Plone Pros and Cons

Plone offers a robust feature set, the ability to customize, and can support the needs of agencies both small and large.

Pros

• Plone has strong adoption in the nonprofit and academic communities
• Plone has an outstanding security record
• Plone integrates well with Salesforce
• Plone can be customized and extended to meet almost any need
• Plone community is strong, organized and committed to furthering the platform
• The Plone Foundation has an excellent track record regarding features, roadmap and supporting Plone
• The code is owned by the Plone community and overseen by the Foundation - providing continuity and stability.

Cons

• Plone requires a special hosting environment which may be harder to find
• Plone may be slower unless you have used a savvy implementor that can cache your site to make it speedy
• There aren't as many Plone experts as there are for other website tools
• Plone's security model can make integrating third party tools harder