Contentstack Adaptive Digital Experience Platform
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A new journey with ContentStack
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, scalable, making web publishing and ongoing maintenance very easy!
What do you dislike about the product?
We ran into a few technical difficulties but was supported by the team and the issues have been resolved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementation of web publishing standards across various business on the continent. Due to a solid implementation it is easy and fast to roll out new sites, new pages and maintenance and updates to web pages arent a challenge any more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do you research and have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve with a CMS but ContentStack will most likely be a suitable solution.
Best headless CMS I have worked with.
What do you like best about the product?
API and web hook to create a json file in s3.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing comes in mind. If we have had a issue, they have implemented it as feature request.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As we have 12 locale, and 16 language this was the best CMS to help us with that.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a good CMS for many locale and powerful API.
Very easy to use for content management
What do you like best about the product?
I've used many content management systems (perhaps about 15 or so in the course of the last decade, both custom and widely known), and I find Contentstack to be very clearly laid out. I especially appreciate the ability to stage content. Far too many management systems rely on edits being remedied post-publishing, and occasionally the previews are not as accurately reflective of the live content as I'd like them to be envisioned.
What do you dislike about the product?
Occasionally I am unable to add a certain time to a blog post, but it fixes itself when I refresh. That's the only trouble I've run into. I'm not sure about the breadth of capabilities with Contentstack, but I'd be curious to know whether or not it's possible to have built-in metrics about view, links clicked, or other similar metrics to use for content strategy or implementing other improvements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm not sure if the question directly applies to how our company uses it, since there's no distinctive problem but rather a need. I help create and build content, and the primary benefit is speed -- it's easy to save, make changes, or publish a draft to both staging and to go live.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend Contentstack for straightforward publishing. As I understand it, it is easy to add fields as needed, which is not a feature often offered or easily implemented on the backend. Though I don't handle the technical aspects of adding the fields, it does not appear to be a big ask to do so.
Powerful, Modern CMS
What do you like best about the product?
Content Management Systems have come a long way but Contentstack and heacless CMS have taken it one step further. With the decoupling of the authoring and presentation layers, the front-end engineers and content managers have truly become independent of each other and can get content to their users faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with any CMS, content managers and developers are working in opposite directions. In order to resolve this longstanding issue with CMS, it is valuable for a platform like Contentstack to make such changes be able to propagate seamlessly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Content consistency across environments; ease of use from business user and content manager perspective,
Flexible and responsive with great support
What do you like best about the product?
Good support for integration w/ strong API
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI is occasionally cumbersome to use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business being able to easily change and localise content without developer intervention.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a headless CMS with excellent API and robust support then ContentStack is a good fit.
Takes a bit to implement but worth it
What do you like best about the product?
We used to require a full time engineer to make even small changes to our site. Using contentstack we were able to turn all our pages into flexible templates so the marketing team can now make virtually all changes on our own, freeing up engineering headcount and making us way faster and more nimble.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's pricey and requires a lot of technical expertise to implement. Once it's done though it's quite flexible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have our whole website on Contentstack and have ported over all our web pages into templates. We no longer rely on engineering to build or edit pages.
I would definitely recommend the concept a headless CMS to a friend or colleague.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to access huge amounts of data that would have otherwise been difficult to access.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still areas of the site that are still being developed, and improvements are constantly being made. Although this is a good thing, it can be a frustrating experience developing schema for a new and better feature to appear e.g. Modular blocks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Definitely being able to set the foundations required for an A/B testing culture going forwards with the business. The benefits are vast, with the future-proofing of data being the main benefit. It will allow relatively easy expansion in the future.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at your plans for the future of the business and see whether looking at Apps Is a consideration. Having all your content/data in one place is perfect for launching into other platforms.
Great Customer Service, Easy to Use!
What do you like best about the product?
Contentstack team has been very accommodating in helping our team with any questions we have or issues that have arisen. We've been using them on all of our sites for a year now and have had no complaints.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be hard to create the correct content for your needs and once content types have been created it can be difficult to modify. That being said CTS team is there to help make sure you create the correct content types for your needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the contentstack headless CMS to deliver content to our ecommerce sites. Its been very flexible in our ability to create and manage content.
Depends on the Aptitude/Experience of the Company re: understanding CMSs
What do you like best about the product?
Contentstack seems to be pretty straight-forward and nimble to understand in terms of building templates, and is intuitive to get around in (finding content entries, editing, publishing, scheduling, etc). It is great for managing regular eCommerce promotions and putting together storytelling pages about products using atomic content modules I designed.
What do you dislike about the product?
ContentStack needs more pre-built solutions out of the box that are commonly requested business needs of content mgmt teams--a blog, a preview of content (especially an entire page) within the product without having to publish, pre-configured content modules that can be dragged and dropped in the desired order, an easy way to set custom URLs at the root level...basically if they could mimic more of the experience of a WordPress or Squarespace CMS, it'd get content teams onboard so fast! Otherwise, you have to have a seasoned Product Mngr with a vision for all of these things who has to define it all upfront, then have a tech team spend months of time building it all. Sales team should identify common use case for content marketing nowadays and come up with pre-built examples. I worked for many years in the CMS SaaS industry and we always built a lot of pre-existing models like this to close sales deals.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest struggle is being able to create custom URLs at the root level, example: mydomain.com/hello. We're working on some kind of backend rails solution for this. It seems its been a bit of an extra struggle getting things to work with rails, but I know CS has a rails gem that we haven't explored using yet...we are just doing raw calls as I understand it. My tech team has been saddles with hundreds of requests for other things, so we dont have the time to dedicate to the CMS.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As I mentioned above, you have to have a seasoned Product Mngr with a vision for all of the content mgmt needs of the company... who defines it all upfront, then has a tech team spend months of time building it all. Just because you acquired a CMS doesn't mean suddenly everything is automatically ready to go.
Extremely smooth and flexible headless CMS.
What do you like best about the product?
Contentstack allows you to create different types of webpages. It let you add reusable content blocks like headers and menus. This comes in handy when you need to manage elements of an app for various devices. It also has easy-to-follow documentation and example code for various project types.
What do you dislike about the product?
Contentstack has no support for document indexing and does not have any website management either. The drop zones sometimes making it difficult to smoothly drag-and-drop the objects. Its user interface is also not very intuitive either.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Contentstack provides complete control over webbooks, users, roles and assets. It works seamlessly on multiple platforms. It has support for multiple programming languages as well. Its most amazing features include content composition, batch publishing, and scheduled publishing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Contentstack allows you to create different types of webpages.
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