Compare Symphony CMS vs. BackBee

Symphony CMS is a content management system that is built using PHP language. Despite the similarity in naming it has nothing to do with the Symfony project also written in PHP.

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.

• Simple to read codebase
• Easy user interface
• Extensible by default

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

• Codebase shows it's age
• Heavy investment in project specific technology
• Limited popularity

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