This is a summary of our recent experience of comparing content management systems at the £10,000 price point. In this case we have compared the Ektron CMS400.net content management system with the Episerver 5 content management system.
Overview of features
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Episerver 5 |
Ektron 8 |
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Custom pages/page templates |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
No - but maybe added as a page template |
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Sitemap |
Yes |
No - but maybe added as a page template |
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Yes |
No |
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Yes |
No - but maybe added as a page template |
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Yes |
No - but maybe added as a page template |
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Yes |
No - but maybe added as a page template |
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Configurable forms |
Yes – by the addition of xform templates |
Yes – configurable via cms workarea |
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File library |
Yes – file manager without version history |
Yes –with version history |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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No- but maybe added as a module or by adding Demo page templates to cms. |
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No- but maybe added as a module or by adding Demo page templates to cms. |
No |
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Blog |
No- but maybe added as a module or by adding Demo page templates to cms. |
Yes – complete with ability to disable/enable comments, moderation, and/or authentication. Also comes with blog roll/calendar. |
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Portal page / Web parts
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Yes as a module |
Yes as a template |
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Workroom |
No- but maybe added as a module or by adding Demo page templates to cms. |
No |
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RSS |
Yes |
Only on blog content |
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Multiple site navigations/menus |
No – all pages need to make up part of the site’s taxonomy which then form part of the site’s navigation unless |
Yes – multiple menus that maybe configured that links to content and/or pages built using pagebuilder |
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Yes |
Yes – via configurable smart form |
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Web alerts ( subscribing members are alerting when cms content is added or updated ) |
No |
Yes |
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Workflow |
Yes |
Yes |
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Scheduled publishing of content |
Yes |
Yes |
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