Spec Sheet
How Enonic Fits Your Requirements
Why choosing the right digital platform is important
Consumer behaviour is turning increasingly digital. And for the world of B2B, researching products and services is performed almost exclusively online—on computers, tablets, phones, and even indirectly through the Internet of Things, wearables, digital signage, and APIs.
This means that your customer journey is more important than ever before. If you want to not just stay ahead of your competitors, but to survive the digital disruption overall, you need a future-proof, flexible, and agile digital platform.
Reaching out to your actual and potential customers today can be done through a limitless array of digital channels. At the same time, development and progress in digital technologies are moving blazingly fast. And on top of this comes the increased customer expectations and demands. Customers simply will not settle for slow websites, clunky apps, or bad user experiences any longer.
We believe Enonic can help your organisation solve and overcome all of these challenges—being future-proof, flexible, agile, omnichannel-ready, and enabling a superb customer journey.
Now, let us delve into the technical specifics of this bold claim.
Enonic’s philosophy
Enonic’s philosophy can essentially be summarised in two words: content first. At the heart of all your digital experiences lies content—meaningful, helpful, and engaging content for your customers. Fancy visuals, cool functionality, and a fast and responsive website or app are empty shells without great content in the foundations.
What “content first” means is that the Enonic platform is built for creating, editing, and distributing your precious content as efficiently as possible. By default, our platform treats every content item as structured—meaning it is of a certain type, has the same characteristics as other content items of its kind, and can be re-used in countless ways as a result.
For instance, all content items of the type “page” can only act in a certain way and be used in a specific manner—by your instructions. The same goes for “blog,” “person,” “case study,” “service,” “image,” “document,” and so forth. Content types are tailor-made for each customer, and their operations and logic are entirely up to you.
As a result of our content first philosophy, we are neither a classic CMS nor a headless CMS—we are both! We offer a hybrid CMS, taking page building, content organisation, image handling, URL management, and more from the classic CMS, while simultaneously offering the lightweight database and API approach from the headless CMS for omnichannel distribution.
In this way, you can use Enonic as your project requires. If you want to make a complex website, do it with our classic CMS capabilities. If you want to build an app, please go ahead with our headless functionality. If you want a mixture, you can of course do that too. Your content is always at the centre of our platform, and only your imagination sets the limit for its usage.
How Enonic benefits internal stakeholders
Enonic aims to appeal to all the relevant groups of internal stakeholders in your organisation. While some digital platforms aim to please the developers, others seek to cater mainly to the editors’ needs. In Enonic, we built our platform from scratch in 2015 in order to help unify your organisation—including business, marketing, and IT.
Business and decision makers
- Pricing model
Predictable pricing model with clearly defined tiers and the possibility to upgrade or downgrade capacity after need.
- Scalability
Back-end cluster technology coupled with front-end content management allows for fast increase or decrease in required server capacity.
- Predictability
Serving several high-profile customers combined with ISO 9001 certification and the transparency of an open-source platform makes Enonic a stable and predictable partner.
- Trust
Enonic is fully dependent on gaining and keeping the confidence of our customers, through great customer service, a robust platform, and facilitating open technologies and processes.
Marketing and web editors
- Productivity and user-friendliness
Our CMS, Content Studio, is made especially for content editors, emphasising an intuitive and responsive UI, smart image handling, visual page editor, familiar keyboard shortcuts, and collaboration through issue management.
- Flexibility
Create any type of digital experience most befitting your marketing strategy—like self service, logistics system, or blog—and create any content type you need—like articles, profiles, events, or redirects. And then work within a classical CMS framework and distribute your content headlessly.
- Marketing tools integrations
Enonic offers a lightweight and flexible core, ready to integrate with the best-of-breed third-party marketing tool of your choice—like HubSpot, Google Analytics, or SEO meta fields.
IT and developers
- Open source
Developers get full insight into the source code and what is being planned, through GitHub, the Enonic documentation, and our company portal.
- JavaScript
Enonic uses server-side JavaScript, and as any web developer can understand the language, starting and running new projects with Enonic is a fast and smooth process.
- Infrastructure
Enonic runs in any cloud thanks to the powerful Java Virtual Machine, but we also offer our own, fully managed cloud platform to meet the requirements of modern web and app development.
- Interoperability
Enonic is designed to integrate with your existing systems, architecture, and skill set. You can integrate with any core system using APIs and ready-made concepts like ID Providers, MVC controllers, admin interface widgets, etc.
Rich Text Editor
Image Handling
Landing page editor
Structured content
Version control
Access rights
Scheduling
Accessibility
SEO capabilities
App market
Headless support
Responsive admin console
Easy to manage page templates
Marketing tools integrations
Responsive preview
Support for user generated content
Workflow
Editor search function
Batch publishing
Language support
Form builder
More Features
- Performance
Enonic is built to scale in both platform and cloud, with a distributed architecture, performance tests, and multiple deployment strategies available.
- Reliability
Trusted by large Norwegian brands like Norway Post, Gjensidige, Norsk Tipping, TINE, Eliteserien, KLP, Storebrand, and NAV, Enonic continuously strives to be a reliable vendor—through open technology, quality systems, and an ISO-9001 certification.
- Security
Enonic follows OWASP principles in security testing, every code change is verified by more than 5,500 automated tests, and all major releases are tested by an external white hat agency.
- Flexibility
Enonic offers flexible pricing and product offering, suited for both mainstream and custom solutions. The platform is also by its very nature flexible, offering the mentioned alternatives of classic, headless, and/or hybrid CMS.
- Technology
We use modern technologies in our work, like web APIs, GraphQL, JavaScript, Gradle, and Kubernetes, and with them we have built the CMS interface Content Studio, the web application platform Enonic XP, and the Experience as a Service Enonic XC.
- Cloud or on-premise
Whether to run your digital experiences on premises, with a cloud vendor, or with Enonic is entirely up to you, thanks to our powerful and flexible platform.
- Training
Customer success is invaluable to us, and that is why we aim to empower developers and content editors alike with our training courses and guides.
- Support
You can always count on support in one way or another from dedicated Enonic experts, whether it is through Enonic Support, Slack, online forum, or even Meetups.
Technical overview
Enonic XP is a full stack JavaScript application platform and CMS in one, and offers the essential services and tools required to build and maintain highly scalable web apps and sites.
Build your own applications, or use existing ones from Enonic Market. Applications are primarily written in JavaScript, but can also include Java, as the platform runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine.
- Application runtime
- JavaScript development framework
- NoSQL storage for your data
- Identity and Access Management—IAM
- Extensible admin console for back-office users
- Hybrid content management system when needed
- Remote management API
- Statistics API for metrics and monitoring
- CLI and software development kit
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