Break free from the constrictions of off-the-shelf systems with a CMS that allows you the flexibility to create, manage and update your content, with ease. Designed using scalable components that don’t rely on restrictive templates, Tank has limitless possibilities to expand with your business. Quickly.
Tank isn’t just powerful – it’s empowering. Tank’s publishing and CMS capabilities enable you to take control over content creation, editing and media management – all within a single dashboard. It’s intuitive and easy to use, no developers required.
Tank scales with your business
Businesses scale, so Tank has been designed to scale with you. Create infinite pages, add custom features and continually evolve your content using your branded component library.
Tank takes care of all the hard work
From automated media scaling and asset management, mobile optimisation, SEO and page speed. Tank has got your back so you can focus on your content.
Tank is secure
Tank CMS undergoes a comprehensive security review by an independent security company every year and ensures we stay abreast of the latest risks and developments in the industry.
Tank is more than a CMS
Tank does more than just manage content. There are a number of ‘add-ons’ that help your business, from our Email Builder, User Roles, Form builder, and Multisite functionality, to custom CRMs or even LMSs.
Like for like, Tank outpaces other popular CMS platforms, plus we can custom build functionality to suit your business needs.
Summary
Tank
Wordpress
Drupal
Ease of use
Easy
Easy
Complex
Beginner Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Required technical knowledge
Little to none
Some
High
Scalability
Sites of all sizes
Small to Large
Sites of all sizes
Design/brand consistency
On brand always
Limited
Possible
Security
Highly secure
Needs updates
Vigilance required
Initial cost
Moderate
Low
Expensive
Long-term cost
Low
Low
Moderate
Delivery speed
Fast to market
Fast
Depends on complexity
Ongoing developer support
Low requirement
Reliant on plugins
Reliant on developers
Long-term content flexibility
Highly flexible
Reliant on developers
Costly updates
We had come from a website that had limited capabilities, to something that is now responsive, accessible, and easy to use. The team were so patient in sharing their knowledge of Tank, while also helping me to fulfil my vision on not only how the website looked, but also worked. We had so many things we wanted to integrate, and the team were able to tick everything off our list. We’ve heard nothing but good things from our customers about the new website!
Rachel Churchland
Digital Marketing Coordinator, QSO
We were sceptical of a custom CMS. That was eight years ago when we first met Bigfish. 10+ live sites powered by Tank later, we have not looked back. Tank and Bigfish have completely exceeded our expectations in building our digital platforms to do exactly what we need when we need it. Tank is the backbone to our online public image and internally, it keeps our people connected to dozens of systems across hundreds of sites daily.
Harleigh Venables
Communications Manager, Hutchinson Builders
The entire process from the conception through to deployment exceeded our expectations. Bigfish developed a simple and effective back-end interface which meant our staff and student coordinators could focus on developing relevant and engaging content vs. worrying about how to manage a back end and tech skills. The end result was a website that has seen us increase visitation in excess of 140% over previous years, and importantly provided a platform from which we can capitalise upon future developments and trends.
Tank uses your brand for every touchpoint. Colour, typography and layout styles are all customised to your business.
A set of design principles, sizes and grids are developed to provide a scalable solution which can be adapted to interface requirements moving forward.
Live Preview
Preview as you go at all responsive breakpoints.
The design system uses these elements and principles to allow for powerful and adaptable variants for quick and easy layout designs without fear of breaking brand guidelines.
Flexible or fixed, you decide
Create fast and consistent layouts using section presets.
From ten to a hundred users, Tank makes it easy to manage. We can fix templates or sections or you can create your own. No coding needed. Change how your content displays with just one click.
No, Tank is our custom built CMS and is not available to the open source community. Tank is developed on top of an open-source PHP framework (CakePHP). PHP is a common coding language which enables other developers to work on it if required.
We've been building Tank for more than 15 years, evolving it with the businesses it powers. This means the majority of the time, the functionality you require has been built before and can be utilised in your build at minimal cost. If you do need extra custom functionality specific to your business, we find that quotes provided to deliver these solutions are still competitive in comparison to off-the-shelf plugins that need to be customised to suit your requirements.
Yes, there are no IP restrictions for another developer to develop for Tank. However, organisations working with Tank can not on-sell.
As Tank is not a standard CMS there would be a learning curve for a new developer to begin working with it, but this is true of any website platform. The code base and front-end of all websites are set up by a specific developer and so would still be unfamiliar to a new one.
Out-of-the-box, Tank has more SEO in-built features than most CMSs. Schema integration, sitemap integration, meta fields, canonical URLs, rich data, OpenGraph social media integration, automatic image compression and mobile-optimised performance. For real-time SEO feedback, we can integrate with the Seobility API to bring more targeted SEO features directly into Tank.
Tank’s page builder (Cockpit) will look familiar to anyone who has used WordPress or similar CMSs, using industry-standard features and semantics. However, where Tank excels is in the way it empowers users to customise layouts and page content without any developer intervention. All pages use customisable sections rather than templates, meaning pages can adapt to suit the content rather than being restricted to the same layout on every page. Styling presets then helps streamline the creation of new pages. New page layouts can be designed by the CMS user, but always remain on brand thanks to the underlying design system.
Tank can integrate seamlessly with any third-party platform. We have previous experience integrating with most industry standard CRMs (Tessitura, Hubspot, Salesforce etc), recruitment platforms (Pageup etc), email marketing (MailChimp, Vision6 etc) and social platforms. The level to which the platform is integrated is determined in the scoping phase.
