NTEN Report

As Jon Stahl pointed out over at Nabble, the Nonprofit Technology Network published its 2008 CMS Satisfaction Survey (see the link at the bottom of his post--thanks, Jon). Today I'm going to look at their CMS Adoption data (pg. 9).

Please don't take this too seriously, since the sample size isn't terrifically large (but congrats to NTEN for getting so much data). As Jon pointed out, this is a self-reporting survey, so it is anything but random.

Here are the columns for all organizations irrespective of size (measured by budget):

	Count	Percent
Other	216	29%
Drupal	114	15%
Plone	62	8%
Joomla!	59	8%
Convio_CMS	52	7%
Antharia	49	7%
Blackbaud	47	6%
iMIS	26	4%
Kintera_Sphere_CMS	26	4%
ImpressCMS	20	3%
WordPress	18	2%
Ektron	14	2%
Custom	14	2%
XOOPS	13	2%
Convio_PageBuilder	12	2%
CrownPeak	11	2%
TOTAL	754

"Other" comes out clearly at the head of the pack with Drupal a distant second and Plone/Joomla! leading the peloton at 8%. Let's now look at the values for small organizations (budgets under $500K):

	Count	Percent
Other	43	21%
Drupal	40	19%
Joomla!	31	15%
Plone	31	15%
Antharia	16	8%
WordPress	10	5%
XOOPS	10	5%
ImpressCMS	9	4%
Blackbaud	4	2%
Convio_CMS	2	1%
Custom	2	1%
Kintera_Sphere_CMS	2	1%
Convio_PageBuilder	1	1%
CrownPeak	0	0%
Ektron	0	0%
iMIS	0	0%
TOTAL	210

"Other" is still on top with 21% and Drupal is still seated in second, but both Plone and Joomla! at 15% have pulled away from the peloton (<9%).

For large organizations we find:

	Count	Percent
Other	87	31%
Convio_CMS	35	12%
Blackbaud	26	9%
Drupal	20	7%
iMIS	14	5%
Plone	13	5%
Antharia	13	5%
Kintera_Sphere_CMS	12	4%
Joomla!	11	4%
Convio_PageBuilder	9	3%
CrownPeak	9	3%
Ektron	7	3%
ImpressCMS	6	2%
Custom	4	1%
WordPress	1	0%
XOOPS	1	0%
TOTAL	283

If one looks at medium-sized organizations (no need for another chart, trust me) ,"Other" once again tops the list with everyone else far below in the pack. Drupal is now fourth, Plone sixth, and Joomla! sinking to ninth.

What can we conclude from this? Here's the graph of all the data, including the medium-sized organizations:

Among large, well funded nonprofits, "other" (which may frequently mean home-built), far and away is reported more often that any of the other titles.

At small nonprofits, "other" along with Plone, Drupal, and Joomla! fare roughly equally well.

In between, at medium-sized organizations, "other" and Drupal top the ranks.

Another way to look at this is to combine large and medium org percents (M+L) and compare that score against the small org number.

	M+L		Small minus M+L
	Count	Percent	Percent
Joomla!	25	5%	9%
Plone	28	6%	9%
Drupal	65	14%	5%
XOOPS	1	0%	5%
WordPress	6	1%	4%
Antharia	23	5%	3%
ImpressCMS	11	2%	2%
Custom	10	2%	-1%
Convio_PageBuilder	9	2%	-1%
CrownPeak	10	2%	-2%
Ektron	12	3%	-3%
Kintera_Sphere_CMS	21	5%	-4%
iMIS	24	5%	-5%
Blackbaud	34	7%	-5%
Convio_CMS	42	9%	-8%
Other	142	31%	-10%
TOTAL	463

Now Plone and Joomla! move to the top of the list, which is to say their numbers fell off most sharply as one moved from small to medium and large organizations. One might conclude that Plone and Joomla! are best suited for situations where there is little money to spare, whether for installation, licenses, training, customization, or IT in general. Drupal and "other" are then favored when there is a larger org with presumably more disposable income to spare on CMS.

But without a doubt, the biggest lesson from all this is that open source is very strong within the not-for-profit community.