Contentful Composable Content Platform

My main use case for Contentful  is building websites and managing the content. We have a public facing website where we showcase our products and offerings to people, and all of that content, images, and everything is managed through Contentful .

The best features Contentful offers include the Rich Text editor, the linking, the images, pages, and templates. I rely heavily on the Rich Text editor because that is where I create customized components. For example, Rich Text lets us paste images and links, and based on the JSON response structure we receive from Contentful with the GraphQL query, we know the structure of it, which helps render specific components on the screen, such as a banner that will have background images, buttons, and text, and the same goes for the slider and carousel.

Contentful has impacted my organization positively because the business is able to change the content without the help of a developer, and they can make a deployment very easily. This has led to measurable outcomes, such as a faster time-to-market and reduced workload for developers.

I think Contentful can be improved in several ways. Sometimes the linking is challenging. If you are using too many links, then it is actually making the application deployment time longer, so Contentful needs to figure out a way to solve that problem. Additionally, cost-wise, I feel our organization thinks it is too much because we were planning to use Contentful for our global site, which has four languages support, and for each language, we need to create different spaces. If Contentful could allow us to add the four languages in one go, that would be great.

I have been using Contentful for the last two years.

Contentful is stable.

Contentful's scalability is good.

The customer support for Contentful is good.

Previously, we used an on-premise based Content Management System, which was Adobe AEM, and we changed to Contentful because of faster deployment and evolving technologies.

I would say we have seen a return on investment because the cost in the infrastructure got saved. Contentful is a platform offering that manages the infrastructure for us, resulting in savings in terms of infrastructure.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that mostly, a developer will not be managing those aspects, but from my point of view, Contentful is a bit pricey.

I rate Contentful an eight on a scale of one to ten. My advice for others looking into using Contentful is to go for it. I have no additional thoughts about Contentful before we wrap up. My overall rating for this review is eight.

My main use case for Contentful  is for migrating our Oracle ATG  server into Contentful  as a migration project.

During that migration project, we created multiple content types and developed a custom app where we map the ATG  server code to our content types. We used that mapping to import the particular content to Contentful.

After the migration, we used this particular content for the website, specifically for our client Sephora, where we utilized all this content.

Contentful offers many best features including Preview, Custom Apps, migrations, Merge  App, and workflows.

We used the preview feature whenever we wanted to see how particular content looks, and at that time we ran our server locally and tested it. Additionally, we used custom apps for building bulk editors and multiple features where we could reuse some of the code.

Contentful has positively impacted my organization as it has been a major breakthrough. The producers can automatically update their content without relying on developers, which is really helpful for the producers.

I could say we saved around 60% of the time for developers. Previously, we maintained all the content, but now producers handle that, which allows developers and producers to publish their content immediately when they want to update it.

Contentful needs to be improved for migration, not only for migration, but from lower to higher environments as well, as the schema diffs and everything are not working as expected. Improving the CI/CD pipelines would be greatly helpful, and it could build similar capabilities to Builder.io for enhanced growth when using Contentful.

I have been using Contentful for more than five years.

Contentful is stable.

Contentful is scalable. We can scale the application to any level we want without any problems regarding scalability.

Customer support is good. There are three levels of support available, and level one support resolves issues within 15 minutes to one hour.

We previously used ATG Oracle Cloud , which is too old and requires developers to handle the cloud architecture and content, leading to our migration to Contentful.

I have seen a return on investment. Previously, we used to have 10 developers for the ATG Oracle cloud, but for Contentful, we only need two developers, and once it is streamlined, producers can handle everything without the need for developers.

I evaluated Strapi , but Strapi  requires everything to be done by the developer only, including in-house premises and deployments, while Contentful allows us to do everything on the fly.

Others looking into using Contentful can use it seamlessly without relying on any other deployments. Everything is present in Contentful itself, and any custom apps can also be deployed within Contentful without needing separate servers.

My main use case for Contentful is optimizing images and videos. While people use Contentful to build websites, Contentful does not provide an inbuilt image and video optimizer. ImageKit fills this gap, allowing people who use Contentful to optimize their images and providing a digital asset management solution inside the Contentful UI itself. That is the kind of integration I am working with in Contentful.

I have a website and want to optimize my images and videos using Contentful to build that website, which is very easy. I can use my own frontend and then use the API to build that website, while also integrating ImageKit, which is my current organization. It is a mixture of these two approaches.

The best features Contentful offers are its APIs and how easy it is to integrate them. Feature-wise, the majority of CMSs are the same; I have used Strapi, and feature-wise, those are similar. The ease of use and the way Contentful provides the APIs and how easy it is to fetch the data directly and use it in your frontend is the best part. I have not explored many features, having mostly built a basic web page, so there could be features that I am not aware of, but the ones I have used were quite intuitive and easier to use.

Contentful's impact on my organization is that we do not use it very much. Contentful has not helped my organization or our customers achieve any measurable benefits, such as saving time or improving workflows, as we have not measured that. It does help customers who are using Contentful, but I have not quantified it.

Contentful works well for me; I might need to explore it a bit more to identify improvements. As I mentioned, I have been using it for a specific task, which it accomplishes quite well. I built a web page and integrated ImageKit successfully, so it works well in that way. Perhaps in the future, I can provide more feedback for this question.

I have been using Contentful for around a year, mostly integrating it with my current company, ImageKit, which is an image CDN and image and video CDN, and that integrates well with Contentful. That is how I started working on Contentful.

Contentful is stable in my experience; it is quite stable. The UI works well, as I did not encounter any issues with it and the APIs seem to work without problems.

I have not scaled Contentful to that level, so I would not be able to comment, but I would assume it is scalable.

I have not had any experience with customer support, as I managed to figure out the majority of things using the documentation and other resources. Therefore, I did not need to reach out for support.

I have used multiple solutions before Contentful because I work with many customers using different systems. I have used WordPress, Magento, Shopify, Strapi, and then Contentful. Strapi and Contentful stand out to me because they are next-generation CMSs, where the APIs and functionality are much easier to understand. It is JavaScript-based, making it a very easy way to start building websites. While I have not switched away from others, I see a definite improvement compared to WordPress and other traditional CMS systems.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I did not use the price plan; I was using the free plan, which did what I wanted it to do. Therefore, I cannot comment on the cost. The setup was easy, which I think would be the same even for the free plan and the pricing plan, but since I have not used the paid tier, I cannot speak on it.

I was using the free plan which did what I wanted it to do. Therefore, I cannot comment on the cost.

I have seen a return on investment with Contentful, as it definitely saves time. Even if someone is not technical, they can provide a structure, and then someone from the technical team can pull data. Contentful gives a lot of control in terms of what you want, allowing even non-technical people to contribute positively. As a SaaS, it also helps significantly since you do not need to host it and deal with associated complexities.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I did not use the price plan; I was using the free plan, which did what I wanted it to do.

Contentful works well for me; I might need to explore it a bit more to identify improvements. As I mentioned, I have been using it for a specific task, which it accomplishes quite well. I built a web page and integrated ImageKit successfully, so it works well in that way. Perhaps in the future, I can provide more feedback for this question.

Contentful has not helped my organization or our customers achieve any measurable benefits, such as saving time or improving workflows, as we have not measured that. It does help customers who are using Contentful, but I have not quantified it.

My advice to others looking into using Contentful is to definitely try it because if they have a use case of providing some sort of tool for their non-technical people to build things, Contentful stands out. I have used Strapi, which can be a little more technical and tougher for people to understand. Contentful, in contrast, enables non-technical users to build things while their technical team can then integrate it.

I would rate my overall experience with Contentful as a 7 out of 10.