CMS Trends - Custom Vs Prebuilt
I was trying to analyze the trend towards companies leaving their own custom solution in favor of standard CMS solutions like Drupal, Joomla and DotNetNuke etc. While I can find many stories of medium to large organizations leaving their own solution for Drupal / Joomla, etc., I cannot find links where organizations leave pre-built CMS / Frameworks to do custom customizations again. Is this not happening at all or is it just a matter of not being documented?
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Imran.
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Okay, I can imagine that while most companies prefer homebrew solutions for some of them or in a certain scenario, open source or a commercial alternative might suit their needs.
If we have to create a blog in our work, we will most likely choose Wordpress, we know this, it does what it needs and does it well. The setup isn't big, but it works out of the box too.
For large projects we always use our own CSM built with our own infrastructure and this is what we know best.
So, to answer your question, I still have to see the first company go from an existing CMS to a custom CMS, but I'm sure there is both.
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From a technical perspective, a commercial CMS company with 50 full-time engineers spends around 100,000 hours of engineering effort annually in product management and development. A homebrew solution usually has a small team of engineers tasked with managing and developing it, often balancing other projects and responsibilities as well. Let's say a homebrew solution has a team of 4 people working part-time (20 hours) per week, which equates to about 4,000 hours per year for product management and development.
That's 100k versus 4k hours of engineering in 1 year.
Also consider that for a homebrew solution, most of the first year of 4k hours will be spent recreating basic content management that has been written 100 times; permissions, workflow, approval processes, etc.
From a business perspective, companies want to focus on their core competencies. If your core competency is not content management, there is no point in building homebrew CMSs from scratch, and companies mostly don't do it or leave them if they are in the past.
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