I _genuinely_ don’t understand why a (large) organisation would use this CMS (called Contensis), rather than have a web designer or even a web developer (who they definitely already have on staff), put something together that would do all the things this overpriced CMS does, and more.
On that note, pricing is very high, $900/m minimum for 100Gb transfer, 50GB of storage and ONE project and FIVE users.
For $900/m at Linode, that’s a 96GB RAM, 48 CPU core, Dedicated VPS!
I would assume that the local org I’m referring too would have Enterprise, which is minimum $1700/m
Now obviously for WordPress you could have unlimited concurrent users, as many projects as is needed, and a lot more storage and transfer, for maybe $50 or over 90% less cost…
Does anyone have any experience of this, and would they be able to tell me why a large company or enterprise would use it over WordPress, which is highly customisable _and_ has plugins and obviously open source code, all of which Contensis does not have.
They seem to make a big deal of the REST API and things like content versioning and content scheduling. All of which WordPress obviously has, or can have with 1 or 2 plugins to manage things easier like AAM…
I won’t link the company because I don’t want people to go and use them unnecessarily, as I think anyone using it could come onto this subreddit and get help fully replacing it with WordPress for a lot less cost in the long run, or hire a WordPress developer for the cost of 3-4 months of this and get a lot more out of it.
If you look on their list of features, a lot if it also revolves around managing user roles, blueprints for content – which one would create with a custom post type and advanced custom fields, and multilingual sites.
The company seems to be providing services to a lot of universities and local governments and the latter of those is going to be using public money, when they could have their internal team build on WordPress (so at little extra cost as those people are already on staff).
It’s not as if the user interface is markedly better than WordPress, especially once an admin (i.e. someone technical) hides pages or menu items for particular roles.
If anyone knows a reason why someone would use this expensive and niche CMS over WordPress, which is arguably a very good content management system already, please, let me know your thoughts.
Thank you.
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>If anyone knows a reason why someone would use this expensive and niche CMS over WordPress, which is arguably a very good content management system already, please, let me know your thoughts.
Really aggressive and targeted marketing
Plus you can throw the word “enterprise” in front of ANY piece of business related software and 10X your price.
For a person not familiar with running a large website, finding someone to hire to build such a thing out is a daunting task, it also an investment up front.
A company that comes in and says they can do it easy for a flat fee, you don’t have to worry about the how or the what, xyz institutions already are our clients and they say these nice things about us. Also they probably have some horror stories about open source/Wordpress
The company is also a person to yell at if things go down and provide support. Executives are usually risk averse and care more about not looking bad than saving money or improving things
Well for public contracts sometimes money really doesn’t matter in the same scale as it does for smaller companies that usually use WordPress. So maybe the the company just found the Goldilocks zone. Hard to say without knowing the degree of customization offered in their system, how well it integrates into other systems e.g. a University library or how it performs.
Also having a random but well built system is also a form of security. Since exploits are less public. Public institutions also tend to have special rules that private companies do not need to follow. E.g. could be forbidden for them to use a plug-in created by an outside provider (from Japan) for security reasons.
With that being said, it could also just be a rip off and people in charge don’t know better.