is created

Real Story Group

Follow us on:  RSS  |  Twitter  |  Facebook  |  YouTube

Coverage Areas

  • Web Content & Experience Management
  • Brand & Digital Asset Management
  • Broadcast & Media Asset Management
  • Document Management (ECM)
  • Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software
  • Portals & Content Integration
  • Enterprise Search
  • Evaluating SharePoint
  • Cloud File Sharing & Collaboration
  • Digital Marketing Technology

Premium Research

  • Compare Research Programs
  • Advisory Papers & Webinars
  • Vendors Evaluated
  • Build a Custom ShortList
  • Schedule Analyst Consultation
  • Download Immediately

About Us

  • Our Methodology
  • Our Team
  • Media
  • Customer List
  • Events
  • Consulting Services
  • Contact Us

Need Help?

  • Talk to an Expert
  • FAQs
  • Customer Support
  • Contact Sales Team
  • Help with your account

Copyright Real Story Group 2001 - 2013. All rights reserved.

  • Contact Us
  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Log In

Remember MeForgot password?

close x
close x

All analyst firms claim to be independent or vendor-neutral. We're different.

Real Independence


Get the real story on commercial and open source tools from a firm that works only for you, the technology customer.

close x

Newsletter Signup

Thank you for signing up for The Real Story Group Newsletter. You will receive our monthly newsletter, plus updates with new information on the technology streams you have expressed interest in below.










Choose the streams that you’d like to receive updates for: