Abcore Cadí is a user friendly internet service platform specifically designed for non-profit organizations. It works together with Content Management System (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Learning Content Management System (LCMS), and many other features to create and maintain websites.
Idealware has release a free report A Consumers Guide to Case Management Systems that provides reviews of several different CMSs which readers can access through email registration. You can compare our internet service platform with Drupal, Ektron, Evoq, ExpressionEngine, ezPublish, and many others. Please note that Idealware did not review the Abcore Cadí system, the following rating is solely conducted by iWith.org with reference to Idealware’s CMS criteria.
Price
There is no license fee for using Abcore Cadí created by iWith.org foundation. The minimum price for using the iWith.org network with a membership is 144€ per year. Moreover, some organizations are able to acquire a grant for the first year.
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Ease of Hosting and Installation (Excellent)-
The system is hosted by iWith.org foundation.
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Organizations only need an internet browser to access the system.
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No technical skills are required because iWith.org performs the installation.
Ease of Setting Up a Simple Site (Solid)
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Abcore Cadí provides all necessary features to create a hierarchical page structure.
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Graphical themes are provided.
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Once familiar with the tools, users can be more creative with the provided features.
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In 2015, the 1 Pager tool and other simple features will make setting up a simple site even more convenient.
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iWith.org offers full support to organizations to set up websites.
Learning Curve to Set Up a Complex Site (Excellent)
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Abcore Cadí provides many features that can help users to set up a more extensive site.
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Users do not need specific knowledge or to manage HTML and CSS because all content is managed by the ¨What You See Is What You Get¨ (WYSIWYG) editor
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iWith.org provides 2 hours of sufficient training for uploading and updating contents.
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Once familiarized with the provided features, users can be more creative when setting up the site.
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iWith.org offers full support to organizations to set up websites.
Ease of Content Editing (Solid)
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Screencasts are provided as step by step tutorials.
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Users can easily learn how to find, update, add, and edit their content.
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Users can also copy and paste text from Microsoft Word for content editing.
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It is easy to add and manipulate an image or social thumbnail.
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The system allows users to preview the content without losing context and also to preview it before publishing it.
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Ease of managing a Site (Excellent)
Structural Flexibility (Excellent)
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Abcore Cadí allows users to customize the content types without coding.
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Sidebars and widgets can be easily created and edited.
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This system can be managed in four different languages; English, French, Spanish and Catalan.
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Moreover, the content itself can be published in any language.
Graphical Flexibility (Solid)
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Organizations can use various designs provided by iWith.org and they can also request particular layouts.
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The Abcore Cadí system is very flexible in terms of layouts as it supports nearly any web page design created via HTML and CSS.
Ease of Mobile Support (Excellent)
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The website design works on mobile devices.
Integration with Constituent Data (Fair)
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Abcore Cadí does not have the feature of personalizing content based on visitor traffic.
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The system integrates different databases for newsletter, users, extranet users, mass mailing, and data exporting.
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Site administrators can create custom forms to collect data from visitors, without coding.
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Data collected with forms can be sent to CRM as VTiger, or it can be exported to Excel or CSV.
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Online Donation forms are available with PayPal or Tefpay online payments.
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Marketing analytics is also provided.
User Roles and Workflow (Excellent)
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Administrators can easily assign complex user roles and workflow within the core system.
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User roles determine which users have permission to access and edit certain contents.
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Abcore Cadí provides a list of content items that need administrator attention with a notification system.
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Users can save their works as drafts before publishing it to the public.
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However, users cannot set up a specific time to publish the content automatically
Community/Web 2.0 Functionality (Solid)
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The system allows public site visitors to create their own personal site profiles.
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Visitors are allowed to post comments for any content with a comment moderation system.
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In addition, visitors with profiles can publish contents on the website.
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Multi-author blogs are supported.
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Visitors are also able to share articles to Twitter, Facebook, and many other social networks.
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Abcore Cadí provides full support to filter ingoing and outgoing RSS feeds.
Accessibility (Fair)
Search Engine Optimization (Excellent)
Extending Beyond Existing Functionality (Fair)
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iWith.org can help organizations to build minimal add-ons, and all newly developed features will be available to all organizations within the iWith.org network.
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All contents can be exported and some can be specifically exported into a generic form.
Security and Reliability (Solid)
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Abcore Cadí does not have any limitations on how much traffic it can support beyond the software.
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Abcore Cadí performs transparent security updates frequently for users and admins.
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Provides parameters for password strength (e.g., length, capitalization, special characters, numbers).
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HTTPS security services are provided for admin and extranet authentication, and it is possible for them to add Security SSL certificate for the entire website.
Support and Community Strength (Solid)
The Abcore Cadí platform is flexible and accessible for creating and maintaining websites. According to Idealware’s criteria, Abcore Cadí has 7 excellenct ratings, 6 solid ratings, and 3 fair ratings. This internet service platform is very helpful for building simple sites, but it is also sufficient to build more extensive sites.
The Idealware free report reveals that iWith.org not only acts as a guide through your CMS, but also supports you as a partner by implementing its Content Management System technology. iWith.org is more than happy with its ratings and willing to improve them for the future.
