Plone CMS Overview

Plone CMS delivers a stable and secure content management experience, leveraging over two decades of development. Businesses benefit from its open-source nature, ensuring flexibility and adaptability to specific needs. Plone 6 enhances user experience with a modern interface, supporting efficient content creation and management. Its strong security track record makes it a reliable choice for enterprises prioritizing data protection. The community-driven development model ensures continuous improvements and support, fostering collaboration and innovation. Plone's capability to handle complex content structures suits organizations requiring robust content workflows and management solutions.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Content Management, Workflow Management, Sending & Publishing Communications, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Plone CMS.

Other use cases:

  • Collaboration
  • Knowledge Management
  • Community Building
  • Helpdesk Management
  • Public Relations
  • Training & Onboarding
  • Generation Of New Leads
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Business Priorities

Acquire Customers and Enhance Customer Relationships are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Plone CMS.

Other priorities:

  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Improve Efficiency
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Plone CMS Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Plone CMS works with different mediums / channels such as Website. and Video.

Plone CMS's features include Templates, Personalization, and Widgets. and Plone CMS support capabilities include 24/7 Support, AI Powered, Chat Support, etc. also Plone CMS analytics capabilities include Custom Reports, and Analytics.

Reviews

"...It is also well positioned to be used as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool...." Peer review

Peer review evidence (same sources as the product rating summary)

"...The Plone Content Management System (CMS/DMS) already provides a build in fast live search...." Search Implementation On A Website Difficult?
"...Flexible workflows...." Peer review by Jussi Talaskivi, Information Systems Analyst, University of Jyväskylä
"...The Onkopedia portal publishes medical guidelines for oncology and hematology for Germany, Austria and Switzerland - treatment guidelines, medical studies, protocols, certifications, drug information, etc. for over 60 diseases...." Plone and the Pandemic

Plone CMS, Adobe Creative Cloud, Wordable, Chanty, Pics.io, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Content Management Systems. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Plone CMS is an open-source, enterprise-level content management system known for its 20 years of stability and security. Plone 6 offers a modern, user-centric experience.

Popular Business Setting

for Plone CMS

Top Industries

  • Information Technology and Services
  • Computer Software
  • Education

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Plone CMS is popular in Information Technology And Services, Computer Software, and Education and is widely used by Small Business, Mid Market, and Enterprise.

Plone CMS Customer wins, Customer success stories, Case studies

How does Plone CMS address your Content Management Challenges?

Why is Plone CMS the best choice for Workflow Management?

What Are the key features of Plone CMS for Sending & Publishing Communications?

How does Plone CMS address your Collaboration Challenges?

What benefits does Plone CMS offer for Knowledge Management?

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Plone CMS solved their Content Management Systems needs. Cuspera uses 443 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Content Management Systems needs.

University of Louisville - Education - Large

Plone helps the University of Louisville manage web content for nearly 200 departments. The web team uses Plone to deploy and support a large infrastructure. They guide departments in setting up and ...using Plone sites. The case study explains their deployment process, support structure, and hardware. It also discusses challenges and future plans for their content management system.

 

HORN + HORN - Construction - Small

Germany

Plone 6 helped HORN + HORN modernize their intranet in 2023. The old system was slow and rarely used. The new platform made it easy to find and preview over 1,000 PDF documents. Team members can now ...use wikis, fast search, and simple filters. This improved knowledge sharing and teamwork across their offices.

 

Kent Connects - Government Administration - Large

Kent, UK

Kent Connects used Plone to build an information sharing portal for 17 public organizations in Kent and Medway. The portal lets partners securely share documents, agendas, and minutes online. It supp...orts collaboration between local authorities, police, and fire services. The solution is flexible and easy to use. The portal improved joint working and information access across the region.

 

Mack Palomäki - Small

Mack Palomäki joined the Bucharest Plone Sprint as a beginner aiming to deploy several Plone sites. He learned to install Plone 6, integrate Nick with Volto, and set up multilingual support for Engli...sh and Swedish. The sprint community helped him overcome technical hurdles, especially with internationalization and Slate editor addons. Mack left with a working site and a plan to improve Swedish translations and documentation for Plone. His experience highlights Plone’s supportive community and the challenges of multilingual site setup.

Day 1 Track 1 - Breaking boundaries: Plone as headless CMS

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Peers used Plone CMS for content management and workflow management

Plone CMS Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.00/5

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Custom Reports

3.58/5

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Analytics

3.57/5

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.00/5

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Custom Reports

3.58/5

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Analytics

3.57/5

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Plone News

Company

Plone CMS stops supply-chain attack - Risky Business Newsletters

Plone CMS successfully thwarted a supply-chain attack where a threat actor inserted malicious code into its repositories. The attack was detected before any official release, and the malicious code was removed. The incident involved a compromised developer's GitHub token, leading to security enhancements by Plone, including disabling risky Git operations.

Plone Profile

Company Name

Plone

Company Website

https://plone.org/

Year Founded

2000

HQ Location

Employees

11-50

Social

Financials

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