Unlocking Sitecore productivity
- ECM.DEV
- Sep 12
- 2 min read
If someone drops “371% ROI” in your next board meeting, you’ll sit up. Feels exciting. But before you assume that translates into magic in your own content machine, there’s more to unpack.
Because here’s what’s really going on: Sitecore’s study doesn’t just celebrate flashy results. It celebrates cleaner workflows, faster publishing, and less overhead. All the stuff that usually lives in the margins.
What CMS productivity looks like in practice
Cut down the number of environments you maintain (no more “one for dev, one for staging, one for legacy clients, one for global brand, etc.”).
Speed up reviews, approvals, especially localization — those are often the slowest parts.
Governance and standards matter. If your brand or compliance folks aren’t aligned, ROI drops fast.
What you'll have to navigate
Do you want to be locked into one SaaS vendor, or maintain flexibility (at a cost)?
Are you ready to shift budgets from infrastructure/migrations to ongoing subscriptions and content operations?
Can your culture evolve: from heavy handoffs and siloed teams toward feedback loops and faster iteration?
Who will win, who will feel the pain
If you're in retail, telco, or finance and have a footprint in several countries or brands, gains can stack up fast. But if your content stack is already lean, or heavily customized, migration and change cost may eat into those gains — at least initially.
Question for you: What’s the #1 metric your content team wishes they could improve right now? Cycle time? Content rework? Localization lag?
If you want help mapping your baseline, your costs, and identifying where you can pick up the low-hanging fruit, reach out. At ecm.dev we run a two-week “SaaS Readiness” assessment that surfaces that kind of insight.