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In the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Headless CMS 2025 Vendor Assessment
See how dotCMS empowers technical and content teams at compliance-led organizations.
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dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
Learn how to bootstrap a headless CMS project with Next.js using @dotcms/create-app CLI. Skip documentation overload and render your first content in minutes.
Afaq Javed
Developer Relations
Choosing between a DXP and a CMS is not about labels. It is about finding the right balance of experience capabilities, governance, and cost for your enterprise. This guide breaks down the DXP vs CMS landscape, compares leading platforms, and explains why many organizations land in the middle with an enterprise CMS approach.
Jason Smith
Co-founder
Debugging dotCMS is less about panic and more about knowing where to look. This guide walks through the most reliable places to check when something feels off, confusing, or just plain stubborn.
Laura Cabrerizo
Solutions Engineer
Scaling to thousands of partner sites isn’t just an architecture challenge — it’s a usability one. Learn how Solvisse built a UX-first control layer on top of dotCMS to give partners safe editing freedom without sacrificing governance or brand control.
Learn why AI content governance is essential for content teams. Discover how to protect brand consistency, reduce legal risk, and manage AI across dozens of sites with dotCMS’s built-in governance tools.
Fatima Nasir Tareen
Marketing Specialist
dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
Step-by-step guide to implementing a dotAI site search widget in dotCMS. Learn how to create secure API tokens, configure VTL files, add AI-powered search to pages, and customize indexes for better content discovery.
Laura Cabrerizo
Solutions Engineer
Learn to configure and implement dotAI in your dotCMS environment for enhanced content creation, automation, and intelligent search functionality.
Laura Cabrerizo
Solutions Engineer
Stop drowning in metadata, translations, and tagging busywork—let dotAI handle the tedious stuff so your team can focus on what actually matters.
Learn why AI content governance is essential for content teams. Discover how to protect brand consistency, reduce legal risk, and manage AI across dozens of sites with dotCMS’s built-in governance tools.
Fatima Nasir Tareen
Marketing Specialist
Discover how strong content governance drives faster time to market, reduces compliance risk, and ensures brand consistency for compliance-led organizations managing content across dozens of sites.
Fatima Nasir Tareen
Marketing Specialist
Eliminate developer bottlenecks with the dotCMS Content Style Editor, empowering content teams to instantly customize component styling, improve content reuse, and accelerate publishing without code.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
Discover how to select the best multilingual content management system (CMS) to enhance your global digital strategy. Learn about essential features, localization benefits, and how to maximize SEO, user engagement, and conversions.
Inna Bosenko
VP, Marketing
Healthcare organizations are outgrowing static intranets and scattered file systems. A modern, governance-first intranet helps administrators centralize policies, streamline communication, and maintain compliance across hospitals, clinics, and regions.
Join VP of Product Freddy Montes for a walk through of the exciting things dotCMS is working on in 2026
Freddy Montes
Product Manager
Eliminate developer bottlenecks with the dotCMS Content Style Editor, empowering content teams to instantly customize component styling, improve content reuse, and accelerate publishing without code.
Marc Boutillette
Director Outbound Product
Modernizing a CMS isn’t about fixing what’s broken, it’s about leading its evolution. In this post, we share how dotCMS is taking a UX-led approach to future-proof the platform, aligning usability, scalability, and long-term product strategy to support what’s next.
Announcing four upcoming modernization initiatives to the dotCMS platform: the full transition to an Evergreen release model, a major core upgrade to Java 25, migration from OpenSearch 1.x to 3.x, and the start of a journey to full IPv6 infrastructure.
Pulling related content in dotCMS shouldn't be complicated, yet developers often struggle choosing between GraphQL, REST APIs, or Velocity. We break down when to use each approach with real examples and practical decision criteria.
Learn why AI content governance is essential for content teams. Discover how to protect brand consistency, reduce legal risk, and manage AI across dozens of sites with dotCMS’s built-in governance tools.
Discover how strong content governance drives faster time to market, reduces compliance risk, and ensures brand consistency for compliance-led organizations managing content across dozens of sites.
dotAI Search is now built into the @dotcms/client SDK. One method call gives your headless app semantic AI-powered search in under 15 minutes.
Give your dotCMS a test drive on modern Java. Our new Java 25-based containers are live, easy to spin up with a single Docker command, and already showing faster startup, leaner memory use, and a stronger security footing. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to try the `java-25` images locally, what to expect from the upgrade, how to rebuild your plugins in a few minutes, and why we’re asking you to kick the tires now, long before Java 11 support sunsets.
Join VP of Product Freddy Montes for a walk through of the exciting things dotCMS is working on in 2026