The digital marketing world is quickly evolving as the era of engagement arrives. Customer engagement is the new marketing imperative. So as new technologies, channels and opportunities become available, enterprises are realizing the need for dramatically improved functionality, personalization, multi-channel delivery and speed from their content management systems (CMS) in order to stay competitive.

However, many enterprises still have a legacy CMS that may have been in place for a decade or more, and are in need of major upgrades or replacement.

As a result, leading enterprises are looking toward a modern CMS to create and optimize engaging digital experiences across all online channels.

3 Reasons To Ditch Your Legacy CMS

1. Support customers and their devices 

Thanks to the rise of mobile, social and cloud technologies, customers are changing the way they do business with companies. Today customers want to be to able access content and offerings anytime, anywhere and from any device or application. This has created a need for easy access to content across all online digital channels and devices. One way enterprises can engage customers is to adopt a modern CMS that allows for personalized experiences, multi-channel delivery, and blazing fast performance. After all, delivering unique experiences to every user across a multitude of channels requires robustness that yesterday’s page-based content management systems will never handle.

2. Integrating Modern Technologies

One important ingredient to a modern CMS is the ability to integrate with best of breed and modern open source software. For example, look at enterprises struggling to close the sales and marketing divide to generate leads and close sales. Traditionally they don’t use the same technologies; sales teams tend to use a CRM system to track sales opportunities, while marketing departments typically utilize marketing automation and CMS software to create and optimize digital content, promotions and experiences. However, sales and marketing must work together, and if disparate technologies do not integrate well, then bad things happen — leads are dropped, customer relationships are damaged, and revenue is lost. This insidious problem illustrates why a modern CMS that seamlessly integrates with all other enterprise software, whether on-premise or in the cloud, must be utilized to drive higher marketing efficiency, higher sales, and higher customer loyalty.

3. Personalized Customer Experiences 

To engage customers most effectively, you need to speak to them on a one-to-one basis. Not to a persona. Not to a geography. One to one.

The most innovative enterprises are now using modern CMS platforms to personalize customers’ experiences based on who they are, what they’ve been searching for, sales history, social media engagement, what’s in their cart, and so forth. Market leading enterprises can even use this information to choose which products and/or services to promote based on profitability. As a result, they have a higher conversion rates, higher margins, and more satisfied customers.

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