Slow performance
Like typical monolithic systems it is slow and requires heavy duty caching to get performance and SEO benefits, sometimes defeating personalization gains.
Stackbit is the best way to create websites and apps
Migrate from Optimizely
to drive more impact
and increase your efficiency
with Stackbit
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4 reasons companies upgrade from Episerver/Optimizely
Limited tech stack
.NET is natively supported, with hosting either being managed or on Azure. Decoupling from those platforms is possible but time and effort consuming.
Lack of innovation
It's an old, complex and outdated system. For example, while upgrading to a new .net version, no new features had shipped for six months.
Smaller talent pool
Companies need specialist trained Episerver developers and these are harder to find and even harder to get excited with an old product and architecture.
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Replatforming Guidelines
Reference architectures
Picking the right content models and architecture is critical when moving to a new headless CMS. This sample reference architecture explains the tradeoffs between one and multiple content spaces.
Factors of great websites
This piece outlines 10 characteristic you should consider when thinking about upgrading your sites' architecture and tooling. It was built with long years of our personal experience and of our clients'.
Step-by-step
Migration overview
1. Go Headless (Episerver Content Delivery API)
2. Single-step or gradual migration?
3. Export your Optimizely (Episerver) content
4. Import code and content into a modern website
5. Launch your new site!
Stackbit works with all headless CMS
Stackbit supports any content source
Marketing & Content Ops
Visually assemble pages, re-use components, modify layouts, and more — all without developer dependence.
Launch pages in minutes not months.
Developers & UX
Build amazing components, blocks, and templates. Easily make your website(s) visually editable without re-architecting or adding dependencies.
Assemble award-winning experiences, every time.
Digital Leaders
Give your team the right tools to make a fast and efficient business impact, all while mitigating risks with just the right guardrails.
No new headaches in production.
Key Benefits
Increased efficiency
No more navigating complex forms, content models, and schemas. Edit in context, naturally.
- Make changes, iterations, and variations, in minutes, not months.
- Identify the content you'd like to edit on-screen, click, type, and that's it
- All content is sent back to headless source via APIs, ensuring authoring and editing are fast
Faster time to market
Create experiences fast from your implemented templates, presets, and component library.
- One file configuration to unlock real-time previews.
- Make code changes, and preview in real-time.
- Edit content in Stackbit or headless source and preview in real-time.
Cost containment
Stackbit maximizes the investments in a composable headless stack for a lower total cost of ownership.
- Shave 80% of the total licence fee (OPEX) from legacy DXP offerings
- More budget for projects (CAPEX)
- Be the hero with more efficient and effective project delivery
Developers + Designers
Develop locally, preview and test in Stackbit
Import from your GitHub repo and run a full development container powered by Stackbit.
Bring your design system, web framework and components.
Fully develop & test locally with Local Development mode. Deploy anywhere.
No new dependencies or APIs to call in your production site.
Developers + Marketing + Content Ops
Preview content and code changes: faster, together
All it takes is one config file included in your codebase to see and edit content from Contenful, Sanity or other CMS on screen, just like your end users would.
- One file configuration to unlock real-time previews.
- Make code changes, and preview in real-time.
- Edit content in Stackbit or Contenful, Sanity or other CMS and preview in real-time.
Stackbit always sends changes back to the system of record for code and content, so rest assured there are never any data sync issues.
Marketing + Content Ops
Edit fast, on-the-glass
Make changes, iterations, and variations, in minutes not months.
Make changes, iterations, and variations, in minutes, not months.
Identify the content you'd like to edit on-screen, click, type, and that's it
All content is sent back to Contenful, Sanity or other CMS via APIs, ensuring authoring and editing are fast
No more navigating complex forms, content models, and schemas. Edit in context, naturally.
DEVELOPERS + MARKETING + CONTENT OPS
Create pages from amazing templates
Developers and designers can setup ready-to-go templates, accelerating page creation 10x.
Launch product and campaign pages fast
Ensure best practices for design, conversion, and SEO are part of the template
Marketing and content ops have full autonomy to launch without developer dependency.
Marketing + Content Ops
Reusable blocks across your website
Create visually stunning reusable blocks of content, imagery, design, and code.
Click to add existing or create from new and view your full catalogue of components
Components are powered by content types in Contenful, Sanity or other CMS
Re-use presets one-to-many times across your website
No more copy-pasting or problems with duplicating efforts.