Umbraco CMS
WHY USE UMBRACO CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM?
Umbraco is the only open-source, best of breed CMS for composable DXP (digital experience platform) solutions on the .NET platform. Fully customizable and supports enterprise integration and scalability.
An award winning CMS
Umbraco has won many awards including:
First place in the CMS category for The Visual Studio Magazine 2020 Reader’s Choice Award.
First place in the CMS category for The Visual Studio Magazine 2020 Reader’s Choice Award.
First place in the "Best Enterprise CMS" category for the CMS Critics’ Awards.
Umbraco was among the 3 final winners of the Future Unicorn Award 2019 by Digital Europe.
First place in the CMS category for The Visual Studio Magazine 2020 Reader’s Choice Award.
First place in the CMS category for The Visual Studio Magazine 2020 Reader’s Choice Award.
First place in the "Best Enterprise CMS" category for the CMS Critics’ Awards.
Umbraco was among the 3 final winners of the Future Unicorn Award 2019 by Digital Europe.
UMBRACO FACTS
Biggest and fastest growing Microsoft .Net based CMS (open source)
+1.000.000 active websites worldwide
More than a decade of history
100+ people work at Umbraco HQ
More than 1,500 partners worldwide
+220.000 active Umbraco community members
300+ add-ons from community
Offices in DK, NL and US
THE FRIENDLIEST, EDITOR-CENTERED USER INTERFACE
Umbraco CMS is known for its user-friendly, editor-centered interface, making it a top choice for businesses and content teams alike.
Its intuitive design ensures ease of use, allowing editors to focus on content creation without needing technical skills. With features like drag-and-drop functionality and customizable workflows, Umbraco enables efficient content management tailored to each user’s needs. Plus, with expert support from trusted partners like NXT, you’re never alone—help is always within reach. Umbraco CMS offers simplicity, flexibility, and a seamless user experience, making it the ideal platform for managing your online presence.
UMBRACO VS WORDPRESS
Umbraco
- Built on .NET framework (C# strongly typed language) so ultimately more secure and scalable designed for mid-market to enterprise content management with robust compiler reducing potential error risks.
- canvas to develop support complex and market leading creative and page builds. The lightweight frameworks allows simplicity to manage as well as offering complex integration options.
- Supports fully customised design layouts and the latest Version 8+ block/component page builder supports dynamic page building solutions.
- Limited plug and play functionality but no constraints of third party or software integration as flexible code API supports all Martech tools and web components.
- Centrally managed suite of core commercial products aligned with version control and updates to ensure reliability.
Wordpress
- Blogging system that’s evolved into web publishing and built on PHP framework (dynamic language) with known security risks and vulnerabilities and more error prone as a code base.
- Perceived positives of accessibility to plugin marketplace but ultimately over time become a dependency causing a risk of issues from update delays and support, through to security vulnerabilities and site speed limitations.
- Wordpress offers a vast theme selection available to use which again are subject to constraints around the framework and versioning.
- Block editor and content block publishing which is intuitive to use for content publishing but when overly used with too many plugins will cause site speed
SECURITY AND FUTURE OF UMBRACO
Security is at the heart of Umbraco and .NET platform and Umbraco has committed to the future of their CMS. Recently invested in by Monterro (Swedish based growth fund) to support product growth, the backbone on the CMS will always be aligned with free open source. The product itself will be continuous updated and patched. The release schedule is critical for feature growth but also security of the platform and major releases are aligned with those of .NET Core major updates. With the product investing in social coding, cloud hosting, Headless, themed solutions, and marketplace the growth of Umbraco as the primary composable DXP (digital experience platform).