OpenText Web CMS vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Web CMS
Score 5.0 out of 10
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OpenText Web CMS (TeamSite) accelerates and simplifies the end-to-end digital content and campaign lifecycle, from content creation and rich media management to omnichannel publication, optimization, automation, commerce, and community. According to the vendor, with TeamSite, users can: Capture diverse digital audiences with amazing brand experiences – Give customers and prospects consistent, high-quality brand experiences across devices and channels, and foster closer…N/A
WordPress VIP
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
OpenText Web CMSWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText Web CMSWordPress VIP
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OpenText Web CMSWordPress VIP
Features
OpenText Web CMSWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Web CMS
8.6
Ratings
6% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.60 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Web CMS
7.9
Ratings
4% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
Ratings
4% below category average
API8.70 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.20 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Web CMS
8.0
Ratings
4% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG editor7.80 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness7.70 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Admin section8.10 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Page templates7.40 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Library of website themes8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.30 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.10 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Form generator8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Web CMS
7.9
Ratings
7% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Content taxonomy7.90 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Bulk management8.20 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.50 Ratings9.10 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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User Ratings
OpenText Web CMSWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
3.6
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText Web CMSWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenText TeamSite is well-suited to large, enterprise-wide implementations where customization, content governance, and dynamic content distribution is needed or prioritized. It is probably not ideal for smaller sites with simple architecture and few resources to manage custom implementation.
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WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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Pros
  • Offering compelling experiences to customers, which help in improving satisfaction
  • Information is delivered across multiple channels
  • Testing relevant result sets to improve the rate of website conversion
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  • Email support is more than enough! They are quick and always responsive even when there are urgent problems.
  • Manages our WordPress codebase for security patches and updates rather well.
  • Their partnership with our development team has helped us be hands-off with confidence when it comes to fixing any bugs.
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Cons
  • I have recommendation for improvements.
  • It is easy to work with all the features.
  • All necessary content management tools are included.
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  • Too many different dashboard formats
  • Everything should have the same look and feel.
  • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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Likelihood to Renew
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It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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Usability
Overall, it's a solid package with the potential to offer much functionality with appropriate resources applied. There are a few issues with the authoring interface that OpenText should address before its a top shelf authoring experience.
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There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
Our technical resources engage with OpenText TeamSite so I don't have direct experience. However, critical issues that we need help with seem to get the attention they deserve without issue. However, training and user resources for business owner roles are a bit lacking and some annoying issues with the authoring interface should be addressed sooner.
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There wasn't a single problem that wouldn't be solved by the WordPress VIP support team, and I had quite a few questions during the process. They were always available and provided in-depth expertise on topics I was interested in. I not only consulted problems with them but also advised on future actions - in general, I'd highly recommend getting in touch.
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Alternatives Considered
It offers more content editing features at a relatively low cost thus overall deployment is lower in cost. It has great customer support who are always there to support and answer to our needs thus making the process of deployment seamless at every stage and offering training for working with their product.
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It would be fair to say that both are superb products that follow through on promises and have very strong marketing and teams behind them. For truly enterprise organisations though, one would be tempted to recommend WordPress VIP at this moment in time, but one to keep an eye on, Engine, is extremely capable.
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Return on Investment
  • We integrated with google analytics, now we have the proper comprehension of our audience data reception and behaviors - we've greatly improved on personalized marketing.
  • Quick publication of content across the main digital channels.
  • We run our digital campaigns swiftly.
  • We've maintained our brand consistency for three years.
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  • By migrating our mobile applications to Wordpress's APIs, we could remove a large portion of our technical infrastructure, which was hosted on Google Cloud, along with an additional database and a lot of business logic used to support data transformation and ingestion.
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