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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Vignette Content Management

"One area where experienced content engineers will find Vignette lacking is in XML support. With its optional integration tool called "VBIS," you can import and output XML content, but while managing content, Vignette sticks to a straight relational model. Like most other CMS tools, Vignette can represent content as XML, albeit using its own schema (you cannot use arbitrary or industry-standard schemas in the management environment). The problem is not that the product uses a database for storage (most packages do that). Rather, by natively lacking strong notions of hierarchy, the product can work in unexpected ways, such as..."

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Vignette Still Likes its Old Dog Food

28-Jan-2004

More than a year after launching V7, Vignette still runs V6 on its own website. Note the telltale URLs -- like "0,2097,1-1-2049,00.html" -- that V6 employs for dynamic page assembly. More accurately, vignette.com runs V6 and V7. The latter operates behind the firewall as a proper CMS; the former does content delivery to public site vistiors. Vignette says it maintains V6 on its live site for migration-training purposes and plans to cut over completely later this year. That's reasonable. But Vignette has recommended a similar hybrid approach to several other customers. You see, V6 is a fairly mature content delivery engine, with personalization, caching, and so on. V7 does not deliver content (that's OK) and has almost no notion of content assembly (that's a problem). Vignette's content delivery choice du jour is supposed to be newly-acquired Epicentric Portal but you won't find it on vignette.com. No wonder several major customers with advanced V6 implementations aren't ready to try the new dog food yet either...
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- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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