dotCMS for Development & IT Teams
Architect the solution you need & empower your marketing team
Whether you need an out-of-the box solution, a headless architecture, or a completely custom deployment, dotCMS will scale and adapt to your business requirements.
Why dotCMS?
With lots of CMSs on the market, what are some of the features that set dotCMS apart?
Build on a platform that is as simple as you need it to be and as flexible as you want it to be
dotCMS has a lot of functionality available out of the box.
But also gives developers the tools to integrate with and customize the application as required with REST and GraphQL APIs as well as the ability to create custom endpoints to support your specific use cases.
One place for all your applications and brands
With multi-tenant capabilities and fine-grained permission management, dotCMS can run multiple websites or applications, each with its own branding, users and content and reduce the number of systems you’re maintaining.
Give the keys to your marketing team to manage and publish content
Even if you want to deploy dotCMS headlessly, marketing teams can still be in control of content authoring, layout design, workflow creation and content modeling without any developer assistance.
Don’t worry about maintenance and upgrades with dotCMS Cloud
Your business critical sites run on our containerized infrastructure with 24/7/365 monitoring and up to 99.98% uptime.
Upgrades are seamless and security patches are rolled out as soon as they become available to ensure you always have the latest and greatest features.
Rest easy knowing that security is baked in
Ensuring your data is safe and sound is our top priority, that’s why dotCMS is SOC2 (Type 2) and ISO27001:2022 certified and has the highest security standards and policies in place to protect the confidentiality and availability of your infrastructure and data.
Resource Center for Developers
Your go-to resources for the latest content, tech, developer strategies, insights and guides.
Technical Guides, Innovation Stories & How-tos
- 8 Mar 26
AI Search Made Easy
dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
- 1 Mar 26
Headless dotCMS Quick Start : Introducing dotCMS create app CLI
Learn how to bootstrap a headless CMS project with Next.js using @dotcms/create-app CLI. Skip documentation overload and render your first content in minutes.
- 10 Feb 26
DXP vs CMS in 2026
Choosing between a DXP and a CMS is not about labels. It is about finding the right balance of experience capabilities, governance, and cost for your enterprise. This guide breaks down the DXP vs CMS landscape, compares leading platforms, and explains why many organizations land in the middle with an enterprise CMS approach.
- 5 Feb 26
Debugging dotCMS: A Practical Checklist (Logs, Cache, API Playground, Network)
Debugging dotCMS is less about panic and more about knowing where to look. This guide walks through the most reliable places to check when something feels off, confusing, or just plain stubborn.
- 19 Jan 26
Scaling dotCMS: Lessons from Building PartnerCMS as a UX-First Layer
Scaling to thousands of partner sites isn’t just an architecture challenge — it’s a usability one. Learn how Solvisse built a UX-first control layer on top of dotCMS to give partners safe editing freedom without sacrificing governance or brand control.
Where compliance meets innovation
Success stories from teams building what’s next
Real teams. Real outcomes. Explore how organizations modernized their digital stacks, reduced operational load, and delivered better customer experiences with dotCMS.
dotCMS Helps CarFinance 247 Speed Into the Modern Era
CarFinance 247 is one of the largest car finance brokers in the UK. With dotCMS’ help, they updated their outdated website and made it easier for marketers to update content without getting developer assistance.
Before dotCMS, we were wasting a small team of developers on website maintenance. With dotCMS Cloud, we have completely freed up our development team and no longer have to worry about bandwidth, security, upgrades and patches-- dotCMS takes care of all that.