Since V7 was/is/will be the point of reference for my evaluations of other content management systems, here are a few things I do like about Vignette:
- Easy to create new content type definitions
- Extensive APIs for importing and exporting content
- Strong drinks at Vignette Village
Things I don’t like?
- Slow, especially on the content delivery side. Critical API calls seem to execute in geologic time.
- Dubiously extensible: for example, each new input widget has to be deployed as a separate webapp.
- Dubiously scalable: practical limit on the number of content items in a single repository seems to be disappointingly small.
- Documentation stinks.
- Poor integration between VAP, VCM, and DPM.
Don’t get me wrong: I do think that Vignette has its niche. But I’m not the only user to conclude that V7 is the solution for someone else’s problem.
Agreed….currently implementing V7 at wachovia.com
Started migrating from TCL V6 (which had all internally created custom CDAs/CMAs) in April 2004.
First live pages appeared on Wachovia.com in April 2008 (4 years development work with huge budget before anything went live)….
Lack of ability to create custom CMAs means ugly user experience in creating any content more complex than press releases.