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Contentful CMS

Adopt

Contentful is our preferred headless CMS for managing content across diverse digital platforms. With its robust API-first architecture and user-friendly interface, Contentful streamlines content management and delivery, enabling teams to work efficiently and collaboratively.

Why Contentful?

  • Headless Architecture: Facilitates omnichannel content delivery with a robust set of APIs, ideal for websites, mobile apps, and other digital products.
  • Developer and Editor Friendly: Provides easy integration with SDKs for developers and an intuitive UI for content creators, supporting parallel workflows.
  • Scalability: Highly scalable for enterprise-level projects, with excellent localization and workflow management capabilities.
  • Content Modeling: Enables structured content management, allowing complex and reusable content models that fit various use cases.

Best Practices at INFO

  • Adoption Strategy: Contentful has proven to be a reliable solution, offering our teams the right balance of usability, flexibility, and scalability.
  • Use Cases: Used across marketing websites, e-commerce platforms, and complex content-driven applications to manage and deliver content seamlessly.

Contentful’s adoption reinforces our commitment to efficient, scalable, and user-friendly content management solutions at INFO.

Trial

Contentful is a versatile headless CMS that allows teams to manage content across multiple digital platforms. Its API-first approach decouples content management from presentation, enabling parallel workflows between developers and content creators for faster digital product delivery.

Why Contentful?

  • Headless Architecture: Delivers content anywhere via robust APIs that are suitable for websites, mobile apps, and more.

  • Developer-Friendly: Strong SDKs and APIs provide easy integration with various tech stacks, making it a flexible and scalable solution.

  • Content Modeling: Offers simple and intuitive content modeling for managing complex structures.

  • Scalability and Localization: Supports enterprise-scale operations with global content management and localization features.

Considerations at INFO

  • Contentful is currently trialed for its ability to integrate seamlessly into our existing workflows and provide an easy-to-use platform for developers and content editors.

  • Current Focus: Evaluating scalability, customization options, and ease of content management across projects.

Contentful's potential to streamline content management makes it a strong candidate as we continue to assess its fit for our long-term needs.

Hold

For our current offerings we think Strapi CMS is a better choice.

Contentful is certainly a very powerful content platform, however we feel that for the client projects that we implement it is overkill and Strapi is more suitable.

Assess

A leading (commercial) headless Content as a Service CMS / content platform.