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Custom CMS Development Services

In CMS development since 2011, ScienceSoft competently delivers custom CMS solutions that combine responsive UI, rich functionality, strong data security, and high scalability.

CMS Development Services - ScienceSoft
CMS Development Services - ScienceSoft

Content management system (CMS) development is needed to create intuitive, customizable, scalable, and SEO-oriented solutions for handling your corporate content. CMS development by ScienceSoft helps companies ensure prompt and cost-effective web content management and encourage website lead generation.

Why Opt for CMS Development Right Now

With a robust CMS, you can get the following benefits:

  • 230–400%

    annual CMS ROI due to an optimal feature value/cost ratio, cost-effective website development and optimized maintenance

  • +10–50%

    website traffic due to faster web content publishing and updating as a result of automation

  • +2–10%

    conversion rate due to integrations with SEO tools, user behavior analytics software, and more

  • 30–60%

    growth in content managers' productivity due to simplified content management (no technical skills like visual design or coding are required) and real-time collaboration on web content

  • 1.2–1.5x

    reduced number of content managers needed to handle a website due to efficient workflows, fast content creation and search, web content reuse, and more

Key CMS Features We Deliver

Content creation and storage

  • WYSIWYG editor and content templates.
  • Content hierarchy taxonomy.
  • Indexing and full-text search.
  • Integrated file managers.
  • AI-powered auto-tagging and metadata creation.
  • Content archiving.

CMS administration

  • Content governance.
  • Reporting and analytics (e.g., content usage, user behavior).
  • Integrated help desk.
  • Alerts and notifications (e.g., about content publishing, modification).

Content publishing and promotion

  • Built-in SEO tools and SEO-friendly URLs.
  • Customizable content approval and publishing workflows, including non-linear, multistep processes.
  • AI-driven content personalization (smart suggestions).
  • Multisite and multilanguage support.
  • Accessibility on mobile devices.

Security and compliance

  • Access control and multi-factor user authentication.
  • Role-based permissions.
  • Versioning and audit trail.
  • Content retention and deletion policies.
  • Technical compliance (e.g., WCAG 2).
  • Industry-specific compliance (e.g., GLBA, SOX, HIPAA).

Useful CMS Integrations We Implement

  • ERP
  • CRM
  • PIM
  • Ecommerce software
  • Marketing automation software
  • Social media
  • Collaboration solutions
  • BI solutions
  • Web analytics tools
  • CRO tools

Pavel Ilyusenko

Head of PMO at ScienceSoft

I usually recommend my clients to consider custom CMS development services if you need a flexible and convenient CMS tailored to your specific content management needs. Unlike out-of-the-box software, a custom CMS solution will contain only (and all) the features you need: e.g., built-in SEO tools, AI-based content personalization, multisite and multilanguage support, custom branding, integrations with legacy software, and more.

Our Experience of Working with CMS Solutions

What Our Customers Say

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What Makes ScienceSoft a Go-To CMS Development Company

  • 34 years in IT consulting and software development services, over 3,600 success stories.
  • 12 years in custom CMS development.
  • 130+ testimonials from our valued clients.

  • Senior PHP and Python developers, including experts in Symfony and Django frameworks.
  • Business analysts with 5­–9 years of experience in CMS.
  • Expertise in 30 industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, banking, and retail.
  • A quality-first approach based on a mature ISO 9001-compliant quality management system and deeply rooted in our team's mindset.
  • ISO 27001-certified security management based on comprehensive security controls, advanced technologies and security-first culture ingrained at ScienceSoft.
  • Our value-driven collaborative culture is recognized by IAOP, which has named ScienceSoft to its Global Outsourcing 100 list in 2022 and 2023.

Examples of CMS Capabilities ScienceSoft Can Implement

Streamline creating content for your intranet, portal or website due to an intuitive content editor

Accelerate content creation due to customizable templates

Facilitate content search due to CMS search filtering capabilities

Get full visibility into content management in your company

Optimize your website using built-in SEO tools to drive more conversions

Accelerate content publishing due to automated approval workflows

Enable content personalization based on user roles, locations, and more

Easily track changes in content due to CMS versioning capabilities

CMS Development Process

To give you an idea of what you can expect from our CMS developers, we outline the scope of a typical CMS project. However, our development team is ready to adjust the workflow to each customer’s unique situation.

Conceptualization stage

  • Analyzing a company’s information architecture and content management workflows.
  • Defining the content management needs.
  • Outlining a clear solution’s scope.
  • Specifying the future CMS users and their roles.

Planning stage

  • Deciding on a content governance strategy.
  • Defining the core CMS features.
  • Creating a CMS requirements specification.
  • Choosing a suitable platform/tech stack.
  • Planning CMS integrations with enterprise systems.
  • Creating a CMS development plan with tailored sets of KPIs, accurate estimates of the required efforts and investments, and a risk management plan.

Design stage

  • Designing content management workflows.
  • Outlining personas, mapping convenient user journeys, and creating a sleek visual style for the CMS app.
  • Building CMS prototypes.
  • Conducting usability testing of the prototypes.

Development stage

  • Developing a CMS solution from scratch or on the basis of the chosen platform.
  • Integrating the solution with the necessary corporate and third-party systems.

Testing and QA stage

  • Creating a CMS test plan, test scenarios and test cases.
  • Conducting comprehensive CMS testing.
  • Fixing the defects detected during the testing.

Data migration stage

  • Creating a data migration plan.
  • Defining the content eligible for migration.
  • Checking the legacy content for errors and duplication, outdated or inconsistent data.
  • Conducting content migration.
  • Testing the transferred data and content.

User training and launching stage

  • Creating comprehensive documentation on the CMS use.
  • Conducting training sessions for CMS users.
  • Performing user acceptance testing.
  • Collecting user feedback and implementing relevant improvements.
  • Launching the CMS to the production environment.
  • Knowledge transfer to the customer's software administration team.

After-launch support stage

  • Resolving user issues.
  • Adjusting the solution to the changing business needs.
  • Monitoring and improving CMS regulatory compliance.
  • Providing regular reports on the CMS health with recommendations on potential improvements.

The Financial Times Includes ScienceSoft USA Corporation in the List of the Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2023

For the second year in a row, ScienceSoft USA Corporation ranks among 500 American companies with the highest revenue growth. This achievement is the result of our unfailing commitment to provide high-quality IT services and create best-value solutions that meet and even exceed our clients’ expectations.

What You Will Get from ScienceSoft

Reliable and high-performing CMS architecture

We use multi-layered structure and microservices in developing CMS solutions. We also adhere to such architectural design principles as separation of concerns (SoC) and high concurrency.

Optimized CMS development costs

We apply proven third-party components and public APIs, which helps us reduce development costs. We also regularly monitor and optimize the use of cloud services.

Guaranteed CMS quality

We provide regular code reviews, integrated APM (application performance management), systematic QA with optimal test coverage, including unit testing, automated API and UI testing.

Fast CMS delivery

The first working version of a CMS solution is ready within 2–3 months due to the established Agile and DevOps practices of our CMS developers.

Technologies We Apply

Let Us Meet You Where You Are

Custom CMS development

To build a tailored CMS, we will:

  • Create an optimal CMS feature set.
  • Select a tech stack for CMS implementation.
  • Design CMS architecture and UX/UI.
  • Develop and test a CMS solution.
  • Conduct user training.
  • Perform CMS support and evolution (on demand).
I’m interested

Platform-based CMS development

To help you reduce CMS implementation costs, we will:

  • Select a fitting CMS platform.
  • Configure, customize, and integrate your CMS solution with legacy or third-party systems.
  • Provide QA and user training.
  • Perform CMS support and evolution (on demand).
I’m interested

CMS module development

To address your specific content management need, we will:

  • Create a requirements specification for a CMS module.
  • Design Architecture, UX and UI of a CMS module.
  • Develop a module and integrate it with your CMS solution.
  • Provide CMS module QA.
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Timeframes for Our CMS Development Services

  • MVP development: 2-3 months.
  • MVP with an innovative component: 4-6 months.
  • Creation of a CMS module with basic features (e.g., content creating, storing, organizing, publishing): 1-2 months.
  • Investment payback period: 0.4-1.2 years.
  • Releases: every 2-6 weeks.
  • Minor changes and hotfixes: several times a day.

CMS Implementation Costs

CMS development pricing ranges from $20,000 to $50,000 for a basic solution and from $150,000 to $400,000 for an advanced CMS that offers multilanguage support, AI-powered analytics and personalized suggestions, and more.

The costs depend on multiple factors such as the complexity of CMS features, the diversity of the content types, the overall volume of content, the number and complexity of content management workflows and integrations, and more. Please specify the relevant parameters below, and our rep will get back to you within 30 minutes to discuss your options.

Get CMS Cost Estimation

Please answer a few simple questions about your needs to help our experts calculate your CMS cost faster.

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*What type of CMS do you want to develop?

*What type of company do you represent?

*What implementation strategy do you prefer?

*What is the overall volume of content to be supported?

*What is the expected number of software users?

Do you need to migrate data from legacy software?

Do you need us to create templates for different page types?

What is the approximate number of templates?

Are you going to sell your software to:

*How many individuals will use your software, approximately?

*How many organizations are you planning to target, approximately?

*How many end users (individuals from all organizations) will use your software, approximately?

How many organizations are you planning to target, approximately?

*How many end users (individuals from all organizations and outside organizations) will use your software, approximately?

*What capabilities should your CMS provide?

*Which software version do you need?

*Would you require integrations with corporate systems or third-party services?

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With other corporate solutions, vendor systems, third-party services (user authentication, messaging), etc.

Are there any compliance requirements for your CMS? Choose all that apply.

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