CMS? Headless? DXP? Huh?

Squiz DXP puts marketers in the driver's seat. Create stunning content, run tests, optimize pages and personalize experiences without bugging your developers for everything. Let them focus on the innovation while you work your marketing magic.

Squiz DXP works with all your favorite third-party tools. As your needs evolve, simply swap them in or out using our low-code integration platform. The DXP makes everything work as one solution, with enterprise-grade security to keep your data safe.

No more fragmented user experiences across your websites and digital channels. Create designs and content once, set up approval workflows and publish it everywhere fast. The DXP enables you to scale standard designs and components from on place, without duplicating effort or sacrificing speed.

Here's how these three approaches to managing digital content differ:

• Traditional CMS: An all-in-one system where content creation, management, and website display are tightly connected. Think of it like a cookie-cutter house with pre-defined walls, roof, and foundation - you can live there, but it's hard to change the layout or extend to other buildings.

• Headless CMS: Separates content creation from how it's displayed, giving more flexibility to show the same content across different platforms (websites, apps, social media). It's like taking that house and separating the foundation from everything else - the foundation (your content) stays put, but you can build whatever you want on top of it.

• Digital Experience Platform (DXP): Goes far beyond just managing content. Squiz DXP provides a comprehensive suite of tools for creating, managing, and optimizing complete digital experiences across multiple channels. It includes advanced features like personalization, analytics, integrations, powerful search functionality, and AI-powered content tools - all designed to help organizations deliver cohesive and tailored customer experiences at scale.

Squiz DXP excels in multi-channel content delivery by providing a centralized platform for managing content across websites, portals, apps, and social media. Unlike traditional CMS or even some headless CMS solutions, Squiz DXP offers built-in tools for personalization, optimization, and analytics. This integrated approach ensures consistent, contextualized experiences across all digital touchpoints, making it easier for organizations to deliver the right content to the right audience at the right time.

When considering enterprise-grade solutions, security is paramount. Squiz DXP prioritizes security through:

• ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification

• CSA STAR compliance

• AWS-certified data centers with 24/7 protection

• Role-based access control

• Data encryption at rest and in transit

• Regular security testing and vulnerability monitoring

• Automatic security updates via SaaS delivery

As a trusted platform for leading organizations in government, education and professional services worldwide, Squiz DXP has top-level accreditations in place to eliminate common security risks associated with traditional CMS plugins while maintaining the highest security standards. View our security accreditations here.

Squiz DXP is designed with flexibility and integration in mind through its integrated iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service). It offers a composable architecture that allows organizations to easily integrate existing tools and systems. The Squiz Marketplace provides secure, pre-built integrations to popular applications from vendors like Microsoft, Salesforce, Hubspot, Meta and Google. Additionally, Squiz DXP Integrations enables you to create new connections to any system with an API in minutes, ensuring seamless integration with your existing tech stack.

The platform also supports flexible integration with specialized tools like eCommerce platforms such as Shopify and email marketing tools like Mailchimp. This approach allows your team to continue using best-in-class specialized tools while ensuring seamless connection with website content, forms, and data - supporting consistent messaging and streamlined digital engagement across all your digital touchpoints.

Modern DXP platforms like Squiz DXP are built to grow seamlessly with your business needs. Here's how Squiz DXP ensures scalability:

• Automatic infrastructure scaling: The platform automatically detects traffic spikes and adjusts server resources instantly through SaaS delivery - meaning your website stays fast and responsive whether you have 100 visitors or 100,000, without any manual intervention required.

• Multi-site management: You can manage multiple websites from a single platform. Squiz DXP customers successfully manage hundreds of websites from one installation, allowing you to expand your digital presence without multiplying your management complexity.

• Composable architecture: This flexible foundation allows you to add new capabilities and features as your needs evolve, without disrupting existing systems or requiring complete rebuilds. Think of it like adding rooms to a house without having to tear down the existing structure.

• Centralized control: Manage all your content, digital assets, and personalization across multiple sites from one unified platform, making it easier to maintain consistency and efficiency as you scale.

This approach contrasts with traditional CMS solutions that often struggle with high-traffic demands or require expensive system overhauls as organizations grow. Squiz DXP's enterprise-grade architecture ensures your digital experiences can evolve alongside your organization.

Selecting the right platform requires careful consideration of both your current situation and future growth plans. Here are the key factors to evaluate:

• Current platform assessment: Consider whether your existing CMS is becoming difficult to maintain, has poor content governance, or lacks support for your evolving business needs. These are strong indicators that it's time to explore alternatives.

• Budget and ongoing costs: Factor in not just initial costs, but long-term expenses including upgrade costs, ongoing maintenance, and potential scalability investments. A platform that seems cheaper initially may become more expensive as your needs grow.

• Content governance: Evaluate how well a platform supports your content approval processes, user permissions, and compliance requirements. Strong governance becomes increasingly important as your organization scales.

• Future-proofing: Look for platforms that can adapt to changing technology landscapes and business requirements without requiring complete system overhauls.

• Migration flexibility: Consider platforms that offer practical transition pathways. Squiz DXP enables you to "come as you are" - offering the ability to pilot new pages or subsites in parallel with your existing platform. This means you can shift rapidly without the stress of migrating everything before you can start building new experiences.

Squiz DXP is designed to empower both technical and non-technical users with intuitive tools that reduce reliance on developers. Here's how different team members can work effectively:

• Content creation: The Visual Page Builder enables true in-context editing with drag-and-drop functionality. Content editors can self-serve from a library of pre-approved components such as accordions, carousels and callouts, making it easy to create rich, engaging content without coding knowledge.

• Personalization and A/B testing: Non-technical marketers can independently set up personalization rules and A/B testing campaigns directly within the page builder, eliminating the need to wait for developer availability for these critical marketing activities.

• Intuitive forms: The drag-and-drop forms builder allows teams to create complex forms with conditional logic without requiring coding skills.

• Developer benefits: By empowering content editors and marketers to handle day-to-day content management, developers are freed from routine support requests. This allows development teams to focus their time and expertise on more strategic, value-add projects rather than simple content updates.

This user-friendly approach helps organizations reduce development bottlenecks and enables faster time-to-market for complex, enterprise-scale digital initiatives.

Squiz DXP offers better long-term value for large-scale websites with:

• Predictable scaling costs: While initial investment is higher than traditional CMS or headless platforms, you avoid escalating costs of developer maintenance and ongoing customization typically required.

• Reduced technical overhead: Empowers marketing and content teams with no-code tools and pre-built components, eliminating development bottlenecks for routine content and personalization tasks.

• Built-in maintenance: As a SaaS platform, security updates, feature upgrades, and maintenance are included in pricing, contrasting with traditional CMS solutions where these create additional workload and costs.

• All-in-one platform: Comprehensive toolkit includes personalization, content management, and analytics without requiring multiple third-party plugin licenses and integration work.

• Faster deployment and ROI: Composable architecture means new features can be implemented incrementally without disrupting existing systems, accelerating time-to-value.

• Future-proof scaling: Architecture supports seamless growth without requiring costly system overhauls as traffic and complexity increase.

• Integration flexibility: API-first approach allows organizations to retain valuable existing tools while adding new capabilities, protecting technology investments.

Unlike traditional CMS or headless solutions that appear cheaper initially but accumulate costs through developer dependencies, plugin licenses, and maintenance overhead, Squiz DXP's comprehensive platform offers better cost control and efficiency for complex, enterprise-level websites. While the upfront investment can be higher, organizations typically achieve significant long-term savings through reduced technical dependencies, streamlined operations, and simplified maintenance.