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Challenges with Dato CMS

Despite its strengths, Dato CMS may pose issues, particularly for projects requiring extensive customisation or specific feature sets, as it might lack depth in certain areas compared to other CMS platforms. We've never been huge believers in "drag-and-drop" schema builders because they lack inherent validation and extensibility.

The pricing model, which scales with the required functionality and traffic usage, could be a limitation for startups or smaller businesses. Additionally, the learning curve associated with its API-driven environment might pose challenges to non-developers. Some users may also need additional plugins or custom development to fully meet their needs.

Key Pain Points

•Limited customisation options
•Feature depth variability
•Pricing based on traffic
•Can be costly for startups
•Steeper learning curve
•API knowledge required
•Need for additional plugins
•Custom development needed
•Limited feature set scalability
•Non-developer challenges
•Potential integration issues
•Dependency on third-party tools

Benefits of Uniform

Uniform positions itself as a “composable DXP,” which is enterprise-speak for “it does a bit of everything on top of your actual CMS.” To be fair, the visual workspace is genuinely useful. Marketers get drag-and-drop control, personalization, and A/B testing without pinging developers every five minutes. And if you’re already juggling multiple systems (CMS, commerce, DAM), the orchestration layer can tidy up the chaos.

That said… we’ll be honest, we don’t really build with DXPs like this anymore. Whenever a headless tool starts shouting “DXP” from the homepage, it usually means heavyweight architecture, unnecessary complexity, and a bill only Fortune 500 companies would smile at. If you’re considering it anyway, feel free to get in touch. We’ll happily walk you through better, modern alternatives before you sink a quarter’s budget into something you probably don’t need.

Key advantages

Visual experience composition

Uniform’s visual builder lets marketers piece together pages without pinging developers every 5 minutes. It’s basically a drag-and-drop layer on top of your headless stack.

Multi-source content federation

Uniform pulls content from multiple CMSs, DAMs, and commerce tools into one interface, so you don’t need 10 tabs open to build a single page

Real-time collaboration tools

Teams can edit, plan, and experiment together without overwriting each other’s work. It’s built for big organisations where ten people touching the same page is a weekly occurrence.

Enterprise-grade scalability

Uniform is built to handle traffic spikes and heavy personalisation workloads. It’s overkill for small sites but a safe bet for enterprises terrified of a Black Friday outage.

Omnichannel content management

You can pipe the same content across web, apps, and any other channel marketing dreams up. Useful for brands juggling multiple experiences without wanting to rebuild the same page three times.