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"At the same time, the technical underpinnings of the product are more than a decade old, and while Interwoven understandably does not want to completely re-invent the platform, it is becoming increasingly harder for the company to align its architecture with contemporary standards and performance expectations. For customers, making slight feature modifications can entail significant engineering work..."

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More than 1000 products purport to manage Web content. To make your life easier, we list only 41 of them, divided into 6 categories. These are not the "best" Web CMS tools, simply -- in our judgment -- the most significant today.

You can find a longer discussion of these categories -- along with comparative evaluations of these tools -- in The Web CMS Report.

Complex Enterprise Platform Vendors

Large-scale platforms typically marketed in multidimensional "suites" that span many function points, but may be less well-suited for straightforward Web CMS projects. Expect about US $200-250k+ for entry-level licensing.

• IBM - Lotus WCM
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 12
• Oracle - Stellent Web Content Management
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 37
• Autonomy - Interwoven TeamSite
  - HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA & Cambridge, UK -- Mentions: 48
• Open Text - Vignette Content Management
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 42
• Documentum (EMC) - Documentum Web Content Management
  - HQ: Pleasanton, CA, USA -- Mentions: 21

Upper-Range Platforms

Upper-range platforms occupy a moderately expanding space between departmental installations and full-blown Enterprise-tier vendors.

• Percussion - Rhythmyx
  - HQ: Woburn, MA, CA -- Mentions: 22
• CoreMedia - CoreMedia CMS
  - HQ: Hamburg, Germany -- Mentions: 5
• SDL Tridion - R5.3
  - HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Mentions: 24
• FatWire - Content Server
  - HQ: Mineola, NY, US -- Mentions: 28
• Alfresco - Alfresco WCM
  - HQ: Maidenhead, UK -- Mentions: 10
• Day Software - Communique
  - HQ: Basel, Switzerland -- Mentions: 33

Mid-Range Platforms

These offerings serve mid-market companies, or departmental projects within larger enterprises. In particular, they target scenarios requiring above-average customization — often requiring an outside consultant.

• Drupal - Drupal
  - HQ: Global -- Mentions: 10
• EPiServer AB - EPiServer
  - HQ: Stockholm, Sweden -- Mentions: 10
• Refresh Software - SR2
  - HQ: Waltham, MA, US -- Mentions: 3
• Hippo - Hippo CMS
  - HQ: Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- Mentions: 9
• TYPO3 - TYPO3
  - HQ: Global project -- Mentions: 6
• Microsoft - MOSS 2007 WCM
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 51
• VYRE - Unify
  - HQ: London, UK -- Mentions: 3
• Alterian - Content Manager Enterprise Edition
  - HQ: Bristol, United Kingdom -- Mentions: 20
• Open Text - Web Solutions
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 28
• Plone - Plone CMS
  - HQ: Global project -- Mentions: 2
• Sitecore - Sitecore Content Manager
  - HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark -- Mentions: 17

Mid-Range Products

A key advantage of this class of products as a whole is that they tend to offer more pre-packaged features. Many of them actively promote “website-in-a-box” solutions that include bundled social applications, analytics, collaboration, and more.

• e-Spirit - FIRSTspirit
  - HQ: Germany -- Mentions: 4
• Ingeniux - Ingeniux Content Management System
  - HQ: Seattle, WA, US -- Mentions: 3
• Magnolia - Magnolia CMS
  - HQ: Basel, Switzerland -- Mentions: 5
• Escenic - Escenic
  - HQ: Oslo, Norway -- Mentions: 4
• Clickability - Clickability Platform
  - HQ: San Francisco, CA, US -- Mentions: 13
• GOSS - GOSS iCM
  - HQ: United Kingdom -- Mentions: 3
• Ektron - CMS400.NET
  - HQ: Nashua, NH, US -- Mentions: 27
• Hannon Hill - Cascade Server
  - HQ: Atlanta, GA, USA -- Mentions: 6
• CrownPeak Technology - CrownPeak CMS
  - HQ: Los Angeles, CA, US -- Mentions: 15
• eZ Systems - eZ publish
  - HQ: Skien, Norway -- Mentions: 6

Simpler Products

These are smaller, albeit established vendors that come to the marketplace with packaged tools at attractive prices. However, sometimes the tools are not as feature rich or as well tested as many of their “mainstream” competitors.

• OmniUpdate - OU Campus
  - HQ: Camarillo, California, US -- Mentions: 4
• Alterian - Content Manager Corporate Edition
  - HQ: Bristol, United Kingdom -- Mentions: 7
• Joomla Project - Joomla!
  - HQ: Global -- Mentions: 17
• OpenCms - OpenCms
  - HQ: Global project -- Mentions: 3
• DotNetNuke - DotNetNuke
  - HQ: Seattle, WA, USA -- Mentions: 3
• Terminalfour - Site Manager
  - HQ: Ireland -- Mentions: 3
• PaperThin - CommonSpot Content Server
  - HQ: Quincy, MA, US -- Mentions: 10
• Telerik - Sitefinity CMS
  - HQ: Sofia, BG -- Mentions: 2

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.