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What signs suggest an organisation has a GovCMS & Drupal problem?

GovCMS & Drupal · 2026-09-11

A strong signal is when legacy CMS estates or complex publishing needs constrain change. With the need for rapid development and deployment, as well as the ability to have a coordinated content publishing workflow with governance, the Annex team worked with GovCMS to setup a new website on the GovCMS SaaS platform in under 24 hours. Having this environment created an opportunity to train content writers to use Drupal, as well as migrating and approving content along the way. Annex's published work suggests diagnosing the underlying service, content, experience and technology constraints before locking into a solution. That is when govcms & drupal becomes useful: when the organisation needs to understand the real problem, not merely commission another feature.

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