Realization

Strapi technical audit

Helping France's 2nd-largest wholesale broker optimize its Strapi infrastructure

Alptis, a major player in the insurance and provident business since 1976, relies on Strapi CMS headless to manage its digital content.

Faced with the growth of its activities and the evolution of its needs, the Lyon-based company called on Smotly to carry out a complete Strapi audit of its two instances. The aim: to optimize performance, secure the architecture and prepare the future of its CMS ecosystem.

Project skills

Architecture headless
Technical audit
Security
Business UX consulting
Documentation
Training

Customer

Creation date

1976

Sector of activity

Insurance, social protection

Technologies used

Strapi

Node.JS

A headless CMS, two instances and a need for global alignment

Alptis has been using Strapi for several years to manage the content of two separate sites, each linked to two different business divisions. While the headless CMS meets the company's need for flexibility and autonomy, the technical organization around these instances was beginning to show certain limitations: disparities between environments, friction on the user side, and increasing complexity.

The aim of this audit? To regain control of the entire Strapi ecosystem, make our technical foundations more reliable, provide better support for our teams, and prepare for future developments - both technical and functional.

The audit resulted in a detailed report including a prioritized list of corrective actions, evolution recommendations and training proposals to optimize the use of Strapi within Alptis.

Our headless CMS audit expertise is based on 7 areas of analysis:

Safety & compliance

Content modeling: consistency, scalability, readability for business teams

Configuring Strapi & third-party plugins

Code quality and maintainability

Environment management & deployment

Identifying friction points in internal usage

Search for technical and functional optimizations

Analysis of the two existing bodies

What the audit changed for Alptis

The intervention enabled Alptis to lay solid foundations for a more fluid, more homogeneous content management system, better aligned with business expectations.

Standardization technical practices around maintenance, hosting and environment management
Reduction of internalfriction points with better adoption of the tool by the business - significant improvement in the tool's adoption rate within teams
Preparing for changes in Strapi and the company's future functional needs
Cost optimization for maintenance, upgrades and operation
Global reinsurance for business and technical teams in the Strapi infrastructure

Our Strapi audit methodology

A good audit isn't just a series of technical findings. At Smotly, we make sure that each recommendation is readable, useful to the teams, and above all adapted to the customer's actual context.

01.

Project launch & scoping: Definition of audit scope, recovery of necessary access (Strapi admin, Git repository, test environments), clarification of Alptis expectations.

02.

Business interviews: Video interviews with Strapi user teams to better understand usage, identify friction points, duplications, unmet needs and contribution difficulties.

03.

Analysis & diagnosis: In-depth study of both instances: content modeling, technical structure, roles and permissions configuration, code quality, security, active plugins, performance, deployment, documentation.

04.

Formalization & feedback: Drafting of a clear, structured and prioritized report: best practices, areas for improvement, short/medium/long-term corrective measures. The report is presented at a meeting with the teams involved.

05.

Advice on next steps: Recommendations for next steps: possible technical evolutions, Strapi functionalities not yet exploited, and suggestions for targeted training courses for business or technical profiles.

The project +

Our Strapi expertise, serving concrete needs

Smotly is one of France's leading Strapi agencies. We don't just "know" the tool: we push it to its limits, for e-commerce, institutional, B2B and multi-environment projects.

Thanks to this expertise, we were able to offer Alptis tailor-made optimizations: best modeling practices, fine-tuned management of roles and permissions, enhanced performance, exploitation of little-known CMS functionalities...

To find out more about our approach, read our Strapi focus or our latest article on Strapi AI.

The final word?

Very good knowledge of Strapi, which enabled us to carry out an audit that was comprehensive, relevant and directly usable. The consultant quickly grasped our challenges, asked the right questions and proposed concrete, appropriate recommendations. The quality of the discussion, the clarity of the report and the relevance of the advice were particularly appreciated. A smooth and efficient collaboration!

Julien BES, Product Line Manager

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