Council Post: Five Questions To Ask When Shopping For A CMS
Summary
Here are five crucial questions to ask: One of the major pitfalls of many CMS platforms is that they effectively trap their customers and make it very difficult for them to change vendors. As is the case with any enterprise software investment, it’s in a company’s best interest if they can quickly and easily switch CMS platforms without risking disruption and loss of content. The applets that these programs push out are often huge and bulky, and they can burden users’ resources and put a strain on their internet service and/or computer. One of the most common mistakes I see haunting companies is that their CMS platform was an afterthought or fait accompli that they just defaulted to because they were already generating content and needed a way to manage it. Before selecting a CMS package, make sure the software has a high enough ceiling to scale with your company’s growth in terms of the number of users, traffic, e-commerce capabilities and being able to display multiple versions of different websites simultaneously.