5 Signs You've Outgrown Your CMS
5 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your CMS
By Dominic Andrews, Executive Director, KMMRCE Technologies
Recognising and addressing CMS issues before productivity suffers is always the best approach to solving issues associated with outgrowing your content set-up. When teams are not wrestling with outdated tech, they’re being a lot more productive. For instance, they can build apps much faster, update platform content in minutes, streamline operations, and enhance data analytics.
So, how do you know it’s time for a change?
1.?????You’re maintaining multiple CMSs
A CMS is meant to centralise content management—having multiple arrangements goes against its principle and will only lead to more confusion. The benefits are lost when you’re using more than one. Multiple CMSs create silos that require extra work to maintain, make it challenging to repurpose content intelligently and collaborate efficiently across teams.
2.????CMS capabilities are limiting innovation
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Working around an outdated CMS is not only time consuming, but forces marketing and product development teams to be more selective in how they deploy resources. When developers become focused on keeping the lights on, fewer resources are available to explore new functionalities, implement creative designs, and develop proofs of concept.
3.????Bulky CMSs slow down production
This manifests as extra time needed to migrate or recreate existing content, and time spent researching workarounds or plugins needed instead of writing clean code. And let’s not forget the hours wasted while troubleshooting bugs caused by adding new code to an outdated CMS.
4.???Content and development workflows are interdependent
When legacy CMSs struggle to accommodate growing digital portfolios, content and development workflows become intertwined. Instead of working in parallel—like they should—content and developer teams have to take turns working in the CMS. That all means lost time. Editors need developers to push content changes live, update hard-coded content, and create new layouts with ease.
5.????It’s proving difficult to scale efficiently
Taking a day or more to make updates in a cumbersome CMS might work with one product in only one market, but it’s a completely inefficient approach when companies need to add multiple products with content customised to different devices and markets, in different languages.?
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