Open Source CrafterCMS Reports Profitability, Growth in 2023

While commercial operations for “coupled” CMSes like Acquia (Drupal) and Automattic (WordPress) have been running for some time, the segment of “headless” content management systems, are newer disruptors in the market. Unlike traditional, “monolithic” CMSes that are responsible for both administering and serving content, headless solutions decouple these two functions. This not only makes the content itself leaner (as it’s comprised of “flat” HTML, instead of pages that must populate from a database when loaded), but often allows for mixing and matching of the tooling that administers the content from that which generates it. CrafterCMS, a solution built in Java, announced stepping into the black in 2023, bolstered by growth in enterprise services and Crafter Cloud, it’s cloud service offering.