Comparison of Costs

Starting at a certain volume of information the CMS saves costs pretty considerably, up to 80% in case of very big information volumes.

In the process of creating and administering websites manually using HTML edit-ors, most costs are generat-ed by outsourced professio-nal services as well as the amount of working hours spent on this issue inter-nally. In contrast to these costs, the efforts for hardware and software are negligible.

If you use a CMS, you will need more power-ful servers and, of course, the CMS itself. Due to this circumstance the initial costs for hardware and software are little higher. But, through the use of CMS, the time effort as well as the costs for exter-nal and internal services, are ratio-nalized.

Starting at a certain volume of information the CMS saves costs pretty considerably, up to 80% in case of very big information volumes.

Therefore it is not astonishing that 39% of the big companies already using a CMS, are doing so, because since the update of content is more simple and economic, the use of CMS becomes profitable within a short period of time.
25% of these companies use a CMS only to realize work flows, like for instance the release of an article by a chief editor, be-cause quality thereby increases relevant-ly.

12% of the total user group use CMS, be-cause suitable CMS help avoiding faulty link refers. Surely everyone is quite fam-il-i-ar with the web browser error mess-age 404 „File not found“.