How can Sitecore XM Cloud help your business reduce total cost of ownership?

Organization these days require a robust, scalable digital experience platform that can easily adapt to the changing customer needs and the evolving market trends. Sitecore, one of the leading digital experience providers in the world, offers a powerful solution “Sitecore XM Cloud” that enhances customer experiences and helps businesses reduce their TCO (Total Cost of Ownership.)

Through this blog, we will explore the cost efficiencies that Sitecore XM Cloud brings, and how it modernizes customer experiences.

Sitecore XM Cloud – a Brief Introduction

Sitecore XM Cloud is a composable, cloud-native CMS launched by Sitecore to provide brands with unparallel speed to market and build ease in creating omnichannel customer experiences. You can launch entire websites and deliver experiences to the customers on CLOUD.

This solution creates a seamless flow across multiple channels and digital touchpoints to build seamless engagement. When you invest in Sitecore XM Cloud, you can expect an increase in the time to market, a reduction in the TCO, a reduction in deployment efforts when it comes to new features, more tech talent retention, increased productivity, and stronger collaboration.

Some of the major features of Sitecore XM Cloud are:

1. Sitecore Pages
2. Multi-site Management
3. Sitecore Component Builder
4. DevOps Tools
5. Cloud Portal

Along with that, the benefits and perks of Sitecore XM Cloud are:

1. Continued Innovation
2. Elastic Scaling
3. Composability
4. On-the-fly Engagement
5. Multi-channel Content Management

What can your business get through Sitecore XM Cloud?

1. Visual Authoring Experience
2. Blazing-fast Performance
3. Exceptional Freedom
4. Simplicity for Marketers
5. Developer Agility

Sitecore XM Cloud is headless, can be used as a SaaS platform, developer-friendly, and allows customization. Your content experience objectives and commerce management goals can be taken to the next level when it comes to using this tool.

How does Sitecore XM Cloud help in reducing the TCO?

1. Enhanced agility as well as efficiency

   XM Cloud’s architecture brings unprecedented levels of agility and efficiency to your operations. It eliminates the need to get on-premises infrastructure and IT resources, thus significantly reducing hardware and maintenance costs.

   The cloud-based model also allows your business to scale your digital presence effortlessly and supports increasing web traffic without any additional hardware requirements.

2. All content management is centralized

   You can have seamless collaboration across your teams and streamline all your content updates because Sitecore XM Cloud centralizes content management for you. This reduces duplication efforts, discrepancies in content, and the need for excessive governance. Thus, it is ultimately reducing administrative overheads.

   The intuitive interface also empowers your marketing team and content managers to easily reduce the dependency on the technical teams.

3. Personalization at scale

   One of the major standout features of Sitecore XM Cloud is its ability to deliver personalized experiences. You can leverage the user data and the machine learning capabilities of this platform to provide content that is highly relevant.

   The cost-saving aspect of this lies in the optimized customer journeys that will lead to reduced churn rate and acquisition costs for customers.

4. Advantage in time-to-market

   The comprehensive set of out-of-the-box features offered by Sitecore XM Cloud reduces the development time by a lot. Your business can capitalize on pre-built templates, modules and integrations and in turn, accelerate the time-to-market for new campaigns.

   Your business can also efficiently allocate resources and reduce time-sensitive operational costs.

5. Minimized downtime and reduced support costs

   XM Cloud’s architecture is designed with high availability and fault tolerance being kept in mind to ensure that the websites stay operational even if there are high traffic spikes. The cloud-based hosting offers robust security and automatic updates to reduce the risk of breaches.

6. Multilingual and multisite management

   For brands that are operating in the global markets, you need the ability to manage multiple sites and along with that require language efficiency. XM Cloud offers multilingual and multisite management capabilities and reduces the complexity of maintaining numerous websites and translations.

7. Improved productivity of developers

   Having a developer-friendly environment makes Sitecore XM Cloud the best choice for developers. They can build and deploy digital experiences with ease. The platform has extensive documentation and developer tools available to facilitate faster development cycle. This increases the productivity of the developers.

Conclusion

Embracing Sitecore XM Cloud enables organizations to redirect their resources to their core business activities, optimize customer experiences and stay ahead of the competition. As customer expectations and market trends continue to evolve, Sitecore XM Cloud remains to be an essential tool for providing unique digital experiences without breaking the bank.

Maulik Dudharejia - Co-Founder & CMO - ADDACT

Sitecore MVP 2021-23 || Digital Transformation Strategist || Marketer

Maulik Dudharejia is a visionary author, co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer, and a digital transformation expert with over 12+ years' of experience. He leverages industry certifications to translate complex tech concepts into engaging writing. His areas of expertise include Sitecore, IoT, and IT Service Management. Maulik offers valuable insights and strategies to help readers navigate the evolving tech landscape.