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Agility

Score6.2 out of 10

22 Reviews and Ratings

What is Agility?

Agility CMS is a cloud-based content management system from the company of the same name in Toronto, Ontario.

Media

Agility's Sitemaps, where editors can manage multiple content destinations within a single Instance.
Agility's publication scheduling, used to plan content in advance and schedule when content should automatically publish or un-publish.
The Digital Assets Manager, used to organize assets within Folders and Sub-Folders.
Agility's Marketplace: An Agility App is a self-contained micro-site that can provide specific visual functionality, connect to external systems, and even do background processing.

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Agility CMS - One Stop for All Your CMS needs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Agility CMS's modelling feature is very intuitive and easy in user point of view. There is no limit to the number of content models. Built in premium functions which will make the end-user easy to working with. The UI is very easy to navigate and the features are easily accessible. The support from the support team whenever we are stuck is very impressive and they have all the knowledge that is required to tackle issues we face.

Pros

  • Unlimited Content Modules which are extremely helpful for file management .
  • Unlimited number of API and Asset Requests
  • File management among the CMS is extraordinarily useful as a hosting tool native to our web content

Cons

  • Pricing - I think pricing should be reviewed according to features that are required.
  • Allowing Collaborating Tools integration would help a lot.
  • No other suggestions so far, will update if any.

Return on Investment

  • Increased productivity and less dependency on multiple resources.
  • One stop for all CMS activities which has reduced cost of procuring other tools.
  • Less downtime since the support team and technical team always at our finger tips when needed.

Other Software Used

Kontent.ai, Kentico Xperience, HubSpot CMS Hub

Agility CMS - Content creation and delivery at lightning speeds

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Working with a lot financial institutions, we are in constant need to present the latest and greatest to our existing customers, prospective customers and considering we work for B2B, we also need to cater content for our B2C customers.

Agility CMS makes it very easy for us when we bring in interns to help develop and distribute contents - Agility CMS providers do not dictate about how content is presented. We have out own templates defined and the team can get started right from there.

Pros

  • Ability to plan personalized contents
  • Ability to use webhooks and custom logic to create our own content
  • Ability to setup regionsa and locales for our contents

Cons

  • Search function is limited

Return on Investment

  • Helps get contents updated and shared very quickly
  • Ability to have team work based on standard templates ensures content presentation is inline with organizational standards
  • Lack of DB and templates makes it easier for interns to come onboard and develop contents - this is super cost effective

Alternatives Considered

Assai and Atlassian Confluence

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Zoho CRM

Agility CMS need more test.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Agility tries to provide a solution that is based on structuring and converting content and delivering digital content. In theory, according to Agility, it would save design time and improve the user experience. My role was to evaluate CMS for a large consulting firm that specializes in providing different types of services to sectors such as Banking, Telco, Retail, and industry. The objective of the evaluation is to find the omnichannel experience with the minimal use of re-coding.

Pros

  • Flexibility platform.
  • Interface editing very easy.
  • Solid platform.

Cons

  • Limited functionality for rebuild layout pages.
  • Need better wysiwyg editor.
  • Large time to load and save.
  • Bugs in the app need to be corrected.

Return on Investment

  • I can not answer it is really have a good ROI because the firm was not use many times.
  • The firm start to using in the 2023 in 2 projects and it is like a test for Agility.
  • I think that complex problems will help save time and money, but at this moment, I can not quantify it.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Experience Manager and Drupal

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, monday.com, Salesforce CMS

Great product information managment tool

Pros

  • Store and organize your product data
  • The AMI (admin space) is very easy to learn
  • Easy to export information

Cons

  • Massive import updates
  • Image storage

Return on Investment

  • Every piece of data now has its place
  • You can easily consult or extract any information you want
  • We plugged the info into our website and it automatically updates

Alternatives Considered

HubSpot CMS Hub and Salesforce CMS

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Atlassian Confluence, Wrike, Magento Commerce, part of Adobe Commerce Cloud

Efficient content management with Agility CMS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our data and analytics community is ever-growing. We were looking forward to creating a portal through which this global community reaches out to larger business and showcase how analytics and insights help them with their day-to-day. This was supposed to be an internal portal but reaches across the width and depth of the organization. Agility CMS was one of the strong contenders for CMS suites that provided relevant editorial, development, and security features at competitive pricing.

Pros

  • Page management
  • Ease of publishing (batch publishing, device support)
  • Strong CDN (Fastly based)
  • Customer support

Cons

  • Compatibility with servers can be improved
  • Support on Android devices
  • Coverage for Asian language support

Return on Investment

  • Improved reach of our department
  • Community building
  • Driving innovation
  • Operational efficiencies

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Experience Platform, dotCMS and Oracle CX Content

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Teams, Alteryx