The CMS Game of Thrones

The Web Content & Experience Management (WCM) marketplace is complicated and fragmented, and we know that some of you would rather attend a Red Wedding than sit through a series of vendor demos.

In an effort to simplify still further, I offer you a Game of Thrones guide to WCM vendors.

GoT guide to WCM vendors.  Click to Enlarge

Why did we assign a vendor to a particular character? You can find the answers in our research report...

Or if you want to sample our assessment of Jaimie Lannister -- er, Adobe AEM -- that's the complimentary evaluation that you can download here.

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Sitecore, One Year Later: Progress, Wrong Center of Gravity

A year ago, Sitecore looked like a company stuck between leadership churn and reinvention theater. Today, it looks more stable, at least from the outside. Eric Stine replaced Dave O’Flanagan as CEO in May 2025, and the company’s story seems more coherent: AI-first marketing, the “agentic web,” and SitecoreAI as the new umbrella platform. It’s the expected AI pivot we’re seeing across the industry. Your mileage may vary.

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