What Is Headless CMS?

The traditional CMS systems were built for websites. However, it’s no longer enough. With the mobile revolution, in the past 10 years, we have started to consume content through mobile applications.

The new era of virtual reality, bots, digital assistants, and Internet of Things has made it even more complex—suddenly, the content can be displayed on any device using any format. That requires a completely new approach to how we manage and publish content.

And here enters the concept of headless CMS. It makes the presentation layer much more flexible as it eliminates the front-end part: it only provides the content through its application programming interface (API).

The cloud-first headless CMS brings the best of headless plus the benefits of the Cloud. You can focus on your website or mobile app and have the CMS vendor take care of everything else.

Source: Kontent by Kentico (YouTube Video)

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