Most heard objections to implementing a headless content management platform and structured data

Compared to a monolith CMS, headless implementations are technically complex

A headless CMS of any nature is a content repository, nothing more and nothing else.

So for starters, a headless CMS needs a custom content model, also known as schema. The set-up of the content model will be based on the business content model used and will be custom-made for each enterprise or organization. Putting together a custom content model for an enterprise or organization requires some in-depth knowledge of the Headless CMS product. The basis is more or less the same for each Headless CMS, but to fully understand and utilize the features and functionalities, specific expertise is advisable for a specific Headless CMS.

• Headless implementations require a high level of digital maturity
• Beyond Headless CMS, you will need to acquire or outsource digital skills that may not be readily available in the company. Knowledge of one of the more popular front-end development platforms is essential to render your content to a website, web application, native mobile application, or any other digital assets. Whether it is React, Vue or Svelte, specific know-how is required.
• Microservices like web forms, payment forms or notifications will need to be fired up to make your application truly interactive.
• APIs need to be developed, maintained, secured and hosted. This is an expertise that is lacking in many enterprises and organizations.
• A workflow needs to be fired up to make sure that content changes are published on the fly.
• The tech stack needs to be hosted on a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• New monitoring tools are needed
• Multiple software vendors, and multiple User interfaces can create a lot of friction within our user community

Compared to a software platform that so-called does everything for everybody no matter what the requirements are, headless implementations are indeed quite different. And it does require a bit of knowledge to put the pieces together. But almost all of the software pieces are open-sourced or have an open-source philosophy. So gluing it together requires knowledge and experience with headless platforms, it does not require multiple rocket scientists to put it together.

• Multiple software platforms require managing multiple User Interface
• At face value, this is a valid objection. Where it is not that all data coming from these multiple platforms are accessible through an API, and can be accessed through a datahub and be put into a single User Interface.

How can WebriQ help you in overcoming the headless content management entry barriers?

• No need to deal with multiple vendors. WebriQ Studio is the basis of your headless content management platform and serves as User Interface for your entire application. WebriQ Studio has a pre-built content model or schema based on over 20 different components with every 4 standard variants. All components can be designed according to company design guidelines.
• Pagination is at the core of WebriQ Studio. It enables you to put various components together and build them into a page with a distinct URL. The lack of pagination in a headless implementation basically reduces the ability of content managers or digital marketers to publish web pages at will without any need to change the presentation layer.
• WebriQ has full expertise when it comes to microservices and API implementations that will enhance your headless application – web forms, payment forms, and webhooks are standard in WebriQ Studio and work out of the box. We can implement any microservice or implement an API that your business or application would require.
• WebriQ Studio is a complete SaaS product and comes with an entire workflow for creating, updating, and managing structured content.
• Although WebriQ Studio is a SaaS product and can be operated stand-alone and in DIY mode, there is an SLA behind the product. An SLA not only secures you access to our Helpdesk but also secures you with an uptime of 99.99% and unlimited access to the service.

Get you started in the Headless world with WebriQ Studio

WebriQ Studio ?is built on headless CMS principles, but also around the?MACH ?philosophy.

What is MACH?

M: Individual pieces of business functionality that are independently developed, deployed, and managed.

A: All functionality is exposed through an API.

C: SaaS that leverages the cloud, beyond storage and hosting, including elastic scaling and automatically updating.

H: Front-end presentation is decoupled from back-end logic and channel, programming language, and is framework agnostic

Architecture

MACH technologies support a composable enterprise in which every component is pluggable, scalable, replaceable, and can be continuously improved through agile development to meet evolving business requirements.

WebriQ Studio has four major components:

• Sanity and Sanity Studio for the headless CMS
• Nextjs as the production framework
• Serverless forms and payment forms through AWS
• Netlify for the entire publishing workflow and Edge functionality

The content schema is prebuilt and serves as the core of the publishing tool and as the only UI that users need to learn and understand.

For each page you build, you can choose from 20 different components and each component has 5 different variables.

Examples of pre-configured components are Navigation, Header, Footer, Text, Call to action, Testimonial, Portfolio, FAQs, Blog, and more.

Each page with a distinct URL can be populated with one or multiple components. All components can be reused on other pages and all components that are uniquely tagged are updated throughout all pages when content updates are done to that component. All components can be uniquely designed and branded through a Windtail CSS library.

All pages can be previewed before publishing.

SEO settings can be done on all pages separately and there is an SEO preview functionality embedded.

Last but not least, we provide the possibility to publish your WebriQ Studio to any TLD or subdomain of choice and all WebriQ Studios are de facto integrated with WebriQ analytics.

Pricing of WebriQ Studio

WebriQ adopts value-based pricing throughout its entire service portfolio, including WebriQ Studio.

Each customer will receive an unlimited service, for an all-in fixed monthly recurring fee. We use a unit-based approach to make creating unique and customized service packages as easy as possible.

We come to value-based pricing by analyzing and quantifying any or all of the following criteria

• Expected usage of the product
• Branding and design of all components
• Additional Data modeling needed
• Data migration complexity
• The complexity of additional features requested
• Further API integrations needed