I was surprised to see this topic for an upcoming event in NYC hosted by ISF and SIM (Feb 26, 2008). Surprised, not shocked, as I have seen enough customers to know the sentiment, and I believe that there is some truth to it.

CMS promises to be ultimate in flexibility, and it does not lives up to it all the time. Rather than accepting the limitations, many customers end up walking on heavy customization path and then find themselves in a position where base product cannot be customized any further. Now, they have invested a lot of time and money, and they still don’t have what they wanted and so the sentiment comes out, “I hate my CMS”!

I think we have to start accepting that there is no magic-bullet when it comes to CMS and CMS do have limitations. If we understand its limitations and see that we choose right platform for our current and future needs, with focus on reducing customizations, you could have a winner.

There is always a first time, and this would be my first to write a blog. I was thinking about ECM as a topic, but decided against it. I would have lot more opportunity to do so in my future blog entries.

Today, I just want to say Hi and explain how you could gleam something positive from these blog entries. I have been working in Web world since I got my first Job (12 years ago) and last 8 years, I have been working with Vignette’s ECM  products. I have seen Web world change over this period of time, to the extents that I wonder how I did my tasks without the help of current tools (I am sure some of you would understand that sentiment).

Well, enough of my talk, time to stop it here and start planning about my next topic, which would be ECM related, I promise.