3. About us
• London based Silverstripe partner
• Silverstripe since around 2009
• Experiential and Engagement, Events, Banking
and Finance
• Web based applications that enhance the user
experience, enable revenue generation
opportunities, reduce costs or improve brand
positioning and awareness
• We also build Websites and eCommerce Stores
15. Our original criteria
• Use technology we understood
• Separation between data, application and
presentation layers
• Easy to upgrade with an upgrade path
• Easily extendable
• OpenSource? COI? TCO? ROI?
• Suitable for Enterprise and SME clients
• Great UI, easy to use
• Backed by a commercial entity who used it
themselves
25. Our client’s impact on our criteria
• Headless
• Audit history with greater compliance
• Workflow
• Integrate with other applications / systems
• Multiple delivery channels with Data / User
driven content
• Changing standards for Security and Data
GDPR, OWASP, PCI, ISO 27001
• API – personalization, digital experience
• Quick PoC and MVP delivery
As developers we’re always looking at new technology and new ways of doing things, however we felt it was important to base our selection on technology we knew rather than learn a whole new platform like Ruby on Rails or dotNet
We found that a lot of other CMS’s the data, application and presentation are interlinked. Wordpress you’re stuck in the loop, Drupal everything is a node. We wanted the ability to be able to separate the different aspects to give us greater flexibility especially when it comes to the presentation layer and reusing content.
I think most of us will have seen a wordpress site blow up when you click upgrade. We also needed a cms that plays nicely across a dev / test / uat / production topology
I think most of us will have seen a wordpress site blow up when you click upgrade. We also needed a cms that plays nicely across a dev / test / uat / production topology
We wanted something that we could extend and build on easily and quickly. Often we can be looking at delivering a proof od concept or an mvp in a very short period of time
Content editors
Staging / live publishing
Cost of implementation
Total cost of ownership
Return on investment
License fees / support fees
Importantly anything we picked was backed by a commercial entity that was using their CMS for their own work