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Base on my 10+ years experience working with various Content Management Systems (CMS) and 6 months using Vignette I can affirm that Vignette is THE worst CMS I have ever worked with.

I’m working for a large respected Canadian organization and we are very unhappy with Vignette. We are switching to another CMS. I won’t tell the name of the new CMS or the organization. I’m expressing my personal opinion here. And I don’t want to make publicity for the other tool before trying it.

Here are some naked facts about Vignette:

CONS:
- Their tech support is poor and slow. They aren’t able to fix simple Vignette bugs.

- Very expensive in our case $250,000 to $500,000 so far and growing.

- Vignette is mostly a Consultingware: A CMS first developed for a limited number of consulting clients, then hastily rebranded as a “product” matching everybody needs. The fact is it doesn’t match OUR needs.

- Counter-productive tool for employees. Awful workflow.

- Poor documentation & support from Vignette.

- Steep learning curve. Complicated interface.

- Security features are dangerously weak. Easy for concurrents to access sensitive information. A friend of mine is testing security features as a living to prevent hacking, according to his testing it takes less than 5 minutes to hack Vignette and access sensitive information.

PRO: Sales team. (I put this here to make a sarcastic joke. Their sales team are very good at telling LIES and DECEIVED the client.)

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