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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Duda

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADuda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.

    $25

    per month

    Percussion CMS

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/APercussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content.N/A
    Pricing
    DudaPercussion CMS
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25
    per month
    Team
    $39
    per month
    Agency
    $69
    per month
    White Label
    $199
    per month
    Custom
    Contact Sales
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DudaPercussion CMS
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    DudaPercussion CMS
    Considered Both Products
    Duda
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    Percussion Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    DudaPercussion CMS
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Duda and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Duda
    8.9
    4 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    3.0
    1 Ratings
    91% below category average
    Role-based user permissions8.94 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Duda and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Duda
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    153% below category average
    API9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.14 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Duda and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Duda
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    3.0
    1 Ratings
    88% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor9.14 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.94 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Admin section9.34 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Page templates7.94 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.34 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Form generator8.54 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Duda and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Duda
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    1.6
    1 Ratings
    128% below category average
    Content taxonomy8.74 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    SEO support8.64 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Bulk management8.64 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.24 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.84 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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    DudaPercussion CMS
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    Score6.8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DudaPercussion CMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DudaPercussion CMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Duda
    Duda is great for agencies. There is a good client management area. It's even good for small businesses. They can choose a template and build out their own site. It's easy to customizes a website from a barebones template. There are many customizations in the each widget. The pricing is good for all size businesses. There is no tech headache with updates and backups.
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    Best suited for large organizations where everyone knows how to deal with Java in an increasingly Java unfriendly world. Said organization should be willing to pay a huge price for a piece of dinosaur technology
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    Pros
    Duda
    • Very easy to learn and master
    • Builds beautiful, feature rich and easy to maintain cool websites
    • Provides an efficient management platform for agencies
    • Has a very good and responsive support team
    • Is continually expanding features and new add-on partners
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    • Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security
    • Highly scalable
    • Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc..
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Duda
    • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
    • A more robust app marketplace
    • More custom widgets
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    Percussion Software
    • One word: JAVA! We don't live in the 1990's anymore! An AJAX/DHTML environment seems a long time coming.
    • Horrible end-user experience, learning curve. Our end users' inability to easily use the archaic, Java-based interface, means they send the web developer their content requests. This creates a huge bottleneck and completely defeats the purpose of a CMS.
    • Image mangement and integration with content is aweful and time consuming. An image processing tool called ImedImage was developed for Percussion at one point, and left completely stagnant with very little support.
    • Implementation is extremely complicated, given the complexity of the system. Sure, scalability is a good thing, but there is very little out-of-the box function. Don't expect to implement a site as quickly as with other CMS platforms.
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    Usability
    Duda
    Again, this platform has to be one of the easiest web development sites I have ever used in my life. From creating pages to linking buttons, hiding pages, and more, it makes it so much easier to develop websites for clients, including forms and custom membership login portals. It really is the best.
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Duda
    I can't speak to why my agency selected Duda, but I can say from personal experience that building a website in Duda is much easier, and backed by better support than any other website builder I've used. Duda allows me, as a web designer, to still create great looking and unique websites. I find that other platforms, while they may provide nice templates, make it very difficult to deviate from the guardrails they put in place. Through the years, even the most basic site that I've built in Duda is significantly better than those built in other platforms
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    No contest. I can't wait to get off of Percussion CMS.
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    Return on Investment
    Duda
    • Much faster project turnaround
    • Easy for non-tech staff to handle some of the work
    • Costs are lower than we were paying for less capabilities before we switched to Duda
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    • We are locked into Percussion CMS simply due to the expense and complexity of migrating to another solution (and the lack of time and budget to do so). I long for the day when I am no longer required to support Percussion CMS, to say the least.
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