Why Custom CMS?

Problems with existing CMSs

One size fits all
• Not user friendly
• User interfaces and administrative workflow aren’t specific to your business
• Timely navigation
• Limitations
• Lack of intuition

Lack of customisation and creative control
• Limitations in suiting the user experience to your business
• Forced to work within a predefined template

Third party plugins
• Unknown, unsecured and vulnerable source code
• Mass produced, easily hacked
• Navigating the development side can be difficult

Massive licence fess
• Added costs to your bill
• No ownership of code

Slow support
• Gaining support from off-the-shelf CMS can take weeks/months
• Specialists not an reputable, don’t know who your talking to

Slow loading times
• Open source CMSs are known to be bogged down by traffic
• Built to cover a wide range of often unused applications, so it can use up resources needlessly.

Why Custom CMS?

1 – Customisation, Uniqueness, Freedom, Specific to your business

• Designed around your goals and objectives
• No limitations
• Clean canvas, One-of-a-kind solution
• A custom platform for any and every device
• Matched for YOUR business, YOUR workflow and YOUR needs, built from scratch
• Complete control over the platform’s functionality, interface and updates

2 – Security
• Secured above and beyond
• Not taken off the shelf
• Increased safety of your user’s personal information ensuring you won’t be affected by mass security exploits
• Less/Easier-to-read code enhances debugging, making it easier to spot problems within the architecture
• Not mass-distributed, Float under the radar, unknown to hackers
• The code can be optimized to serve specific functions, thus increasing the site speed

4 – Scalability

• The highest-trafficked websites almost always rely on custom solutions, because they know that a highavailability, scaled solution is difficult with off-the-shelf solutions
• Plan for high-traffic scenarios
• Responsive – make updates to your website on any device – mobile, tablet, desktop

6 – Ownership
• A valuable asset
• Unique asset in your company
• Not a liability
• A system you can rely 0n to serve your requirements for many years to come
• You have ownership of the technology which solves your exact business challenges, no matter how complex

5 – Long lasting, Lifespan
• Average installation lasts 5 years
• Designs & Experiences Change. Your Platform Doesn’t Have To.
• Avoid having to rebuild or reinstall your entire platform during large scale website redesigns
• The ability and flexibility to keep your platform unchanged even when your front-end experience changes drastically
• Make iterations to the design of your product or redesign entirely without the fear of breaking the back-end, which is essentially just a admin portal, a content management tool.

3 – Workflow, User interaction
• User management and workflow can be tailored to any business’ specific needs
• Build taxonomies from a business requirements perspective. Labeling and naming convensions can all be customised to match your business, this is the very nature of a custom CMS
• Save time by not having to work within the constraints of a system that doesn’t fit your business needs and spend more time building your product and focusing on business drivers like differentiating yourself
• A seamless extension of your other marketing efforts, integration with other tools are not at the mercy of plugins and third party products
• Extremely intuitive and easy to use