Are SaaS CMSs cost effective?
Enterprise SaaS content management systems often require relatively high monthly or annual fees. Some brands do the maths and quickly work out that buying a product would work out “cheaper” after the first year or two.
However, those calculations are often erroneous. They don’t factor in the money they’ll need to invest in things such as paying the vendor a support or consulting fee to help deploy the CMS, employing more developers to help with ongoing maintenance fees to third-party developers, the costly process of updating the product — and of course, the time it takes to organize all of the above.
And perhaps more importantly, speed is never factored into such equations, despite being pivotal. While SaaS products are available on-demand, buying and deploying a product can take months.
If you’re convinced by the monetary savings and the lack of maintenance required for a SaaS CMS, the checklist below will help you weed out the sub-par products from the batch of SaaS CMSs that you’re choosing between.
Sure, your company could handle everything, but the question is; what is the core focus of your business? Are you really a technology company?
The reality is, thanks to the emergence of SaaS companies, technology is no longer the differentiator. While their software is totally taken care of, brands are focusing on improving their products and services to help them stand out from the crowd.