Content Management System SERVICES PERTH

CMS implementation to empower your content team

The wrong CMS costs more than the licence fee. It costs your team time, your editors frustration, and your customers a slower, less consistent experience. Dapth selects and implements the right platform for your organisation, choosing from CMS platforms including Payload, Umbraco, and Kentico Xperience. Over 150 projects delivered for Perth and WA organisations across government, resources, commercial, healthcare and professional services.

YOUR ADVANTAGE

Most CMS problems aren't content problems. They are platform problems.

When your editors need a developer to change a heading, when content is siloed across five systems, or when your CMS can't support the experience your customers expect - the platform is the problem, not the people.

We see this across Perth organisations of all sizes. A CMS chosen five years ago for budget or familiarity that now bottlenecks the marketing team, slows campaign delivery, and creates inconsistency across channels. The cost doesn't appear on a spreadsheet , but it shows up in every delayed launch and every frustrated editor.

Dapth approach is platform-agnostic. We assess your team size, content complexity, integration requirements, and long-term roadmap - then recommend the platform that fits, not the one that suits us.

BENEFITS DELIVERED

What the right CMS unlocks for your organisation

When your CMS works properly, your team does too.

Editorial independence

Content teams publish, update, and manage without raising a support ticket. Your developers focus on building, not babysitting the CMS.

Consistent Customer Experience

The right CMS intuitively enforces content structure and brand standards across every page, channel, and campaign.

Faster time to market

Campaigns, landing pages, and content updates go live faster when the platform doesn't get in the way of the people producing the work.

Multi-channel content delivery

Modern CMS platforms deliver content to websites, apps, intranets, and third-party platforms from one source of truth with no duplication and no drift.

Accessibility compliance

Self-hosted or Australian-hosted configurations across all platforms we implement. Critical for government agencies and regulated industries under the Privacy Act 1988.

Integration with your ecosystem

CRM, ERP, marketing automation, and analytics can all be connected to your CMS as part of the implementation, not bolted on as an afterthought.

DAPTH METHODOLOGY

How we select and implement your CMS

Solution first, then platform selection and implementation. Every time.

CMS Understanding & Assessment

We audit your current content structure, team workflows, integration requirements, and long-term objectives. The output is a platform recommendation built on a clear strategy, not a sales pitch for the platform we prefer.

Platform Selection

We match your requirements to the right platform: Payload for modern headless builds; Umbraco for .NET environments, government, and enterprise; Xperience by Kentico (XbyK) for organisations needing personalisation, multisite, and digital experience at scale.

Content Modelling & Architecture

We design the content model before touching the CMS to define content types, fields, relationships, and editorial workflows that reflect how your team really works. This is where most implementations go wrong.

Implementation & Integration

CMS configuration, custom components, and integration with your existing systems. Built to specification, tested continuously, and documented thoroughly before handover.

Training & Adoption

Structured CMS training for editors and administrators. We don't hand over a platform and walk away, we make sure your team is confident and capable before go-live.

PROJECT DELIVERY

CMS projects that gave power and time back to Perth content teams

Department of Transport - Your Move

Our work with Your Move demonstrates our ability to deliver tailored digital solutions that drive significant improvements and support long-term success.
IMDEX: Elevating Global Presence

Elevating Global Presence: How a strategic CMS shift elevated IMDEX’s global presence, providing a scalable, user-friendly solution to power their long-term success.
Perth Zoo

This custom application development project wasn't the only time we ended up working with the fluffy animals (and staff) over at Perth Zoo.
DSF Literacy & Clinical Services

We developed a comprehensive, end-to-end solution built with future trends and an ever-changing world in mind.
City of Subiaco, Perth Council CMS Development

It is everything a council website should be; a comms workhorse, local community focused, highly secure, integrated, accessible and easy to manage independently of developers.
Iluka Resources Mining Website Development Case Study

A website that is like a mine site – the good stuff is underneath the surface.
CKSC Asset Management Mobile App

Transforming complex challenges into seamless solutions, we didn’t just meet CKSC’s goals — we exceeded them, turning innovation into operational excellence and setting a new benchmark for success
Relationships Australia (WA)

This case study highlights Dapth’s commitment to providing innovative, user-centric solutions that drive long-term client satisfaction and operational success.
APM Group Corporate Website Case Study

APM is a global company that is growing exponentially. This means their audience type is wide and content strategy exceptionally active. They have served 1 million people in the last year.
City of Belmont

We took the website from the dark ages to what is now a leader in the local government web arena.

service pillars

Four ways to help you unlock your objectives

Every digital system we deliver is built on the foundations of one or more of these four service pillars.

Website Design

A high-performing website that reflects your brand and turns visitors into customers. We design and build sites that balance visual craft with measurable business performance, built on platforms that let your team stay in control.

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Content Management Systems

Give your team the power to manage, update, and publish content without relying on developers. We implement and configure CMS platforms that fit the way your organisation actually works, whether that's Kentico, Umbraco, Payload, or Sitefinity.

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Digital Experience Platforms

Connect marketing, personalisation, and content management in a single integrated platform. We deploy enterprise DXPs that let you deliver the right experience to the right audience at scale, with the data to prove it's working.

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eCommerce Experience

Turn your digital store into a revenue engine. We design and build eCommerce experiences that reduce friction at every stage, from discovery to checkout to return visit, so your store converts and retains.

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Service Design

Map the full customer journey and redesign it around what people actually need. We use research, co-design, and prototyping to create services that are efficient for your organisation and seamless for your customers.

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Software Development

Custom software built to your exact requirements, scalable, secure, and maintainable from day one. From web platforms to enterprise applications, we deliver full-stack solutions using the right technology for your problem, not the easiest one for us.

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ERP & Operations Integration

Connect your ERP, CRM, finance, and operational systems so data flows freely and your team works from a single source of truth. We integrate complex environments without disrupting the business that's running through them.

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Product Design

Translate business requirements into well-designed digital products. We combine UX research, prototyping, and iterative design to build products that solve real problems, gain genuine adoption, and hold up under real-world use.

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Business Application Development

Purpose-built applications that replace spreadsheets, workarounds, and legacy tools. We scope, design, and develop business applications that match the complexity of your operations, built for the people who'll use them every day.

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Business Process Automation

Identify where manual effort is slowing you down and eliminate it. We design and implement process automation solutions that reduce cost, reduce error, and give your people time back for the work that actually requires them.

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AI Enablement

Embed intelligence into your systems so your business becomes more capable as it grows, not more complex. We design and build AI solutions on your own data: smart search, document processing, embedded copilots, and content automation.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED

Answers to your questions

01

The right CMS depends on your team's technical capability, content complexity, integration requirements, and long-term roadmap. Dapth provides a structured CMS assessment before recommending any platform - we match the tool to the organisation. We implement Payload (modern headless builds), Umbraco (.NET, government, enterprise), and Kentico Xperience (personalisation, multisite, digital experience at scale). We'll tell you honestly if a different platform is a better fit.
02

A headless CMS manages content without a fixed frontend - it delivers content via API to any channel: website, app, intranet, or third-party platform. It's the right choice if you need to deliver content across multiple surfaces or want frontend flexibility. For most Perth organisations, a hybrid approach - a proven CMS backend with a decoupled frontend - captures the flexibility without added integration complexity. We'll recommend the right architecture after understanding your requirements.
03

Yes. Dapth handles CMS migrations from WordPress, Sitecore, legacy Kentico, and custom-built platforms. We preserve URL structure for SEO, map and migrate content, and rebuild integrations in the new environment. A proper migration plan is critical - over 80% of enterprise CMS migrations exceed budget or deadline without one. We've delivered migrations without SEO drops or data loss for Perth government and enterprise clients.
04

For Australian government agencies and organisations handling personal data under the Privacy Act 1988, yes. Where your content, user data, and form submissions are stored and processed matters legally. All three platforms Dapth implements support self-hosted or Australian-hosted configurations. If data sovereignty is a requirement for your organisation, we scope this into the platform recommendation from day one.
05

A focused CMS implementation - content modelling, platform configuration, editor training, and integration - typically takes 6–12 weeks. Projects that include a full website build on the new CMS run 12–20 weeks. CMS migration projects vary based on content volume and system complexity. We provide a detailed timeline after the CMS discovery phase, not a ballpark.
06

Yes. We offer CMS support retainers covering platform updates, editor support, content model changes, integration maintenance, and performance monitoring. Most Dapth CMS clients maintain an ongoing support relationship - the platform evolves as the organisation's content strategy and digital roadmap develops. Retainers from $800/month.

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