Marg eZ Platform Enterprise Edition

My review is based on working with the 3.X version of eZ; the recommendation score is based on not having used the 4.X or 5.X versions that have been released in the years since I actively used the product. I can't say how well it currently measures up to the competition, but I would recommend at least giving it a try.

At the time, eZ was the only CMS system that supported localization "out of the box". That was a huge win for supporting a company based in Germany but with customers in Europe, the US, and Japan. It allowed us to quickly build a site to meet the needs of marketing and sales across a variety of languages.

The template system was robust allowing for deep customization of how content was presented across various areas of the site. Its extension system allowed us to integrate our existing license portal system with it and build a sales tool platform on top of it.

Was a solid enough CMS system, that I began using it for my personal web site as well.

The system / UI for managing templates was not intuitive and required manually bookmarking template files once you found them. Otherwise, you would have to spend time hunting for it again a few months later when you finally needed to access it again.

Hard to say based on not having used any of the latest versions. At the time, it had fantastic localization support where other CMS systems lagged behind.

Solved the issue of multilingual content, single-sign on with other platforms, and having a unified web site. The extension system allowed us to integrate or build on top of it a number of mission critical services.

The CMS is very flexible, the project is open so it is easy to help contribute to fix bugs and add features, eZ does a good job of making substantial updates to the system without leaving old features behind.

Interface for selecting content and custom tags in content blocks, no embeddable custom form designer, coupling with YUI for new backoffice component

Inflexibility of other CMS applications, or poorly-designed content models of other systems

Integration of Symfony2 was a great move

the community repos are not getting enough love

go directly to ezplatform without legacy

giving moderate to complex cms solution to my customers

What do you like best?

What do you dislike?

This CMS is a full-featured, all bells and whistles, all-you-need, and then some, kind of beast. Many advanced features that are clunky and hard to use on other CMSes (multiple languages, document versioning, .doc and .pdf autoi ndexing, are just a click away with this app.

eZ is not that easy to develop. To start, it is a dual app/framework thing. It comes with a whole app already working, but there's a huge API to build whatever you can dream of, and everything is customizable. It needs some time to learn all the corners. And docs are sometimes on the basic side, addressed to the ninja-level developer.

Creating bundles and add-on to integrate with eZ. Good thing is that it's easy to make each bundle as isolated, or as integrated as one needs. It can be almost standalone, as an independent service, or ride almost all on top of the eZ framework.