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Farewell, Adobe Business Catalyst – What’s Next?
At this time two years ago, we encouraged B2B companies to use Adobe Business Catalyst – our website content management system (WCMS) of choice.
Sadly and unexpectedly, Business Catalyst announced that they will end-of-life the platform by March 26, 2020. Adobe originally wanted to pull the plug in 2018, but pushed the date back as torches were lit and pitchforks were being sharpened. This leaves more than 700,000 websites currently hosted on Adobe with the daunting task of migrating to another platform.
Choosing a WCMS for your B2B website can be a struggle. There are so many – trendy platforms entice you with promises of do-it-yourself website designs and minimal prices.
… Continue Reading >>Adobe Business Catalyst: Far Better than WordPress for B2B Small Business
Update: Adobe has announced the end of life for Adobe Business Catalyst as of March 25, 2021. Contact us to learn the best options to migrate your website.
As an Adobe Business Catalyst partner for over five years, I’m often asked why this web content management software (WCMS) is so effective for business-to-business (B2B) marketing for small and mid-sized (SMB) businesses. Having worked with WordPress for numerous years, as well as Joomla, Drupal, Modx, Umbraco, Miva, Adobe Muse, American Eagle, Ruby on Rails, Tridion, HubSpot, and good ol’ straight HTML, here’s why Adobe Business Catalyst continues to make so much sense for our clients and for us (this is an Adobe Business Catalyst website).
… Continue Reading >>Adobe Business Catalyst vs. WordPress
For small and mid-sized business, WordPress has become the defacto web content management software (WCMS) of choice. However, is it the best?
We’ve developed and edited hundreds of websites in both WordPress and Adobe Business Catalyst, and we’ve found the latter to be a much better option for SMBs. This is why we became an Adobe Business Catalyst partner four years ago.
Compare WordPress and Adobe Business Catalyst for yourself:
Feature Adobe Business Catalyst (ABC) WordPress (WP) CMS Developer Adobe WordPress.com (open source) CMS Type Pure cloud Hosted software Code Type HTML PHP Software Updates Automatic: rolled out by Adobe each week You have to update WP every 1-2 months, which may or may not be compatible with your plug-ins Hosting Amazon Web Services 3rd party hosting providers or your server Email Hosting Up to 10 emails included,… Continue Reading >>