Platform & Architecture
There are a number of differences between headless and decoupled platforms; these include:
- Flexible content models that allow you to describe your data in the headless platforms.
- Advanced APIs that can use query languages for APIs like GraphQL.
- Headless platforms are designed to deliver content quickly and efficiently without any overhead.
- Decoupled platforms are generally connected to a display layer templating language for building user interfaces.
- Headless platforms may not have any display of layer templating. Hybrid platforms like Core dna do still offer templating languages and admin interfaces for the convenience of admins.
- A high degree of customization & flexibility for developers in the headless platform.
Pros
- Flexible developer environment to create and manage content across multiple channels
- Ability to create and deploy tailored customer experiences quickly
- Ability to learn, change and iterate direction quickly
- Share content programmatically with other systems
- Create workflows and recurring processes that communicate with the platform and other systems
- Advanced security provided by simple interactions through APIs
- Improved performance, ability to create static content and have websites that are fast
- Scale, ability to handle peaks and large volumes of website content from a single source
Cons
To stay ahead of the curve in the fast-changing digital landscape, companies must have content management systems that are quick to adapt and scale efficiently. A headless platform separates your content backend from the frontend presentation layer opening up myriad possibilities for organizations’ digital experiences. This below we explain how adopting a headless architecture can change your digital business.
What is the technical architecture & integration
Microservices-Based Foundation
Headless platforms rely on microservices to provide higher speed and flexibility. They break down functionality into independent services that are then combined to create a complete solution. Organizations can scale specific components as needed without affecting the entire system. For instance, during peak sales periods, an e-commerce company may increase its product catalog service while maintaining normal capacity for its blog content service.
A DXP or Digital experience platform is a central technogical foundation to be built upon and to support the entire, continuous customer life cycle across all digital channels.
- From one platform, one login, brands and business can manage content, assets, and interactions across multiple different channels.
- It allows multichannel delivery via APIs of digital interactions across all touchpoints, including Iot, AR/VR, digital assistants and kiosks.
- It helps efficiently and effectively create, store, publish and optimize content for any channel – whether it’s a website,
mobile app, or social media page. - It's a platform where business and IT with various skills and responsibilities work together towards the common goal of customer experience improvement.
- It helps tracks user behavior on your websites, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time.
- It integrates with your tech stack for increased personalization and engagement with customers, and gather
customer insights from data analytics. - Here is how claude ai thinks of the Core dna DXP platform
Unlike a traditional CMS/eCommerce, which combines content management and front-end delivery, a headless platform has a flexible front-end system to determine how the content is created and presented to the end user. It’s front-end agnostic, meaning that your content is created raw and can be published anywhere, through any framework, thanks to built-in APIs.
Coredna is not only a headless platform but also a hybrid headless Platform. We recognized that Marketers still need the flexibility of an easy to use administration, so we created a fully functioning DXP administration panel that allows the marketer to have a dashboard and the ability to manage multiple websites. With the Headless features of the Core dna DXP you can also create a customized publishing platform, this can be useful if you want to simplify administration functions or create a custom user experience.
Standard plans do not require any fixed contracts. There is a simple agreement that covers the use of the software and the content you may produce. For our enterprise clients, we do sign contracts to cover custom setup, extended SLAs and ongoing support.
A platform that balances marketing and IT needs.
A Digital experience platform or DXP allows brands to deliver personalized content based on customer's digital footprint.
A 15-minute overview of different marketing, eCommerce & intranet solutions that run on Core dna.
A 15-minute overview of the administration panel for Core dna's digital experience platform (DXP).
Core dna is a unified digital platform that combines content management, ecommerce, integrations, and workflow orchestration in one system. Instead of stitching together separate CMS tools, commerce engines, and middleware, Core dna brings those capabilities into a single platform that teams can manage and extend from one place.
There is no setup or onboarding fee to use Core dna. We provide all the training material to learn how to use the platform. If your team requires technical training to use the templating and API environment we have team members and partners who can conduct this training.
There is no limit to the number of sites that can be managed from your account. Adding a new site to your existing setup is a simple process that generally takes 24hrs.
Setting up a website is a detailed process, we don't offer a free trial of the product. We do, however, offer access to a sandbox environment so you can see how Core dna works. Book a sandbox here
We don’t like charging overages because we understand there is a fluctuation between your traffic month-to-month. We do take a longer term view of your site traffic and will consult with you before we charge any overages. In many cases we establish a yearly traffic volume and bill any variants plus or minus to cover spikes during the year.
A "Request" is a call to Core dna engine over the Internet which resolves as a dynamic web page or structured data content. For example, AJAX requests, headless queries, and REST API calls.
This excludes calls to static assets that are normally served by the CDN (Content Delivery Network), such as images, fonts, JS files, CSS files, etc.