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The Web CMS Report 2009 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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US Government selects Vignette for Shared CMS Service

15-Apr-2003

It's tax day today in the USA. And this year, US citizens will contribute about two-tenths of a cent each to purchase a comprehensive set of Vignette tools and services to support a novel experiment. The General Services Administration (GSA) will offer Web content management as a service to other government entities. We think this is a great idea [disclosure: we consulted on the project under the auspices of government consultancy InfoZen]. Most federal agencies have sophisticated content delivery environments, but underdeveloped or totally absent content management facilities, which means greater costs to taxpayers. Forget about the winning vendor for a moment and consider this: if even one-tenth of all online federal Web content (translates to 18+ million Web pages and growing) comes under formal management for the first time, this effort will have been a great success...
Review Vignette's Contract Award

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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