Emergent Software is one of the few Web Development firms in the US to achieve Umbraco Platinum Partner status. We’ve won multiple awards for building the best editing experience for our clients. We build websites of all sizes, but our technical expertise makes us a perfect fit for enterprise websites with advanced features like e-commerce, scheduling, web-based applications, custom workflows, and integrations. With our full set of services including UI/UX design, development, migrations, hosting, and 24/7 website support assistance, we’re built to support all your website needs long after delivering your first project.
What is Umbraco?
Umbraco is a highly flexible and user-friendly content management system (CMS) designed to give you complete control over your website’s content and functionality. From managing a simple lead generating brochure site to a complex business site with custom features, Umbraco gives you the tools to create and manage it all with ease. It’s known for its scalability, security, and customization capabilities, which is why it’s a popular choice for businesses of all sizes.
Why Umbraco?
Umbraco is built to be as customizable as you need it to be. At its core, you have a robust content management framework, which gives you full control over how you organize and display your content. On top of that, developers can easily extend Umbraco’s functionality with custom add-ons and plug-ins, whether you need specific integrations or custom workflows.
Features
- Umbraco gives you Access to a Large Community
- With over 220,000 active members worldwide, Umbraco has one of the largest CMS communities. This makes troubleshooting problems easy and updates are regular.
- Custom Editing Experience
- There’s no need to be frustrated with an out of the box site editor. Umbraco gives you the freedom to design your very own editing experience.
- SEO Friendly
- To make sure your site is easy to find on search engines, Umbraco makes it simple to implement SEO tools that make it easy. Things like metadata, redirects, and even sitemaps can be SEO optimized.
- Cost Effective
- Umbraco generates revenue in creative ways. Instead of charging to its the CMS, it charges for optional services such as hosting.
Content Friendly CMS
- Flexible Page Builder
- Included in their CMS, Umbraco has a user-friendly page builder. Using Umbraco's built in Block Editors allows editors to build a page however they want. A library of available blocks makes this robust feature easy to use.
- Asset Managment
- Authors can keep all their assets such as images or PDFs, organized in Umbraco’s media library independently from content.
- Using Umbraco’s built in Image Cropper Authors can easily select the correct crop of an image to ensure an optimized image is delivered to the user.
- Ease of Publishing
- Previewing changes and getting approval is made easy with Umbraco’s CMS
- Want to see who made what change? Revert to a previous version? With an audit trail and version history, it’s a click away.
- Media Library
- Authors can easily add videos and pictures into content using a powerful media library tool.
- It’s easy to edit images straight in Umbraco. You’ll no longer need to use third party software to crop images.
Security Focused
- Built on the latest version .NET Core, with a planned release to ensure it can always take advantage of the latest .NET features.
- Regular updates: Umbraco's development team releases regular updates at regular predetermined intervals to make scheduling updates easy. And patches to address security vulnerabilities and bug fixes.
- Multiple factor authentication: Umbraco supports multiple factor authentication.
- Granular permissions: Umbraco has granular permissions and access control. Giving you full control over who can edit what.
- WCAG compliance: Umbraco is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Intuitive editing
- Your content is neatly organized into searchable trees, making everything easy to find. It’s simple to add new content to any section of your site, create new sections, or move pages around to evolve the structure of your site, all without needing any technical skill.
- Before you publish content, you probably want to preview it. With Umbraco, you don’t just get one preview – you can toggle between previews of the content on multiple device types.
- If your organization has a global audience, Umbraco has features to help you manage multilingual content within a single website instance. Each piece of content can exist in multiple variations at the same time.
- Authors can easily add videos and pictures into content choosing from the Umbraco media library.
- Umbraco flexible page builder comes built in their CMS, Umbraco has a user-friendly page builder using block editors custom made for them.
Ranked 4.5 Stars on G2
Compared to some of the key CMS vendors in the market, Umbraco is voted:
- The fastest Return On Investment CMS
- The fasted Go Live Time CMS
- The most Customizable CMS
- #1 Recommended CMS
Flexibility and customization
Umbraco’s API layers mean that developers can extend and customize your Umbraco site, ensuring that it meets your needs and integrates with your existing tech stack. There are also hundreds of free and for pay packages created by members of the Umbraco community for anyone’s use.
Umbraco offers a composable DXP (digital experience platform). That means that instead of being tied to a single vendor, we can help you choose the best digital tools for your business and put them all together into one solution. For example, we could link your Umbraco CMS with an ecommerce platform, email marketing platform, a product information management (PIM) solution, your CRM, or any other business-critical SaaS tools.
One of the reasons we love working with Umbraco is its adaptability across industries. From ecommerce sites that require payment gateways to nonprofits needing easy content management tools, Umbraco has the flexibility to meet your business's unique needs. And at Emergent Software, we have experience working with a wide range of industries and can tailor your Umbraco CMS to fit the specific demands of your sector.
Made For Growing Businesses
One of the best parts about Umbraco is that it is specifically designed to grow with your business. If you start small but have big plans, you can be confident that this platform can handle it. In fact, it is ideal for companies that need to scale up over time without worrying about performance issues—essentially, any company that plans to stick around. Umbraco ensures that your site remains fast and responsive, even when you’re adding new features, expanding your content, or integrating new business tools.
Partnering with an Umbraco Platinum Partner
Choosing the right partner to implement and support your Umbraco site is crucial. As an Umbraco Platinum Partner, Emergent Software brings expert-level knowledge of the platform and a proven track record of delivering successful Umbraco projects. What sets us apart is our involvement in the Umbraco community—we’re not just users of the platform, we actively contribute to its growth. By partnering with us, you gain access to a team that’s always up-to-date with the latest Umbraco advancements, ensuring your website performs at its best and is ready to evolve with new features and capabilities.
Check out some of our Umbraco project case studies below.
