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05/27/2026

At enterprise scale, asset chaos becomes a compliance risk.

Hundreds of teams. Multiple regions. Dozens of channels. Every piece of content needs to be approved, current, and traceable — before it goes anywhere.

Digital Asset Management gives compliance-led organizations a governed, centralized library where every asset is tagged, versioned, and distributed through controlled workflows. The right content reaches the right channel, every time.

Upload. Tag. Manage. Distribute. At any scale.

Read the full breakdown → dotcms.com/blog/what-is-digital-asset-management

05/19/2026

Team dotCMS had a great day at the IDC CIO Summit in New York. This year's theme, the Rise of Agentic Systems, set the tone for every conversation on the floor. Proud to have sponsored, and even prouder to see our VP of Marketing, Inna Bosenko 🇺🇦, take the stage.

Inna opened with a stat IDC itself put on the table: by 2026, GenAI and automation will drive $1 trillion in global workforce productivity gains. Her question to the room - if agentic systems are the engine, which team should see those gains first?

Her answer: the Digital Experience team. The people building, managing, and marketing digital products now account for 18–25% of headcount and up to 30% of payroll in service-based industries. That makes them the single highest-leverage place for AI to land, but only if it lands in a way that doesn't dilute the brand, erode trust, or expose risk.

That's the bet we're making at dotCMS: AI-driven accessibility, brand governance, and personalization, built into a visual headless CMS that compliance-led organizations can actually trust at scale.

Thanks to IDC for a sharp, well-run event, and to every CIO who stopped by the booth!

05/18/2026

🟣 New in dotCMS: Page Health.

Two scanners inside the Universal Visual Editor — Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) + GEO (AI readiness score). Both catch what your CMS can't see, before publish.

Included. No extra cost.

Read more: dotcms.com/blog/compliance-and-discoverability-just-got-easier-in-dotcms

05/14/2026

Can your marketing team publish content in 24 hours, or are you stuck waiting on an IT ticket?

That's the first of four questions Zain Ishaq, CEO of dotCMS, says every leader should ask about their content operations.

In this clip from Episode 15 of Real Talk, Real Trust, Zain lays out the self-audit:
- Can marketing publish in 24 hours, or does it need an IT ticket?
- Do you have a single source of truth or is content fragmented across systems?
- Can you publish the same content across web, mobile, and every other channel?
- Do you have a documented workflow that's actually enforced?

If you answered "no" to any of the above, you already know where the work is.

🎧 Link to full episode of below:
🟣Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2hiJrzFxyQYqHCemVTxpPQ?si=gUtFcHEVSvqPft2xyfYqMQ

🟣YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRrre2ZPgw&feature=youtu.be

🟣Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/winning-patient-trust-in-the-age-of-digital-healthcare/id1806177020?i=1000763068024

05/12/2026

AI assistants are easy. AI agents are an architecture problem.

When an autonomous agent needs to publish across 40 sites, respect role-based permissions, and trigger the right workflow, most CMSs hit a wall.

Closed APIs. No machine-readable content models. No governance layer agents can call into.

That's the gap dotCMS is building for.

Read the full blog:

🔗https://www.dotcms.com/blog/from-ai-assisted-to-agent-ready-how-dotcms-is-building-for-the-agentic-age

05/11/2026

May edition of dotDEV out now!

April was a plumbing month at dotCMS: visual UI for the Content Style Editor, sharper Content Editor refinements, image wrapping in the Block Editor, GraphQL responses that finally tell you what went wrong.

Inside this month:

🟣 A new 4-part headless series from our DevRel Afaq Javed (Zero to Launch, build a portfolio site with dotCMS + Next.js, end to end)

🟣Marc Boutillette on what "agent-ready" actually means at the architecture layer and why most "AI-ready" claims don't survive contact with an autonomous agent

Full issue in the article below.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dotdev-may-edition-dotcms-7dubc

01 · EDITORIAL From Jamie Mauro — Technical Writer, dotCMS Time flies; where does it all go? We lament its passage as though it signifies some loss. But time is precisely what we should ignore — indeed, forget entirely! When time slips by unnoticed, it means we have been living in those moments...

05/05/2026

Headless doesn’t have to feel complicated.

In this tutorial, Afaq Javed, our Developer Relations lead, walks through how to set up a local dotCMS instance with Docker, clone the official Next.js headless starter kit, and connect your frontend using API tokens and environment variables.

By the end, you’ll have a working Next.js app powered by dotCMS, so content updates can happen in the CMS without hardcoding changes or redeploying your site.

🟣 Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvfAWFSacS8&list=PL3Gqr5wygEszjb-ZMB3mcjkqb4-KfBXnk

🚀 Kick off your headless portfolio journey! In this video, Afaq Javed shows you how to set up a dotCMS instance locally using Docker, clone ...

05/04/2026

The DXP vs CMS decision shapes marketing speed, developer productivity, governance, and TCO.

For enterprises already invested in CRM, CDP, analytics, and commerce, the smart middle ground is often an enterprise CMS that integrates with the stack you already trust, not a full suite that forces you to replace it.

Jason Smith, Co-founder & Head of Customer Experience at dotCMS, breaks down where each option fits, and where it breaks, across seven criteria that actually matter to enterprise buyers.

🟣 Read the full guide: https://www.dotcms.com/blog/dxp-vs-cms-in-2026

04/26/2026

The digital experience is the first and only impression a patient gets before they ever set foot in your office. If any part of it —the form, the page load, the voice—misses, the patient is already looking at the next option.

In episode 15 of , join Jessica Holton, co-founder & CEO of Ours Privacy, unpack what's actually breaking in healthcare marketing right now, from content debt to small teams tasked with shipping personalized, compliant experiences at scale.

🎧 Link to full episode below:

🟣 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2hiJrzFxyQYqHCemVTxpPQ?si=gUtFcHEVSvqPft2xyfYqMQ

🟣YouTube: https://youtu.be/mXRrre2ZPgw

🟣Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/winning-patient-trust-in-the-age-of-digital-healthcare/id1806177020?i=1000763068024

04/23/2026

Small teams. Hundreds of sites. HIPAA compliance. Welcome to healthcare marketing.

That's the reality Ryan Picchini (CRO, dotCMS), Zain Ishaq (CEO, dotCMS), and Jessica Holton (co-founder & CEO, Ours Privacy) unpack in Episode 15 of 'Real Talk, Real Trust with dotCMS'.

The conversation dives into what's actually breaking for healthcare marketing teams right now. Web content is going stale faster than small teams can review it. The marketing tools teams actually need (analytics, A/B testing, attribution) quietly break HIPAA. And a single marketing team is often stuck running 50+ hospital sites where every edit routes through IT.

If you run web, content, or marketing at a compliance-led healthcare org, hit play and steal 3 ideas you can use this week.

🎧 Watch episode on

🟣YouTube: https://youtu.be/mXRrre2ZPgw

🟣Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2hiJrzFxyQYqHCemVTxpPQ?si=3f8226013b144954

🟣Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/winning-patient-trust-in-the-age-of-digital-healthcare/id1806177020?i=1000763068024