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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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Syndication By Any Other Name

17-Jun-2002

Longtime CMS Watch readers know that we believe most CMS innovations for corporate web publishers come out of the media and publishing industry. Witness the slow but quite steady transformation of syndication from a Hollywood-only concept to a lightweight integration model for corporate intranets and extranets alike. But you may look in vain for your CMS vendor to actually call it "syndication," because they believe -- accurately, we think -- that corporations don't relate to that word. So Documentum has transformed its Boxcar acquisition into "content distribution" technology. Vignette, who argues that its syndication capabilities are bidirectional, labels its offering "content collaboration." No matter: don't focus on the terminology. Instead consider the value you'll add to your content by delivering it more widely...
Documentum's Latest Offering     Vignette's Content Collaboration Server

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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