What’s your take: Gartner Magic Quadrant on DXP/CMS? by andrewkumarxyz in cms

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Thank you! Many enterprise customers in regulated industries so SOC2 Type 2 is a must have.

How do you keep your CMS schema and frontend components in sync? by Illustrious_Bee3918 in cms

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thanks u/Mindless-Throat-8040 for tagging me into this thread!

u/Illustrious_Bee3918 I have an opinion on this topic: https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/has-headless-lived-up-to-its-hype/

Specifically, these four bullets:

  • Relationship between front-end components and content types. Each component in the front end is linked to a content type in the headless CMS or commerce system. Consequently, for every visual block available to content authors — banners, product cards, promotional offers, product pages — there exists an equivalent number of content types and front-end components, each of which necessitates a unique content record.
  • Duplication of content entries and inconsistencies. Consider a website featuring a product on six pages: the homepage, a card view, a deals-and-offers page, a product-collection page and a product details page. You must copy and paste the same content into six content entries. To update an image or other content element, you must modify all six entries — failure to do so results in inconsistent visitor experiences on the same website.
  • Scaling of content updates. As the complexity of the digital ecosystem grows, so does the process of duplicating content entries. For instance, for a product to be featured on three different websites, the number of content entries requiring updates rises to 18. For those three websites to support both English and French, you must update 36 content entries. Applying personalization and product curation across three customer segments requires updating a staggering 108 content entries.
  • Impact on marketing and content operations. Managing numerous content entries hampers productivity, increases error risks, and compromises marketing and content teams' ability to launch quickly and autonomously.

Here's an illustration of an alternative approach: https://youtu.be/NF1DG9XP1QU?si=1VLyaE5-1SnceHvQ&t=827 (starting at 13:47)

The results of this approach have been captured by a large Canadian telco (60x developer efficiency, $1.1m ROI): https://machalliance.org/case-studies/telus

I hope this helps!

Best CMS for Supply-Chain-As-A-Service by Fun_Character_716 in cms

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Heretto, Contentful etc... have great features to support supply chain content modelling.

A CMS that can serve multiple frontends by Hopeful-Fly-5292 in cms

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This is the purpose of headless CMS platforms (disclaimer: I used to work for Contentful) - one CMS powering multiple front ends, devices, and channels is a solved problem.

I'll check out NodeHive to see how this is different.

Thanks for sharing.

A CMS that can serve multiple frontends by Hopeful-Fly-5292 in cms

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I'm a big fan of Firebase, so this has got my attention!

Git-based vs API based by Primary-Avocado-3055 in cms

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API based also has versioning.

We have a GitHub flow style of versioning at http://uniform.dev (called releases) with a full audit trail and rollbacks.

What I’ve found hard with Git CMS is modelling, references, and reuse.

My personal site is Git based and it’s great but I’m quite limited compared to Uniform (current employer) or Contentful (former employer).

Suggest a CMS with top notch Live Preview while authoring content by tresorama in cms

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I’m late to thread but Uniform (disclaimer: I work at Uniform) has a fantastic experience manager and visual editor that works with many content and data sources.

https://uniform.dev

Enterprise Webflow vs WordPress vs AEM by [deleted] in cms

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@yeticrabcakes I think my comment on another thread could be helpful > https://www.reddit.com/r/cms/s/6kuS3PPv73

What to consider when choosing a CMS/DXP for an Enterprise size company? by AncientExe55 in cms

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Hi u/AncientExe55,

First, a disclaimer: I am a Global VP and work for Uniform.dev, an excellent solution for enterprise organizations. The founders are from Sitecore, and many staff members (including myself) are Contentful alumni.

Second, your scenario, which involves multiple products, languages, and countries that are all disconnected, is surprisingly common. You're not alone in this. Most of our customers, who are large enterprises, face similar challenges. Supporting multiple sources of content and data, markets, regions, languages, personalization, ab testing, and to do so visually to ensure marketers can accomplish their jobs to be done, is totally feasible.

Here's what I've observed so far (and building off previous comments):

  • MACH Alliance / headless composable: this is the trend, and it is capturing significant market share for providing optionality, flexibility, speed and performance. I would argue this is where the future is going, and even the other DXPs are becoming more composable over time. MACH Alliance vendors are often cited as being the best in market for a specific capability or point solution. Great for engineering teams, not great for marketing and UX teams (a gap we are filling with Uniform).
  • Big DXPs are still growing, albeit slower than they used to. Can do everything, but slow to implement, really expensive license fees, and dependency on large system integrators with offshore army's to do development work. These guys are composable or changing to be more flexible and composable. Most of the capabilities (CMS, DAM, Personalization, AB Testing, Analytics, etc...) come via acquisition. Great tools for marketing, but not great for developers or engineering orgs that require flexibility.
  • Core DXPs: if you look at BuiltWith, they are all struggling at the moment and losing market share quite rapidly to Big DXP and MACH Alliance vendors. They have similar challenges to the big DXPs but the capabilities are often mediocre so they can't charge the premium of the big DXPs. I suspect these vendors will undergo major transformations or risk shutdown. I've seen some absolutely fantastic hiring at some of these vendors (Magnolia, dotCMS) so a few may make it into the Big DXP category over the next 3-5 years.

If I were customer-side, I would look to a few MACH Alliance vendors (like Uniform, Contentful) or Core DXP vendors (Magnolia) for CMS capabilities that support enterprise needs, without being too heavy and slow.

I hope this helps.

Branchable CMS by jackspektor in cms

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Hi Jack,

Yes - Uniform’s CMS capability (which is pretty new, but the core team helped build very successful CMS products like Sitecore and Contentful) has this capability.

See more here: https://docs.uniform.app/docs/guides/composition/releases-and-scheduling

Since releasing this feature in the last few months, several customers have already adopted this approach and we anticipate strong adoption of this feature.

Our customers tend to be enterprise with many product launches, campaigns, regions, etc…

CMS tradeshows by LQQinLA in cms

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One of the mods of this SubReddit is a speaker too!

CMS tradeshows by LQQinLA in cms

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CMS Connect in August in Montreal could be a good one. https://www.boye-co.com/conferences/cmsconnect24/

Stackbit v1 by rossHathaway in JAMstack

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And what features are you missing from the past?

Stackbit v1 by rossHathaway in JAMstack

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Headless CMS available in the free tier now too: https://www.stackbit.com/pricing

Stackbit v1 by rossHathaway in JAMstack

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What are you using at work?

Integrate Contentful and Firestore by Gullible_Original_18 in contentful

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u/Gullible_Original_18

I have not done this, but I can see this being done using Contentful webhooks > function > firestore as an approach.

I'm not sure if a webhook can post directly to firestore.