Compare Concrete5 vs. BackBee

Concrete 5 is a long running content management system. It is known for it's user friendly interface and with it's recent iterations has moved to adopt Symfony components.

BackBee is a content management system from the company Lp Digital. The software is Open Source and released under the GPL3 License. BackBee uses multiple Symfony components for core functions.

• Ease of use
• Extensions marketplace
• Reasonably sized community

• Great user experience with in-place editing
• Contemporary implementation without 
• Backed by a company

• Product versioning can be confusing
• Not many examples for complex implementations
• Multilingual architecture not top notch

• Limited adoption outside of France
• Custom implementation, Symfony in components
• Missing power user features like multilanguage and multisite