The Enterprise CMS suites (DXPs) are strong at what their name says: digital experience. Personalisation, campaign tooling, multichannel content, governance. None of them includes built-in search that lets engineers filter parts by spec values such as voltage or capacitance, and that is what an engineer needs.
Excellent content management, marketing automation and personalisation, with commerce present as one capability among many. A catalog that buyers can filter by spec means substantial custom development, usually in .NET, maintained by you.
Product data and spec search come first, with the content system built around them. Spec search is part of the product itself.
We know these platforms well, we have built the technology layer on top of them for named electronics clients.
A good deal of our work has been delivering search, distributor integration and BOM tooling on top of client sites running on exactly these platforms. That work is real, it performs, and for a company with a significant investment in a DXP adding our product data and search tools to the existing site is often the right answer, and a migration is not needed.
So this page is not an argument that you should leave your DXP. It is an argument about where the product layer should live, and about being clear-eyed that building a parametric engine as custom work means owning it for as long as you run it.
Requirement | On a DXP | On EETech Commerce |
|---|---|---|
Typed product attributes with units | Custom content types plus convention | Native, with governance and validation |
Unit-aware parametric search | Custom build over the search provider | Native, normalised at index time |
BOM and RFQ | Custom | Native engine, line items into CRM |
Catalog at 750K+ SKUs | Achievable with architecture work | Standard |
Who maintains the catalog layer | You, or your agency, indefinitely | Us, as product |
Marketing and personalisation depth | Deeper, a genuine DXP strength | Block builder and programmatic SEO |
Written from publicly documented capability. Where a DXP has shipped something new, tell us and we will correct the row.
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