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Migrate from Sitecore to Craft CMS.

Enterprise capability, without the enterprise tax.

Migrate from Sitecore to Craft CMS.

Sitecore made sense when "enterprise CMS" meant six-figure licensing, multi-year implementations, and a .NET stack. The brands escaping Sitecore now are doing it for a reason: the licensing costs keep growing, the upgrades keep stalling, and the editorial UX hasn't kept up with what their teams expect from a modern CMS.

We move enterprise teams off Sitecore onto Craft CMS — preserving structured content, multi-site setups, and SEO, while dropping the licensing fees and the implementation overhead.

Why enterprise teams leave Sitecore

Sitecore is enterprise software. The buyer who licensed it five years ago isn't always the buyer who has to maintain it now.

  • Licensing costs grow every year. Sitecore is one of the most expensive CMS platforms in the market. The TCO compounds.
  • Implementations are multi-year projects. Even small changes can require external consultants.
  • The .NET stack locks you into a specific developer market. Talent is harder to find. Hourly rates are higher.
  • Upgrade paths are painful. Sitecore 9>Sitecore 10> XM Cloud is a journey, not an upgrade.
  • The shift to Sitecore XM Cloud changes the deployment model in ways many existing customers didn't sign up for.

Enterprise teams are increasingly asking whether they need enterprise software anymore — or whether a modern, leaner CMS could do the same job at a fraction of the cost.

What changes when you move to Craft
  • Licensing cost drops by an order of magnitude. Craft Pro is hundreds of euros per year, not hundreds of thousands.
  • Developer market is broader. PHP developers are easier to hire than senior Sitecore developers, and they cost less.
  • Editorial experience is modern. Live preview, drafts, version history, structured content — built in, with a UI editors enjoy.
  • Multi-site and multi-language are native. No XM Cloud transition required.
  • Hosting is simpler. Craft runs on standard LAMP/LEMP infrastructure. No Azure dependency, no specialised hosting.
  • Upgrades are continuous. No version migration projects.

Craft doesn't have every Sitecore feature. It has the ones most teams actually use, at a fraction of the cost.

How we migrate from Sitecore

  • Full content export from Sitecore (any version) with field-level preservation
  • Templates and data templates mapped to Craft entry types and sections
  • Sitecore field types mapped to native Craft fields (single line, rich text, droplink, treelist, etc.)
  • Items, taxonomies, and content hierarchies preserved
  • Media library migrated with metadata
  • Multi-site Sitecore implementations mapped to Craft's native multi-site
  • Personalisation rules documented and recreated where Craft equivalents exist (or noted for separate implementation)
  • URL-to-URL redirect mapping with 301s active on day one
  • Metadata, schema, and structured data preserved

What you keep

  • Every URL that ranks
  • Every piece of structured content
  • Every multilingual variant
  • Every editorial workflow, simplified Every SEO signal

Common concerns about leaving Sitecore

  • Is Craft enterprise-grade?

    For most enterprise use cases, yes. Craft powers multi-region websites at Fortune 500 scale, handles complex content models, and serves audiences in dozens of languages from a single installation. What it doesn't do is sell itself as "enterprise" with the price tag to match.

  • What about personalisation?

    Sitecore's personalisation engine is one of its differentiators. Craft has a different model: integrate with the marketing automation, CDP, or personalisation tool you already use (rather than baking it into the CMS). Most enterprise teams find this more flexible — and considerably cheaper.

  • What about the marketing analytics in Sitecore?

    Sitecore Analytics typically gets replaced by best-of-breed tools (Google Analytics 4, Adobe Analytics, Amplitude, Mixpanel) that most teams already have in their stack. The migration is an opportunity to consolidate.

  • Can we run Sitecore and Craft in parallel during transition?

    Yes. We've handled phased migrations where regional sites or specific business units move to Craft first while the rest stay on Sitecore. The 301 strategy and SEO architecture are designed accordingly.

  • What about our .NET integrations?

    Sitecore's .NET integrations typically migrate to standard REST or GraphQL APIs in Craft. Most enterprise systems your CMS connects to (Salesforce, SAP, Akeneo, identity providers, etc.) have standard API integrations that don't depend on the CMS's underlying stack.

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