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Upfront cost
The investment needed before there is a useful solution.
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$0
See instant results before spending a dime, euro, rupee, or cent.
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$20,000
The software may be 'free' but by default the standard style looks plain.Customizing the 'free' software requires the money to hiring people skilled in customizing the CMS.
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Level of Technical Expertise to evaluate
Evaluating software requires an understanding of your needs, the capabilities of the software, an understanding of what is possible, and what is difficult. Often outside consultants are hired to help with this evaluation.
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None
Try our my-mom-can-use-Amplafi promise! Our promise is to put you in charge. Not the computer. If something doesn't make sense, tell us and we will fix it (Even if you are not paying us anything!).
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High
Just setting up Drupal requires downloading, installing and configuring programs from multiple websites.
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Time effort to Evaluate
Evaluating software requires that the software be setup, configured, and loaded with meaningful test data.
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15 minutes
After signing up for an account, you can test Amplafi using your current website or our demonstration website.
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Multiple days
Evaluating a custom CMS solution requires using Google to research the issues/limitations about the particular CMS. Such information is scattered in on-line forums and not presented in one location. Also technical knowledge is necessary in many cases to understand the questions and answers. There are community resources to help in this area but learning who has valuable information and is interested in helping takes time.
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Level of 'Buy-in' to chosen solution
Once the evaluator has narrowed the possible solutions. Other stakeholders must also be consulted.
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Low
Amplafi is easy to try - and leave. We want happy customers not trapped customers. If you ever discover that Amplafi is no longer the best choice, we make it easy to switch.Of course we hope that you will let us know why you are thinking about switching. If you have a problem that we can correct,we would like to try satisfy you.
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High
Once a custom CMS solution like drupal, joomal, or plone has been chosen, it is very expensive to switch. Switching requires starting all over.
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Time before usable results
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15 minutes
When you are evaluating Amplafi, you get results that you can immediately use.
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6-9 months
Once a CMS platform is chosen, the business and organization must go through a long internal effort to decide how the CMS will be used, the expected benefits and permitted costs.
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Political investment
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None
Amplafi has "Don't-tell-your-boss" pricing and "Don't tell your boss" features. With Amplafi you don't have to face the endless meetings to convince everyone else that it is time to move from static webpages to something better.
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High
Using Drupal, joomla, plone requires a high level of commitment. The implementation cost, the time commitment, and the length of time before any results are seen, all require that all stakeholders have brought in to the need for a custom CMS
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Chance of budget overrun
Customizing a CMS is a software project. Most software projects runover both in time and budget.
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None
Amplafi promises instant gratification.
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High
Implementing a custom CMS solution requires clearly specifying the desired behavior. A miscommunication can cost hundreds of dollars and days in delay.
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Features
Many of the advanced features that CMS have are unneeded by most users. CMS have added features upon features to satisfy the experts. Most features are never needed by the majority of the users. However, these extra (unwanted) fetures can cause bugs and problems.
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Medium
Amplafi focuses making the website features with the budget-sucking bells and whistles.
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High
Custom CMS solutions are infinitely flexible that with enough money, effort and time can either create the best result or the best disaster. Many businesses and organizations attempt to redesign their entire business -- not just their website.
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