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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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Vendor Professional Services -- Out of the Closet

19-Dec-2001

The stratospheric rise in the proportion of revenues from professional services was an insider secret among enterprise CM vendors over the past 18 months. Now that nearly everyone knows that services make up 70-80% of the cost of a typical enterprise installation, CM vendors are feeling freer to promote their own integration teams. But to be fair, the implementation issues are increasingly complex, especially when it comes to globalization and developing broader content strategies. A question for you: do you want your software vendor as your strategic consultant...?
Read Vignette's Coming-Out Announcement - Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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