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The smarter Sitecore alternative

More flexibility, speed, and innovation - at better value

Sitecore customers know the pain of a packaged solution that's hard to integrate, requires costly customizations, forces you into pricey tool bundles, and surprises you with extra costs with every add-on. It keeps you locked in a rigid suite with complex tools that often go unused. Why overpay for a platform that slows you down? 

Launch, adapt and grow faster with CoreMedia – on your terms: 

  • Your tools, your choice – Integrate anything, from your existing tech stack to the latest AI, without vendor restrictions. 

  • No wasted spend – Stop paying for bundled extras you don’t need, only pay for the tools you choose to use. 

  • Go live faster – Our proven blueprint and ready-to-go feature set give you a head start, without compromising the flexibility to adapt them to your needs. 

Break free from Sitecore’s high-maintenance, one-size-fits-all approach. Switch to CoreMedia’s composable DXP in just 90 days to lower operational costs, boost productivity, and maximize ROI. 

The smarter Sitecore alternative
Why migrate to CoreMedia

Only pay for what you need

Ditch the complex product portfolio and outdated, poorly integrated product acquisitions. With our composable platform, you only pay for the tools that support your needs. 

Simpler integration with third parties

Add top-tier CRM, DAM, PIM, and more to your CMS. Keep the tools that drive results and swap out what’s no longer needed - without the hassle of a rebuild. 

Industry leading eCommerce connectors

Leverage the deepest pre-built integrations for platforms like Salesforce, Commerce tools, SAP, Elastic Path, and others – cutting down on implementation time. 

Ready-to-go blueprint

No need to build everything from scratch with our solid blueprint and proven configurations, while keeping the flexibility to adjust it to your needs. 

Transparent pricing – no hidden costs

Ensure you only pay for what you truly need with our flexible, transparent pricing model. No expensive forced cloud migration or surprise licensing costs.

Let your tech work for you

Build any frontend, with any framework, and stay agile with AI-powered workflows, adaptable layouts, and dynamic customer experiences. 

Fast content delivery – anywhere, anytime

Launch campaigns effectively across more touchpoints than any other DXP. Localization and publication workflows make omnichannel content management easy, even without technical skills.  

Content previews made easy

See exactly how your content will appear across different devices and for different users from the same interface. 

Effortless migration

Our expert guidance ensures a smooth migration process, minimizing risk, costs, and complexity. Complete migration in as little as 90 days. 

Benefits

Some Sitecore projects take 1-2 years to go live. Say goodbye to slow rollouts, a complex product portfolio, and a legacy framework that requires specialist-heavy development.

With CoreMedia, you can get up and running in just weeks, not months or even years. Our blueprint provides a solid foundation, reducing the need to build everything from scratch. Our modern hybrid headless architecture, seamless third-party integrations, and ready-to-go eCommerce connectors let you launch quickly, while maintaining the flexibility to innovate without the added complexity, steep learning curve or costly experts.

Sitecore’s licensing, development, and maintenance costs add up quickly, especially businesses without specialized development resources. Why pay for a full DXP with complex, overlapping features that you don’t fully use?  

CoreMedia requires fewer customizations, leading to lower long-term maintenance and operational costs. Choosing a CMS is a big decision but with the right choice, you avoid costly migrations in the future. Trusted brands like Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bahn, Henkel and Claas have relied on CoreMedia for decades, getting maximum value with a future-proof setup that scales on their terms. 

Sitecore’s full DXP is built through multiple niche acquisitions – often with limited integration, forcing you to spend extra on development just to make things work. Plus, its bundled approach makes integrating external tools difficult and leaves you stuck paying for tools you don’t want. 

CoreMedia takes a smarter approach. Its modular architecture allows you to select only the tools that drive your success - whether it’s personalization, analytics, DAM, or marketing automation. With 150+ pre-built connectors and composable built-in solutions, you can build the tech steck that truly fits your needs. 

Freedom to innovate goes beyond technology - it’s about people empowerment. With CoreMedia, your developers gain full control over customization and extensions, utilizing our open API framework and cloud-native capabilities. 

Imagine boosting revenue by delivering personalized, multilingual content that resonates with customers at every touchpoint, across every channel. Easy, with CoreMedia: You can launch 75% faster using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and automated localization workflows – without dependencies on IT.  

Empower your content teams with CoreMedia KIO Co-Pilot - an intelligent assistant that simplifies complex workflows, personalizes content, and helps create engaging experiences across multiple channels in record time. With built-in analytics and optimization, CoreMedia ensures you deliver the right content, at the right time, driving conversions and maximizing impact. 

The best Sitecore alternative

Choosing the right CMS shouldn’t be complicated. Here’s how CoreMedia differentiates from Sitecore.  

Pricing

Sitecore: Complex, premium pricing 

A premium-priced CMS with a complex licensing model that makes scaling unpredictable. Bundled pricing makes businesses often pay for unused features while facing unexpected costs for implementation, training, migration, add-ons and maintenance, making financial planning difficult. 

CoreMedia: Transparent, fair, flexible pricing 

Pay only for the features and services you need - no unnecessary expenses. Our composable architecture ensures a cost-efficient Sitecore alternative that is tailored to your business, without overpaying for features you don’t want. 

Choose the best solution for your needs, don’t overspend just for the biggest name. 

Level of integrations

Sitecore: Challenging integrations and complex compatibility 

While integration is possible, it often requires custom development. Its complex, packaged solution can be difficult to connect with third-party tools - and even within its own product suite. Users frequently face challenges in maintaining compatibility, handling real-time updates, and ensuring consistent system performance, especially with added customizations and integrations. 

CoreMedia: Composable and future-proof 

Stay in control with a truly composable approach. Leverage a composable offering of personalization, optimization and testing tools or choose from 150+ pre-built connectors to seamlessly integrate the best tools for your business - whether it’s eCommerce, marketing automation, analytics, DAM, CDP, the latest AI or any legacy tools.  

Keep what works, replace what doesn’t, and future-proof your tech stack.  

Flexibility

Sitecore: Packaged and inflexible 

A complex, packaged solution that’s hard to integrate. Built through acquisitions, it often requires custom development to function smoothly, even within its own suite. With an outdated platform, innovation lags behind modern CMS needs.  

CoreMedia: Freedom to innovate  

Give your teams the freedom to innovate with a fully extensible, customizable platform. Developers can integrate with leading third-party apps to build what they want, the way they want it. Marketers can easily coordinate global campaigns from a single interface. Editors can reduce time-to-web from weeks to hours—or even minutes. CoreMedia KIO, an intelligent AI Copilot automates processes at every stage - from analyzing vast data sets to delivering tailored digital experiences and empowering users with real-time insights. 

Take back control to innovate on your terms, without unnecessary lock-ins or developer dependencies.  

Usability and support

Sitecore: Hard to learn, costly to maintain 

Known for its steep learning curve, reliance on specialized training, costly professional services and delays in support. Non-technical users struggle with an unintuitive interface, making it difficult to realize the platform's full potential.   

CoreMedia: Expertise that feels like part of your team 

We’ve got your back. You’ll have a dedicated account manager who understands your needs and provides direct support. Our team of 700+ trained experts, combined with our global community, ensures a smooth migration, rapid deployment, and faster results.  

With our enablement platform and integrated conversational AI training, we provide ongoing support for long-term success. Editors can easily launch campaigns without needing IT expertise. Instantly preview content across different devices and campaign scenarios, making it simple to deliver high-impact results. 

Deployment and development

Sitecore: Costly, high-effort cloud migrations

Transitioning to Sitecore XM Cloud is resource-intensive and expensive, often requiring additional internal dev teams or external agency support. Migrating from legacy Sitecore XP and XM demands significant effort, and the SaaS model frequently comes at a higher price than PaaS or self-hosted options - without always delivering proportional value. 

CoreMedia: Stable on-premises or on-cloud deployments  

With CoreMedia’s Content Cloud Deployment Self-Service, you can streamline your deployments and be assured that you are always deploying to a stable working version of your production environment. If you're moving from on-premises to the cloud, we make it a low-risk, cost-effective process.

Low-risk migration in less than 90 days

Replacing Sitecore and migrating to another CMS seems complex, but with the right approach, it’s easier than you think. Our smooth migration process and expert-led team ensure a seamless transition - moving all your content, users, metadata, and assets with zero disruptions and maximum efficiency. 

Coming from Sitecore, we start with a thorough assessment to map your content to the CoreMedia model. A discovery phase helps determine what needs to be migrated, streamlining the process. From a technical perspective, we extract content using Sitecore APIs, transform it for CoreMedia, and import it via CoreMedia’s ingest service. By employing a smart agile methodology, Enterprise Ireland migrated to CoreMedia within just 90 days. 

Enterprise Ireland website

“CoreMedia's latest technology standards enable us to launch websites faster than ever before and prepare us for the future” 

Martin Schönfeld, Head of Digital Platform and Technology Management, Henkel

"CoreMedia's built-in DAM capabilities, unified content management, and scalable infrastructure made it an easy decision for us. It seamlessly integrates with our tech-stack and significantly enhances our content management workflows." 

Ramin Khoschandam, Product Owner, Phoenix Contact GmbH

"For over two decades, we’ve been continuously improving with CoreMedia to deliver relevant content where it needs to be seen.”  

Vito Rollo, Head of Customer Insight (Global IT), CLAAS

"We recommend CoreMedia as a scalable, flexible, reliable, highly secure CMS with a best of breed approach." 

André Fialho, Business Developer Manager, init

"We are choosing CoreMedia very often for high-traffic projects, that involve many customers and many editors." 

Stephan Stechow, Head of Strategic Alliances, Bitgrip

"The German Bundestag uses CoreMedia as their CMS for 10 years. They handle a lot of content, so security and scalability are huge factors. The website hasn't been down for the last few years." 

Klemens Mangl, Team Lead Project Management, Babiel

"What stands out with CoreMedia is the stability of the product. I never saw CoreMedia failing in over 20 years." 

Jörg Forchner, Portfolio Topic Lead, Content Management Experience (CMX), Telekom MMS

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