Sitecore Experience Platformの評判・口コミ 全2件

What do you dislike?

The UX is a nightmare. Sitecore uses the Microsoft ribbon menu style, along with a desktop metaphor. It's overkill. Images are stored in one folder with randomized names, so their filenames are irrational. The versioning system is convoluted. The approval system is so convoluted that I've often resorted to screenshots and email instead.

What do you like best?

You can eventually bend Sitecore to your will, but it isn't easy. It punishes you for knowing what you're doing, yet doesn't make things easy for non-developers. It's not the worst CMS I've ever used, but it's close.

What do you dislike?

The software is horrible. Perhaps it was our installation, but if a product is that hard to implement and install, then it cannot be considered very user friendly. It can take hours for us to publish one change on the website, and then it usually fails and we have to start over from the beginning. The media library is atrocious, and the .aspx file extensions make everything unnecessarily complicated. The templating system is a disaster and we are praying that we can switch to Wordpress.

What do you like best?

We were promised a lot of bells and whistles with Sitecore. They offer training, which we did send an employee to, which is nice. There is apparently the ability to perform remarketing and advanced scripting.

Recommendations to others considering the product

A recommended installer

What do you dislike?

It's complex, not really user friendly and not easy to learn.

Its an heavy tool, meaning that when you want to deploy a SiteCore solution, it can't be done like if you want to deploy a Wordpress Blog. It requires a lot of parameters, a dedicated IT company to manage the dev project, a team in your company to handle the project as well, and time.

The probably most disliked aspect of SiteCore is its user interface. Old fashion, and too complex, it's a real cons for users used to do everything on nice interfaces.

There are pros and cons, but SiteCore should be considered only for big Websites and for companies with large internal IT and Communication team.

Lastly, the cost. It's not free at all. In addition to the IT external company needed to setup the initial solution as well as to do any update, the SiteCore licence itself is expensive.

What do you like best?

SiteCore is a big machine.

This tool is one of the heaviest and expandable CMS (Content Management System) I've been working on. Everything car be done but requires most of the time specific developments. It means that a SiteCore project costs a lot.

If your Company has a Website Project, eCommerce, Corporate and so on, SiteCore is an option.

What I like the best in SiteCore is its flexibility. Nothing is fixed. Your solution can always be improved through many assistants. And if standard CMS features doesn't fill your needs, then your can explore Marketing extension, search engine optimisation options, emailing system add-ons and much more.

The roles management is also very very powerful. You can fine tune each profile or manage them by group.

One of the best feature we are using is the font end page editor. In it, a user with the correct rights will be able to place, within an predefine layout, components in different place-holders. It's very very convenient as soon as you need to add new pages with specific contents.

To finish, i would say that SiteCore is not easy to learn to use but it serve the purpose. There are too many features to being able to describe them, but the key I appreciate are are there.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Think twice before to jump into SiteCore. As such, this solution is most of the time, deployed via a 3rd party IT company. Ask advises and compare with other similar solution. Keep in mind that SiteCore is not a user friendly CMS.

What do you dislike?

The price is definitely a con for sitecore, as CMSes such as joomla can be acquired for free. We also offer services for Umbraco and Kentico since they can be purchased for reduced rates, for our smaller clients that don't need something as robust and inclusive as sitecore. I'm also not a fan of sitecore buckets, as it feels incredibly disorganized and forces the user to rely heavily on the search functionality within sitecore to find content.

What do you like best?

I love the way sitecore is organized, and I especially love the easy to use dashboard in sitecore 8. The experience editor allows users who are not technically inclined to easily manage their content on a page by page basis, and the content manager itself lets users delve into their content a little deeper if they so choose. Sitecore seems very customizable too, which is a great feature for websites with very specific requirements or needs. The marketing area of sitecore, when utilized properly, can allow for content to be switched out due to certain parameters and experience editor allows a user to perform a/b variant testing which can be quite useful. Overall, there's a lot to love about sitecore, but it may be overkill for one's needs based on what kind of business and website they're looking to run. Have I mentioned sitecore's security role flexibility? There's a task flow that can be customized for creating content, so that a user who creates or edits content can be prevented from making that content live until an administrator approves. I've seen this utilized with larger companies who have strict review policies in place regarding content. Additionally, their versioning has only gotten stronger with each new version of sitecore. Versions of content pages in sitecore can be useful for restoring old content, seeing where content went wrong, but also for having different language versions of content for multilingual sites.

Recommendations to others considering the product

As stated before, sitecore is a very robust tool, and as such, its pricing can differ. It's very important to gather and analyze the needs and requirements of the company before deciding what level of service to purchase. For example, if the company doesn't have a focused marketing department, it might not be worth the time and money to focus on the marketing tools within sitecore. Some websites may use third party forms and not require setup and development for web forms for marketers, etc.

What do you dislike?

They can sometimes focus too much on the "added extra" of the marketing functions, whereas for their main clients (enterprises with budget) many of them have Marketo/Eloqua etc, and therefore dont need this functionality. At this point integration into these systems is more limited.

Sitecore is also very expensive to develop - not a cheap option for a website!!!

What do you like best?

Sitecore is a powerful CMS, that works well in an enterprise environment with a great ability to customize and integrate into your marketing efforts. If you've got the budget for this its great - a very powerful system, and getting better with newer releases.

Recommendations to others considering the product

check development costs & how you'll upgrade to new versions

What do you dislike?

Although Sitecore is powerful, it's also clunky and way too much of a system for a smaller company to use. I have used several different CMS systems, and Sitecore is probably one of the most challenging. If you don't use a process with several steps for adding, editing and approving content, you are left with several seemingly unnecessary steps to complete. Adding a new page or image takes several clicks. Depending on the browser used, I have seen issues where certain functionality isn't accessible, or areas of the admin portal are greyed out. This could of course be only in the environment I use, but it does seem a bit finicky at times.

What do you like best?

It's extremely powerful. Sitecore has functionality to allow a large company to have multiple users making modifications with intricate security and permissions. You can also have multiple languages and globalisation of a website for use with global companies. Adding new pages is easy, along with editing and making modifications to existing pages. From this aspect, it's pretty quick and easy for someone to learn how to modify their website.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Do your research. Find out if this product is truly the right product for your company. It's a powerful beast, but make sure it's the beast you actually need. Also, if you don't have someone in house that knows Sitecore, you will need to use company to help with any cosmetic changes needed.

What do you dislike?

It could probably be more flexible and allow more changes.

What do you like best?

Sitecore makes it easy for everybody to be involved in our content management, not just our developers.

This allows us to implement best practices across all of our web properties.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Identify your current pain points and bring them up with your representative.

Make sure that all types of users (admins, end-users, developers) have their feedback considered.

What do you dislike?

I don't like how long it takes to do everything. Compared to other CMS platforms I've used, it is very difficult to navigate. Publishing a page a long series of steps for example. Everything takes a long time to do.

What do you like best?

I like the customization and the enterprise feel. Seems like there is a lot of expansion capability.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Be purposeful in your planning - you really need to make sure you know what you want going in to take advantage of the right features.

What do you dislike?

Navigating between the Content Editor and the Media Library can be a bit cumbersome at times.

What do you like best?

The organization of the CMS is top notch. There is an ability to easily create detailed folders for content and media organization.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Sitecore has very impressive clients using their platforms and can handle an immense amount of content.