Before choosing a content management system, you should carefully check which features are available "out of the box" and whether they are suitable for your needs.
How may cmsWorks help here?
That's why cmsWorks already includes many features in the open source Community Edition cmsWorks CE that are important for daily work with a content management system and provide the best possible support for editorial staff.
The licensed Enterprise Edition cmsWorks EE includes additional features that can be important for medium to large portals on the server side and enable an (optional) SLA for constant availability.
The features of cmsWorks in detail
The following table provides a (non-exhaustive) overview of the features that come with cmsWorks. These features are available to programmers, administrators, and editors right from the start.
| Description | cmsWorks CE | cmsWorks EE |
| API-First | x | x |
| OS independend | x | x |
| Fully detached | x | x |
| Any number of generators | x | x |
| Multi-channel capable | x | x |
| Own CMS messenger | x | x |
| Vertical and horizontal scaling | x | x |
| Local, self-hosted or cloud | x | x |
| Monitoring mechanisms | x | x |
| Full-stack implementation | x | x |
| Dev/stage/live environments | x | x |
| Zero administration | x | x |
| Integrated command line interface (CLI) | x | x |
| Easy backup/recovery | x | x |
| Easy full backup (external systems) | x | x |
| Format-neutral content storage | x | x |
| Referential integrity | x | x |
| Full versioning | x | x |
| Editorial desktop in browser | x | x |
| Multilingual interface | x | x |
| Protection against accidental deletion | x | x |
| Any number of editors | x | x |
| Any amount of content | x | x |
| Any content structures/document types | x | x |
| One-click preview | x | x |
| WYSIWYG editing | x | x |
| In-page editing | x | x |
| Preview/live generators | x | x |
| Editorial workflow | x | x |
| Flexible rights management | x | x |
| ContentScript in the editorial desktop | x | x |
| Version history in the desktop | x | x |
| Various editorial roles | x | x |
| Integrated search for editors (everything) | x | x |
| Integrated search for users (defined) | x | x |
| Freely configurable document types | x | x |
| Self-defined categories | x | x |
| Multi-client capable | x | x |
| Automation via ContentScript | x | x |
| Non-visual content scripts | x | x |
| AI integration via ContentScript | x | x |
| Scaling from USB stick to IT landscape | x | x |
| Reduced dependencies | x | x |
| cmsWorks EE - Additional features | x | |
| GraphQL server | x | |
| JSON headless generator | x | |
| JSON headless preview | x | |
| CaaS / SaaS options | x | |
| Service level agreements | x | |
| 24x7x52 option | x | |
| Version destroyer (optimizes memory) | x | |
| Medium processor / image scaling | x |
