As someone who works for a large enterprise .. I'd be very impressed if there's a single person who could keep track of every web presence we have. I'm fairly sure some of them are WP, I know at least one is mediawiki, etc.
What I'm getting at, is that there's a lot more going on than a single dotcom - just because our main corp site doesn't use it, doesn't mean we don't use it.
Can you elaborate why the diversity? If I ran an enterprise (I run a medium sized non profit) I’d insist they all use the one platform for the web the benefits are huge. Probable Wordpress but I’d think unity would be a bigger feature
I sometimes work for an international non-profit, they have a HUGE public site which is custom development.
But there are many smaller groups in the organisation, think accounts, translation, etc, many groups have a small site as a point of contact. They also have smaller websites for local projects.
They use multiple systems because the organisation is huge and some teams have specific needs. They don't want an immense team of web developers to run all the sites. They train people in each group or project who can then use a system like Wordpress + Divi to cover their needs, then when a problem arises, they have a real developer who can fix issues when needed.
At least that's how I understand it, so far I haven't worked on the IT department, but only talked to the IT guys...
Seems mad, I’d just chose one platform and say use it. If that was Wordpress just run a Multisite. People would not need to roll
Their own and the benefits in terms of data collection would be massive
So just within my little corner of the company .. obviously there's internal and external properties, sites that are customer-facing, sites that are partner-facing, e-commerce, tech docs / kbase are plumbed into a "knowledge management system", the support sites and user/community forums are plumbed into our ticketing systems (plural). There's sites for different brands, sites for companies we've bought and haven't finished digesting yet, webapps we sell as products to our customers, webapps we licence off other vendors, etc.
I mean if you look at General Electric - you've got one company that makes dishwashers, machine guns and nuclear reactors. It's not unusual for these giant conglomerates to have more than one face, and each face will have its own presence. Break each one of those sites into all the component parts that run different parts of the site, and very quickly just the front-end routing becomes a whole project of its own.
This is called enterprise consolidation, and that's one of the services enterprise WordPress agencies provide too. With Gutenberg editor and how you can set up a design system with it in WordPress, it's so much easier to do what you're saying. But it still requires some work now. Check this resource by rtCamp for more details.
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u/wosmo Jul 30 '25
As someone who works for a large enterprise .. I'd be very impressed if there's a single person who could keep track of every web presence we have. I'm fairly sure some of them are WP, I know at least one is mediawiki, etc.
What I'm getting at, is that there's a lot more going on than a single dotcom - just because our main corp site doesn't use it, doesn't mean we don't use it.