Just like Oppenheimer at the recent Oscars, Umbraco has 'swept the boards' at the CMS Critic Awards winning in 5 main categories:

  • Best Enterprise CMS: Umbraco
  • Best DXP: Umbraco
  • Best Headless CMS: Umbraco
  • Best AI Solution in a CMS or DXP: Umbraco
  • Best Composable Solution: Umbraco

"There's usually one big movie that sweeps at the Academy Awards, lurching victories in multiple categories. Things don't always play out that way with our own Awards program – but this year, there was one vendor that came out on top. This year, Umbraco brought the rain. With the launch of its Umbraco Heartcore headless CMS – as well as an array of AI plugins and integrations – it’s clear that Umbraco’s users are thrilled with its features and came out to support the platform in a big way. Congrats to the Umbraco team and its community for driving home these wins."

CMS Critic is the leading online publication dedicated to content management systems. From open source to headless, DXP to enterprise, CMS Critic the most trusted source for news, reviews and industry analysis. The organisation is a collection of developers and content professionals who want the industry to grow and endure.

The CMS Critic Awards follow on from the recent G2 survey into the leading CMS platforms. G2 is the world’s leading business software review platform, have undertaken a comprehensive comparison and rating analysis of the six leading .net Content Management Systems. Keeping their ratings unbiased is G2’s top priority so they require the use of a LinkedIn account or verified business email address to validate a G2 user’s identity and employer. Additionally, all reviews are manually checked. Only the opinion of real users and data from public sources factor into G2 ratings.

Umbraco CMS has achieved an impressive rating and stands out favorably against the rest in the full report, which can be found here:

https://www.g2.com/compare_reports/umbraco-optimizely-content-management-system-sitecore-experience-platform-kentico-progress-sitefinity-and-contentful-72010f3e-5459-4512-8123-c31e4ff5524e

The G2 report offers insights into Umbraco's strengths, features, and the user experiences relative to other leading CMSs. A key finding is that Umbraco CMS boasts the shortest time-frame for return on investment.

Finally, the CMS Critics awards also picked our preferred hosting platform Azure as the Best Development/Hosting Platform:

"While Microsoft continues to expand its foray into search and AI, its cloud ecosystem is providing a solid foundation for building applications and scaling services to meet the growing demands of modern digital experiences."

At bd2 we've been using Umbraco for well over ten years, we are Gold Partners and all our develeoprs are Umbraco Certified because we believe that, as these awards show, it's the best, most flexible, friendly and editor-centred CMS on the market. These factors have made it the biggest .Net Open source CMS with over 1,000,000 live websites across the world. It’s trusted by leading organisations including Carlsberg, Sony, Microsoft, the European Union and Mercedes. Umbraco offers complete freedom for developers with seamless integrations into other solutions.