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CoreMedia vs Drupal comparison

CoreMedia and Drupal are both solutions in the Web Content Management category. CoreMedia is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0, while Drupal is ranked #5. CoreMedia holds a 1.4% mindshare in WCM, compared to Drupal’s 6.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CoreMedia users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Drupal users who would recommend it.
CoreMedia
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100% willing to recommend
Drupal
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  • 783 Comparison Views
95% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between CoreMedia and Drupal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

CoreMedia
Ranking in Web Content Management
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Digital Asset Management (9th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (9th)
Drupal
Ranking in Web Content Management
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of CoreMedia is 1.4%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Drupal is 6.1%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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VB
Provides effective workflow management and catalog management
Around three to four engineers are needed for the solution's deployment and maintenance. The solution's e-commerce integration feature has impacted our marketing efforts and catalog management. CoreMedia is stable and strong in terms of editorial things. The solution has helped our organization manage translations for different languages. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
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it_user628050 - PeerSpot reviewer
The best features are its extensibility and plug-ability. It has a very good authentication/authorization system.
The learning curve is the thing that scares most people away from using Drupal. With Drupal Version 8, it has taken a more standardized way by teaming up with the Symfony framework. This, however, is a double-edged sword. It takes you a step further away from the typical front-end developers that had found their gem in Drupal Versions 6 and 7. By its procedural nature, they were able to build semi-complex websites without any real programming and object oriented programming knowledge. Everything below Drupal 8 was aimed at being a procedural application where you can make changes by using hooks they provide in their code (a small amount were Object Oriented, but most people would never touch this). This allows for an easy way to modify existing pages for the non-programmers who know how to write scripts a little. But these hooks are very specific to Drupal itself (hence the steep learning curve) and aren’t very intuitive if you look at PHP frameworks/applications as a whole. The documentation on how to do things as a complete novice is only subpar in both Drupal 7 & 8. By now there are plenty how-to tutorials on how to do things in Drupal 7 luckily. With Drupal 8 they decided to use Symphony2 as the base framework for the system. This allows for best practices in that framework to be used and allow the vast community of symphony2 programmers to make a switch to Drupal since it leans closer to home than the procedural approach from the previous version. Almost everything is now Object Oriented and the amount of hooks (the old procedural approach) has been pushed back to a minimum. This makes it more difficult for the previously mentioned non-programmers. They are now looking at a huge time-investment to learn OO Programming to get started in Drupal 8. I believe this is the reason why Drupal 8 is making such a slow start compared to Drupal 6 & 7. It’s a good product but they made it so much harder for the people who can write basic PHP scripts. The main area of improvement would be better/more documentation and tutorials on how to do things in Drupal 8 at this moment. It’s a leap of faith for the non-programmers out there and some of them just completely thrown off by it. This is what incites projects like https://backdropcms.org/ where they fork Drupal 7 to keep it going after it reaches EOL.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CoreMedia is good for workflow management and user reviews."
"It is good for big projects."
"The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS."
"We use a part of the solution called Acquia. The personalization portion of this is the most valuable aspect fo the solution."
"You can build websites on it very quickly."
 

Cons

"It is difficult to scale the solution with respect to the costs and infrastructure."
"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."
"Digital experience features like target, segmentation, and campaign management have a long way to go."
"I think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems."
"It is a little bit simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our customers pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution."
"I would like to see better pricing."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
16%
Government
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
 

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CoreMedia?
CoreMedia is good for workflow management and user reviews.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CoreMedia?
Our customers pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution.
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What needs improvement with CoreMedia?
It is difficult to scale the solution with respect to the costs and infrastructure. The solution's integration and multimedia could be improved.
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Overview

CoreMedia is the complete content and digital asset management platform, featuring built-in eCommerce integrations and a secure, modular architecture. Innovate faster, improve efficiency, regain creative control, and boost ROI across all your online properties.

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications
 

Sample Customers

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), N24, Bild.de, Nation Media Group, ARD, ZDF, M. DuMont Schauberg
BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously
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