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Pros

Time-saving Tool: Users have found Cascade Server to be a valuable time-saving tool for monitoring stale content and broken links on their public site. They appreciate the automatic handling of version upgrades on the cloud, which has been lightning fast and only takes about half an hour to convert a site with a large number of assets.

Intuitive Permissions: Setting permissions in Cascade Server is described as intuitive and easy to set up at both high or granular levels. Many users have praised the CMS for its ability to track assets and links when moved, deleted, or renamed, as well as its capability for allowing relational publishing of all affected assets.

Great Integration with Third-Party Products: The integration of Cascade Server with third-party products such as Google Analytics, SiteImprove, and WebDam is highly valued by users. They specifically mention the excellent customer service provided by Hannon Hill, the company behind Cascade Server.

Cascade CMS Reviews

3 Reviews
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)

Cascade: Easy and Quick

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cascade Server is currently being used across our whole organization to provide support to an online journal. Our online journal is the main product of our organization and is hosted on a website that is completely reliant on Cascade Server. Therefore, editing our journal requires extensive knowledge of Cascade's features. The server allows our online journal to be thoroughly edited, from the placement of text in strategic locations on the webpage to the addition of images and graphics to enhance the look and credibility of our online journal, all the way to the addition of important documents to serve the journal's main functions. Cascade Server allows our online journal to be easily and quickly edited, reducing the time it takes to edit features on the webpage and adding important documents that need to be instantly added or removed due to the current state of the journal.

Pros

  • Cascade's display interface is very similar to the interface one uses to navigate the files in their computer. An experienced computer user should have no problems navigating through Cascade's interface to find webpages and files.
  • Creating new files and pages is as easy as finding the appropriate folder and hitting a couple of buttons. A new user can easily figure out how to create new files and folders without any training.
  • Cascade ensures that no two editors publish the same draft at the same time. When one is ready to publish a page, Cascade informs them if there is another draft of the page available to be published. This feature helps save unnecessary time and confusion that happens when more than one person is working on a webpage.

Cons

  • Although Cascade's interface allows for easy location of files, the font and folder sizes can sometimes make navigation and identification of files and folders uncomfortable to a user's eye.
  • Except for deleting and renaming files, Cascade does not allow for much editing of multiple files and/or webpages simultaneously. This can sometimes cost valuable work time.
  • Cascade does not have a clean and organized system for users to leave comments to each other and/or on specific webpages.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cascade's file management interface is very similar to an operating system's file management interface. In other words, navigating through Cascade Server's files and folders is as easy to do as navigating through one's computer's files and folders. A new Cascade user should be able to easily locate files and webpages without much formal training, if any.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Online Media company, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Cascade CMS
2 years of experience

Cascade Server review by student

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cascade Server as a content management tool for managing the websites for the Purdue University College of Science. There are several departments within this reach (Math, Stats, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Computer Sc.), plus the College of Science itself. We manage their websites according to their requests of new information, new design of their websites, or delete old information. Furthermore, we also look for broken links and errors by making use of another software called InSite, and try to fix them. Mostly, we manipulate the individual web pages to include new information by using their HTML scripts. There are only around 5-7 of use in charge of using this system for the College of Science, three of them being full-time, and the others including me being part-time since we are students.

Pros

  • Content addition including pictures, text, video
  • Template creation common across various pages, thereby greatly reducing time
  • Making header and footer blocks
  • Managing the left and right panes

Cons

  • Individual pages need to load faster
  • Publish message sometimes takes a long time to be pushed across all machines, perhaps increase the speed of the publish message
  • There is a problem with the hierarchy of the publish message pages, in other words, we have to publish the individual pages before publishing the page that calls them. This is a little confusing. Perhaps this could be addressed.

Likelihood to Recommend

Some key questions to ask about Cascade Server are:

1. Is it easy to pick up?
2. Is it reliable?
3. Does it ever crash? If yes, how easy is it to recover?
PK
Pranjit Kalita
Website Upgradation and Management in Information Technology at Purdue University College of Science (Education Management, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Cascade CMS
1 year of experience

Cascade server simple yet decent tool for a CMS.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's being used by a department to manage our webpage.

Pros

  • Easy Interface
  • Simple and an relate to HTML
  • Short learning curve

Cons

  • Well for starters the hierarchy implementation is a bit of pain
  • Secondly, changing a link, we need to make sure other places referencing the link isn't broken

Likelihood to Recommend

Is the business large scale or small scale? How frequent are the changes? It is specific content to be maintained by the people who create it – no more sending information off to be put online by a different person or department. Cascade Server is easy to use and accessible from any standard web browser, letting you focus on what’s really important – actually creating and managing the content.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (Warehousing company, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Cascade CMS
1 year of experience