#1 most frequent
United States of America
51.8%1,713 installations of 3,305
What is Contentful?
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
Categories & Use Cases
Media
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Top Performing Features
Community / comment management
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
Category average: 7.4
Code quality / cleanliness
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
Category average: 8.3
Availability / breadth of extensions
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
Category average: 6.9
Areas for Improvement
WYSIWYG editor
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
Category average: 7.9
Form generator
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Category average: 7.1
SEO support
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
Category average: 7.5
Who Buys & Uses Contentful
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8.8%290 installations of 3,305
#3 most frequent
Canada
6.1%202 installations of 3,305
Content with Contentful
Pros
- Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
- Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
- Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
Cons
- Licensing. There is no way to step up from free gracefully over time. It is free or pay big $$
- Internal search is horribly lacking and thus extending site search using their product fails in comparison to other products.
Return on Investment
- Agile workflow
- Empowered Teams
- Reusable content
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Bloomreach Experience Platform (brX), Adobe Experience Manager and Sitecore Experience Manager
Other Software Used
GitHub, Jira Software, WebStorm
A bit of work upfront can save time/money down the road
Pros
- Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
- Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
- Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).
Cons
- The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
- The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
- It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
Return on Investment
- Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
- Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
- Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.
Alternatives Considered
WordPress
Other Software Used
Oracle Java SE, GitHub, Eclipse
Contentful- easy to use!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Contentful has been used this year to assist in compiling specific images to utilize in vast quantities from sellers. It has made accessing the images easy and straightforward versus having to rely on a multitude of different platforms or email communications. I would recommend this platform for multi user businesses.
Pros
- Organization
- Ease of use
- Clear to understand
Cons
- Multilevel user accounts causes delay
- Single sign on would be useful
Return on Investment
- Allowed us to quickly act on new listings
- Clear and concise work flow
- Easy to use
Alternatives Considered
Dropbox and Google Drive
Other Software Used
Khoros Marketing, Khoros Care, Khoros Communities
Contentful to manage all the digital content effectively
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It helped to create content layer of our digital business. It also helped the marketing globally with the help of localization. It is useful when one wants to create reusable digital content. Simplifies content coordination and distribution across various channels. Provides role-based access management and workflows, and also ensures content is discoverable.
Pros
- Role based access management to the content
- Assembling and publishing of content
- Library of shared content models
Cons
- Integrations with different apps
- APIs can be more efficient
- Platform can become more user-friendly
Return on Investment
- There was no negative impact as such.
- Positive impact is increase in sales.
- More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
Other Software Used
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access
Modern content manager in a changing digital world
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
To work with multiple platforms, Contenful allows me to manage unified content and publish it through my organization's platforms, making it easier for me to have a single point of control and change. Being a web platform, being able to work from anywhere or any device and keeping my website, e-commerce and internal sales platform updated, has been the most beneficial for the organization.
Pros
- A single point of control to update my different trading platforms
- Being able to build and publish content easily, agilely and quickly
Cons
- I could improve the documentation for an adaptation to the platform
- Improve content migration between traditional platforms to Contentful
Return on Investment
- Being a subscription service, the return has been immediate by being able to use what is necessary. Positive from a financial point of view
