CMS 101: Your Own Vendor Selection Guide

Content management system has become the need of the hour for every business today. However, businesses stepping down this way can often find themselves on the roads of confusion while selecting the ideal CMS vendor. It is necessary to move carefully in this way as it can lead to some unwanted consequences for your business, that nobody wants to come cross. That is why we have listed major factors that should be considered while selecting the right vendor for your organization.

First let us outline the definition of Content Management System to our readers who are new to this term:

Abbreviated as CMS, a content management system, also called a Web management system is software or a group or suite of applications and tools that enable an organization to seamlessly create, edit, review and publish electronic text. (Source: webopedia)

Criteria for selecting the right vendor:

• Customization flexibility - There are certain questions that you need to ask to the listed providers. For example, can the custom data types be defined without the skills of coding? Does the Content Management System, support structured content? And a lot more.
  

• Support – is the vendor giving the desired support when it comes basic product patches and other services like user monitoring, hosting, web development or strategic guidance?
  

• Other question that should be asked is whether it supports specific workflows or not?
  

All the above questions should be put forward in front of the vendors if you want to select a CMS that is able to boost all business processes and take your organization to a whole new level. If still in doubt, get in touch with a team of Silicon Valley web developers that can easily guide and help you in the integration of a CMS.