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GovCMS is Australia’s whole-of government website management platform built on the open source content management system (CMS) Drupal. It was designed to make it easier for agencies to create modern, affordable, responsive websites.
SaaS and PaaS
GovCMS has two service offerings, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
For SaaS, all you need to do is build your website, create its content and ensure it meets GovCMS migration requirements.
For PaaS, you can have higher levels of control, customisation and flexibility. You will need to do your own security updates and patching - and Salsa can help with those.
Contact us if you’re trying to understand which is the right service offering for you.
Salsa and GovCMS
Since July 2018 Salsa Digital is the Service Delivery Partner for GovCMS. Alongside our partner amazee.io and the Department of Finance, we build and run the GovCMS 2.0 platform.
Drupal Services Panel
Salsa is part of the Drupal Services Panel for all categories of work https://www.govcms.gov.au/dsp
Our GovCMS expertise
Beyond our close involvement with the GovCMS program and our approval of our services on the Drupal Services Panel, we have deep experience and expertise working with both SaaS and PaaS sites:
- Migrated 100+ legacy sites from first-generation platform to second-generation GovCMS:
- Built the migration automation tooling and verification processes
- Managed the live migration and cut-over
- Migrated 25 strategically identified sites to GovCMS based on security profile (co-ran this 25 site migration with the Department of Finance migrating the sites to an aggressive three-month timeframe)
- Mature service catalogue built around GovCMS services offered to agencies (see GovCMS services below). Services include:
- Assessment of sites for fit-to-GovCMS
- Rehosting and migration services
- GovCMS site audits and technical reviews
- Application support packages
- Build of approximately 50 GovCMS sites using Software and a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) service offerings (see GovCMS case studies below)
