2813: Beyond Headless: Hygraph's Vision for the Future of CMS
Tech Talks DailyFebruary 25, 202432:2726 MB

2813: Beyond Headless: Hygraph's Vision for the Future of CMS

In today's digital age, where content is not just king but the cornerstone of customer engagement, how can businesses stay ahead in crafting the next generation of customer experiences? This pivotal question brings us to an enlightening conversation with Michael Lukaszczyk, co-founder and CEO of Hygraph, on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast, hosted by Neil C. Hughes.

Michael takes us through a journey into the evolution of content management systems (CMS), highlighting the transformation from traditional web CMS to headless CMS, and now to the groundbreaking realm of federated content platforms. With the global digital content creation market projected to reach $24 billion by 2027, the pressure is on for organizations to deliver fast, personalized services reminiscent of Netflix and Amazon's seamless experiences.

Hygraph emerges as a beacon for organizations navigating the complex landscape of digital content management. Michael elucidates how Hygraph's federated content platform is revolutionizing the CMS industry by enabling businesses to federate content sources into a single universal content API. This innovation not only future-proofs CMS investments but also significantly cuts down integration costs, allowing for the rapid development and scaling of connected digital experiences.

Moreover, Michael shares insights into the role of AI and machine learning in automating content creation and personalization, a frontier that promises to redefine how digital experiences are developed. The conversation also touches upon the importance of synergy between marketing/content teams and engineering teams in creating engaging digital experiences.

From his early days of coding websites at age 11 to his profound realization of the potential of headless CMS and GraphQL, Michael's journey is a testament to the power of innovation and vision in the tech world. Join us as we explore the future of content management systems, the burgeoning role of AI in content personalization, and how Hygraph is leading the charge towards more integrated, dynamic, and personalized digital experiences.

As businesses and creators alike strive to meet the ever-evolving expectations of their users, what will the next leap in content management look like? Tune in to this fascinating episode with Michael Lukaszczyk, and share your thoughts on how we can navigate the future of content in the digital era.

[00:00:00] Are you ready to dive into the future of content management and discover how technology is

[00:00:07] shaping the next generation of customer experiences?

[00:00:11] While in today's episode of Tech Talks Daily, we're going to explore the intersection

[00:00:15] of technology, real world solutions, content management systems and so much more.

[00:00:22] Because today I'm going to be joined by a visionary in the tech world he's the co-founder

[00:00:26] and CEO of a company called HighGraph.

[00:00:29] And his name's Michael and he's been at the forefront of the technological innovation

[00:00:33] since he began coding websites at the tender age of 11, and with a career deeply rooted

[00:00:39] in technology, Michael brings a wealth of knowledge and insights into the evolution of

[00:00:43] content management systems.

[00:00:45] From those early days of web CMS to the cutting edge federated content platforms, we're

[00:00:51] going to embark on a journey through the advancements that are defining how businesses

[00:00:55] connect with their audiences in this digital age.

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[00:01:57] But now let's get today's guest on.

[00:02:00] So buckle up and hold on tight as I beam your ears all the way to Germany when Michael

[00:02:05] is waiting a share history.

[00:02:08] So a massive warm welcome to the show.

[00:02:11] Can you tell everyone listening a little about who you are and what you do?

[00:02:15] Thanks Neil for having me.

[00:02:17] I'm Michael.

[00:02:18] I'm the co-founder and CEO of high graph.

[00:02:21] We are providing a next generation content management platform that is very developer centric

[00:02:28] and I'm happy to have the call with you today.

[00:02:30] Great to have you join me.

[00:02:32] And one of the things I'd love to do is find out more about my guest's origin story,

[00:02:36] the back story and what put them on the path that they're doing and what they're doing

[00:02:39] now.

[00:02:40] So what's your origin story?

[00:02:41] There's always a story right?

[00:02:43] Absolutely.

[00:02:44] So I've been in tech for pretty much all my life.

[00:02:47] I started coding at the age of 11, of course, that time it was not serious coding.

[00:02:52] It was like putting animated gifts on a website but I really loved what I was doing.

[00:02:58] So over time I became the guy building websites and web apps for friends and family later

[00:03:04] on for the businesses of friends and family.

[00:03:06] And then I decided to study computer science which I did mostly in Germany.

[00:03:11] After my master's degree in computer science,

[00:03:14] I started at only one company to work as an employee as a software developer.

[00:03:18] I started a company called Kanto.

[00:03:20] They're in the digital asset management space.

[00:03:23] So they're doing you can imagine like a drop box or Google drives for the enterprise

[00:03:29] with a market year focus.

[00:03:31] So file asset management and in particular, I was in the professional services of that

[00:03:35] company.

[00:03:36] So I would build integrations for really cool customers they had but I wouldn't build

[00:03:41] core product and that's always wanted to build core product and always take care of

[00:03:45] the distribution of the product as well.

[00:03:47] Also, along the way short at this company I met Daniel was my good friend co-founder

[00:03:52] and CTO.

[00:03:54] We thought we were able to build fantastic products so we left Kanto actually would start

[00:04:00] out building also a digital asset management system because we had the vertical know how

[00:04:04] and we had a lot of ideas how to improve what the product was doing.

[00:04:09] We were working it but really randomly it was early 2016.

[00:04:14] There was a blog post that popped up in my Twitter feed.

[00:04:18] Sprite evening shortly before bad and the blog post was called what is a headless content

[00:04:22] management system and early 2016 I didn't know what I had the CMS was.

[00:04:26] Frankly no one really knew what I had with CMS was at that time, but I was reading the

[00:04:30] article and now I was pretty amazed by what this reading I really love the concept of

[00:04:35] the headless CMS or mostly for being very sustainable and durable product model.

[00:04:42] So the headless CMS helps you basically distributing content on any platform not just websites

[00:04:48] it can help you distributing content to mobile apps smart TVs etc. even the new Apple

[00:04:55] goggles that were just released last week I believe you're already set distribute your

[00:05:03] content to this platform as well so that's what I really loved and at the same time GraphQL

[00:05:10] was just released that time was reading the blog post and Daniel and me were a huge fan

[00:05:15] voice basically of GraphQL we adopted the technology already in our other product prototype

[00:05:21] that we would build and we really liked it and what we then later did with high graph

[00:05:26] by the way formerly the company was called graph CMS we rebranded around 1.5 years

[00:05:32] ago what we did is we combined the concept of GraphQL so what we loved about GraphQL

[00:05:38] so it's a new API technology that increases your developer experience or newer by now

[00:05:43] it's not so new anymore and the headless CMS and we built the first GraphQL native headless

[00:05:48] CMS in the market which would mean you could use GraphQL to distribute your content onto

[00:05:53] any platform speed web mobile even out a new Apple Vision Pro.

[00:05:59] We've mentioned the Apple Vision Pro a few times are you tempted it's a big entry point

[00:06:04] price wise isn't it? I am tempted to be honest so last week actually

[00:06:10] coincidentally I've been in San Francisco when the goggles that the Vision Pro were released

[00:06:17] and we made a trip to the Apple Mother Ship because there's a visitor center with Apple

[00:06:22] store next to it and of course you would see also a couple of Cybertracks parking in front

[00:06:26] of it it was also the first time I saw some Cybertracks but no chance there was a gigantic

[00:06:31] line for testing the Vision Pro. I'm tempted I would love to try them out.

[00:06:38] Yeah 100% you shared your origin story there I looked a lot more about the back story

[00:06:44] of content management systems too because they evolved tremendously over the last two

[00:06:48] decades particularly in relation to the shift from traditional CMS to headless CMS and

[00:06:54] now to federated content platform for anyone listening outside of the space could you just

[00:06:59] give a bit of an overview on that journey that kind of content management systems have been

[00:07:04] on happy to have you do so content management systems have been around for quite some

[00:07:08] time they appear starting to appear in the 90s and we see them as there's been three

[00:07:16] major generations of content management platforms or systems.

[00:07:20] The first one being the web content management systems also really the easy days of the

[00:07:26] internet let's say our content management because you only needed to get your content

[00:07:30] onto a website in the web CMS so basically the traditional content management system

[00:07:35] would help you it would give you both it will give you the interface where you could manage

[00:07:38] your content in the back office but it would also give you help you building the website that

[00:07:44] is later on presented to your audience. So there was a really tight coupling between

[00:07:48] the back office and the content creation as well as the presentation of the content so we say

[00:07:53] that it's that was the time where there was a one to one relationship between the content generation

[00:07:58] process the back office and the presentation later. Now then as soon we have done we had the

[00:08:06] conversation about new devices already as soon as smartphones and other new smart devices would

[00:08:12] enter the market 10, 15 years ago really gaining rapid popularity the web CMS wouldn't cut it

[00:08:19] anymore because for a lot of platforms let's say a native iPhone app or native Android app or maybe

[00:08:27] native smart TV app or for any of the smart TV operating systems they wouldn't render websites you

[00:08:34] would build custom applications for these platforms and you wouldn't render your content coming from

[00:08:40] a website you needed to get to the pure data of your content and so the web CMS wouldn't cut it

[00:08:46] anymore that was really the era of the headless CMS this is where we also got started back then as

[00:08:52] graph CMS now I had the CMS will turn the condom management system front and agnostic it would

[00:08:57] mean that now you could distribute your content onto any of the platforms out there using an API

[00:09:04] and not the visual website as an interface to the content and so that would abstract things nicely

[00:09:11] away so we went from a one to one relationship to one to many relationship and the web CMS became

[00:09:17] front and agnostic now with what we are developing for quite some time now and we've entered

[00:09:23] the market and educating the market and position ourselves around that topic around the capability

[00:09:30] a lot is that we are looking into we're building the next generation of content management platform

[00:09:36] that we call the federated content platform federated content management platform if you will

[00:09:43] and what we are doing with this is we're turning the promise of the headless CMS around by not

[00:09:48] just being front and agnostic but also being back and agnostic that means that you cannot just

[00:09:53] distribute your content to any platform no you can source your content and data from any other

[00:09:59] back end tool that lives within your stack very often in large organizations you have multiple CMSes

[00:10:05] you have product information management systems you have digital asset management systems

[00:10:11] you have custom database legacy systems there's a lot of APIs and data sources so called

[00:10:18] data silos that is really where you would really want to expose this data and use this data and

[00:10:26] applications that you're building and with content federation so one of the differentiated

[00:10:32] tiger of key capabilities you can easily integrate third-party APIs so any rest or GraphQL API into

[00:10:40] one universal content graph and that allows your developers to build those web sites those mobile apps

[00:10:46] those app-vision apps very easy if you have the requirement of pulling data from multiple

[00:10:53] data sources which is sort of the new normal of the composable error if you will.

[00:11:01] I'm going to be exciting times and there's of course some huge figures attached to this industry as

[00:11:06] well in fact I've recently read that the digital content creation market is projected to reach

[00:11:11] 24 billion dollars by 2027 so just a few years away so how do you see content driving the next

[00:11:18] generation of customer experience is especially the context of personalization. Yeah, speed because

[00:11:23] it's racing ahead isn't it? It is an enormous market it is gigantic and one key trend that we are

[00:11:33] observing throughout the last couple of years I mean it's going on for a while now is that content

[00:11:40] is not just the marketing asset anymore very often content is being the the asset that is sold by a

[00:11:47] company already so content is becoming a business model and it's not just a supportive function of

[00:11:53] marketing to sell any let's say physical product like like the iPad or so. Think of applications

[00:12:00] as Netflix where you pay subscription for the content that is being maintained and generated

[00:12:07] or think of peloton the workout application that is that you can watch and use on your bike. Now this

[00:12:16] is also content and this content needs to be managed by content management systems such as

[00:12:22] high graph like ours and we see more and more throughout the years that the ownership of content

[00:12:30] creation is not anymore necessarily by the market years of course that's still true for the marketing

[00:12:36] content but there's more and more content that is domain specific and that is really driving this

[00:12:42] market and pushing this market to become bigger because the the primary product of companies is

[00:12:50] becoming content such as Netflix, peloton many others out there so this market will just grow bigger

[00:12:58] and you mentioned personalization I think it's necessary nowadays I think personalization you

[00:13:08] can integrate very well with content management systems so that your users become the content

[00:13:13] be it the Netflix and release be it the products be it the workouts that you want to do

[00:13:19] exactly for your requirements and I think even with AI we will see even stronger personalization

[00:13:26] because models AI models will be able to learn and identify yourself much better and probably

[00:13:33] better even understand you better than you do yourself what you want and what you want to consume

[00:13:40] next so exciting times ahead I would say. And for any business leaders listening and from the

[00:13:46] conversations you're having with your customers what would you say are the main challenges that

[00:13:51] businesses are facing right now with traditional CMS and headless CMS models and how are you addressing

[00:13:57] these issues with this like this? Yes, absolutely so what we see over and over again in the

[00:14:03] stacks of our customers is that there's a lot of locking going on I mentioned that there's a lot

[00:14:10] of hidden data and content silos in the back ends of the customer stacks in the architectures

[00:14:17] and getting this data and information out to where you need it when you build applications

[00:14:23] is really hard and cumbersome so there's a lot of data silos going on and how companies

[00:14:32] that have a lot of silos going on and a lot of data sources used to solve this before

[00:14:38] high graph before content federation is basically they would build their own middleware layer so it's

[00:14:44] a custom custom software development you built a new API layer that sort of understands what is

[00:14:52] happening under the hood in your enterprise stack pulls the data from your different CMSs

[00:14:56] from your pims from your dams from legacy systems from other from from other third party systems such

[00:15:03] as search personalization maybe even and expose us new APIs for developers so they can build applications

[00:15:11] leveraging the data out of those sources now this sounds alright this sounds like a solution to

[00:15:16] the problem but the problem with this is that it's very expensive to build this middleware layer so

[00:15:21] you have to design it you have to develop it you have to maintain it you have to secure it you have

[00:15:26] to wire it with global CDNs to make sure that your APIs and your end customer experiences are

[00:15:33] being served with below 100 milliseconds because that's the expectations and all this is very

[00:15:39] challenging and you need to have a lot of know how in house to make that happen and a lot of companies

[00:15:45] simply don't have it or overspend millions millions throughout the years building this middleware

[00:15:51] layer this is what we want to get rid of in in the stack of the customers so with high graph and

[00:15:56] configuration we want to get rid of the metham in the middle we want to replace the middleware layer

[00:16:01] so many companies build custom to wire up those data silos by simply giving you the opportunity

[00:16:08] to configure your data sources we do a little bit of magic on top we make sure that everything

[00:16:14] is performant and fast as well on the API and that you are going that you can go within minutes

[00:16:21] or a couple of hours instead of weeks months or years and just to dig a little bit deeper on that

[00:16:28] can you elaborate on the concept of federated content platforms and how they can combine

[00:16:33] composability with a federated content approach to future proof CMS investments again so much

[00:16:39] value in that isn't it absolutely so let's maybe start with with the term composability use

[00:16:48] you just use this it's quite the trend in in the enterprise software development market now

[00:16:54] what composability means is composability tries to get rid of this of the old monoliths

[00:17:02] of the old monolithic software stacks where we have one or two vendors such as in a Adobe or

[00:17:09] or other others of the big software suits that give you all the functionality that you need

[00:17:16] throughout the lifecycle of product that you're building they give you a CMS they give you

[00:17:20] search they give you personalization they give you everything what you need but nothing really

[00:17:27] specialized and my dad used to say a glue that glues everything is not a good glue so in the

[00:17:34] terms of there's now in the recent years a new trend in the market so called the so called best

[00:17:42] of breed software development where companies choose the right tools for the problems that they're

[00:17:48] trying to solve and they choose the best tools they choose the best CMS that helps them

[00:17:53] that is that is best suitable for the case they have the best search engine the best personalization

[00:18:01] and that's called the best of breed stack because you choose the best tools for your needs

[00:18:06] and this would also be a composable stack because you compose the functionality now why this science

[00:18:12] sounds really really great it comes with a big disadvantage that monolithic architecture does not

[00:18:20] and this is that all of this stuff needs to be integrated together to play well and this is again

[00:18:26] the effort of the middleware that we were referring that I was referring to referring to before now

[00:18:33] with content federation content federation is our opinionated technological answer to the problems

[00:18:41] of composability content federation allows you really to take the APIs of the systems that you

[00:18:48] purchased or built together you plug them into one universal content graph and you have a new API

[00:18:54] so so called super graph even some some vendors would refer to it like that that you can use within

[00:18:59] your applications to easy integrate like a plug and play integration of this composable stack

[00:19:06] so that you can go faster you don't have any innovation bottlenecks because the middleware is

[00:19:11] basically an innovation bottleneck in a lot of cases and this is what you want to have you want to

[00:19:17] have the best systems and those should be integrated nicely seamlessly without any additional work

[00:19:24] so that you can get most out of those systems that you purchased because otherwise it's also not a

[00:19:31] great situation if you have the best of breed stack but you cannot integrate well and you cannot harvest

[00:19:37] those effects and you mentioned a moment ago about moving away from those big monoliths and a lot of

[00:19:43] those monoliths are very expensive for organizations especially large enterprises so how do you

[00:19:49] with a high graph enable organizations to reduce those integration costs and better streamline

[00:19:55] content management across various platforms and systems because it's I would imagine you get to

[00:20:00] save a lot of money with this right absolutely as mentioned like integrating very large

[00:20:06] architectures can cost you easily in the millions over time so there's a lot of efficiency

[00:20:13] potential there so what we see often is if if a company does the digital transformation to a modern stack

[00:20:23] we would usually recommend not to do a one-off migration because as a lot of software initiatives

[00:20:31] it's risky you don't know what you get in the end until you're you're there of course you can

[00:20:37] derisk but it's a low process what is easier is just taking a functionality step-by-step

[00:20:47] migrating it over to new components and try to integrate the old world with the new world which

[00:20:54] you can do with content federation and seamlessly do a step-by-step migration over time so you

[00:21:02] can take yourself time you can test in between you can reevaluate and it's really the risk

[00:21:08] so we wouldn't recommend the one-off migration because there's so many eventually so many moving

[00:21:14] parts rip one piece out move it to the new stack and and and and and and and optimize and then

[00:21:23] you go to the next piece you want to rip out basically and with the introduction of top-level

[00:21:29] remote fields in high graph as well what other capabilities does that bring to enterprises and how do

[00:21:35] they maybe change the way that they could manage and unify content so again feels like a big change

[00:21:40] then absolutely so the top-level remote fields is actually the main functionality of federation

[00:21:47] capability we introduced content federation a while ago in a way that that you could

[00:21:54] stitch data from the CMS to a data point in a third-party system so let's say you have a product entry

[00:22:04] you have a product entry within the CMS use the CMS as product catalog and you have some

[00:22:09] external assets in a digital asset management system so content federation would help you

[00:22:14] stitch and join this data points together from CMS and external dams so within one single API

[00:22:20] call you could fetch all this information together so there was always this tight coupling between

[00:22:25] their head to be content already in the CMS that would be joined with a counterpart on the other

[00:22:30] side but the top-level remote fields really allow you a horizontal clustering of APIs and third-party

[00:22:38] services on your API which means that there does not need to be a content entry within

[00:22:44] high graph that you join together no you can pull all the data from third-party systems

[00:22:49] and then soon even do a reverse join so you start on third-party source and then join it together

[00:22:58] and enrich this content with content that you have created and managed within high graph

[00:23:03] because there is very very strong content management capabilities in high graph of course so

[00:23:08] based on our head of CMS heritage let's say incredibly cool and if you look into the future how do

[00:23:15] you envision the future of content management and the creation of digital experiences especially

[00:23:21] considering the rapid advancements in technology and changing consumer expectations we've already

[00:23:26] mentioned the Apple vision prior yes it's expensive at the moment but if you look three or four

[00:23:31] years down the line the the content actually was going to go through the roof and so many different

[00:23:37] different areas isn't it's going through the roof that the number the number of

[00:23:43] channels is just exploding now the Apple vision but there's there's also other channels where

[00:23:49] content management wasn't seen before and has now a big footprint like in gaming so in game

[00:23:56] assets if you play a game like Fortnite and you want to purchase a new skin for your player

[00:24:03] from the store this is also content that needs to be maintained in the content management system so

[00:24:09] there's more and more channels there's high expectations high quality expectations we had to

[00:24:16] the topic on personalization everyone expects nowadays to get a very strongly personalized experience

[00:24:23] you can also sort of configured by user-generated content so your behavior will

[00:24:29] should change the content that you will receive and I think one of the big shifts that we're

[00:24:36] already seeing and we'll see in the next couple of years is of course AI in content management

[00:24:42] there are so many there's so many opportunities for AI in content management there's the opportunity

[00:24:47] for generating content using AI digital assets the opportunity to help you going with your project

[00:24:55] so setting up the schema so the content modeling definitions that you need to get you going

[00:25:01] going faster AI can help you with that and one of the biggest bottlenecks in successful digital

[00:25:10] projects is that AI can help you building your whole application so not just the content but also

[00:25:17] the front end that is being consumed either by the browser or in your Apple vision AI can help you

[00:25:23] with that so a lot of developers nowadays are afraid that they will be out of chop in the couple

[00:25:30] of years I think it will take a bit longer but it's it's it's a future that can happen so we

[00:25:37] will see more and more machine-generated content there for as well and for any business leader listening

[00:25:43] today we'll set off those light bulb moments and then maybe they're looking at how they can better

[00:25:48] adapt to the latest in content management technologies any advice that you'd give them to

[00:25:53] maybe just ensure that they are making the most of these tools and ultimately staying ahead

[00:25:58] in this digital landscape but any tips or advice you'd leave them with listening I would say

[00:26:03] I would say it be friendly to your developers and engineers there's the there's this

[00:26:11] skismer going on in the world of content management I would say we're projects either led by

[00:26:18] by the CMO or projects either led by the CTO or CPO like the technical folks that

[00:26:25] build content products instead of just marketing websites and very often there's frictions on

[00:26:33] markets your lab projects that they don't want to collaborate as much or have too much dependencies

[00:26:41] to the engineers because they want to they have their campaigns they have their targets they need

[00:26:45] to hit they want to move as quickly as possible but the reality is if you want to build

[00:26:51] truly engaging digital experiences you need a lot of technical know how and strong technical

[00:26:58] teams will better be friendly to your developers fantastic advice we start at the podcast talking

[00:27:05] about your backstory or origin story and the the career path that you've been on here in it

[00:27:11] if I ask you to look back now I'm curious what has been the funniest or most interesting story

[00:27:16] I suspect there's a you picked a few of them up over the years too Rob it's any you're able to

[00:27:21] share there there's plenty but one in particular I like a lot if anyone from high graph is listening

[00:27:28] in right now they probably heard the story hundreds of five's already because I tell it on boardings

[00:27:33] I tell it company events dinners it's her but I really love the story how we met our first

[00:27:39] employee back then it was Graph CMS now high graph we were in beta for a couple of months we had a

[00:27:48] public beta going on and we would invite every beta sign up user to our public select community

[00:27:55] that would grow quickly to a couple of thousand folks to just gather feedback learn how people

[00:28:02] are using the platform and one day there was a guy texting me he had a feature request for

[00:28:09] a platform he needed support for GraphQL union types it's like a GraphQL functionality we didn't

[00:28:14] have at that time and we got into conversation in our slack about the feature he had all the requirements

[00:28:21] that was very good and at some point he would ask me where are you guys based are you coming from

[00:28:26] Cisco London Berlin or you I said so we're from Geeson that's close to Frankfurt probably you will

[00:28:34] know Frankfurt and he said are you kidding me I'm from Dutton-Holfen that's near Geeson so he was 20

[00:28:40] minutes away the next day we would meet he would still he he was still at university doing his

[00:28:45] masters and we would hire him then a couple of weeks later as our first employee he would start as

[00:28:53] a working student later on being full-time developer and then he would build the feature that he requested

[00:28:59] himself in the end and he's still with us and going strong with us so thank you Jonas for joining

[00:29:07] us on all that journey wow what a phenomenal story absolutely love that big hello to big shout out

[00:29:14] to him there as well hey but anyone listening one in a fun add a little bit more information about

[00:29:20] hi-graph the work that you're doing some of the topics we explored today where do you like to

[00:29:25] point everyone listening I think I think our website would be the best starting point that would be

[00:29:31] hi-graph.com or our YouTube channel we have a lot of fantastic content video content from our dev

[00:29:37] rail team so check it out hi-graph.com well I'll add a link to your website also I include a

[00:29:44] video in the blog post that I will use to promote this episode as well so see probably up to find

[00:29:48] that nice and easy but we covered so much there from content how it's driving the next generation

[00:29:54] of customer experiences organizations failing the pressure to deliver those integrated headless

[00:29:59] CMS and also how a federated content platform is the next generation of content management we

[00:30:05] could talk about this stuff for hours but just a bit. Thank you for showing your story today thanks

[00:30:10] for doing a happy to be here Neil thanks for having me. Having listened to Michael there I think

[00:30:15] it's clear that the landscape of content management is undergoing a profound transformation

[00:30:20] and today in a 30 minute conversation we traverse from the foundational web CMS to the dynamic

[00:30:25] realm of headless CMS and now the pioneering federated content platforms that are promising a

[00:30:32] new horizon of integrated personalized digital experiences and Michael's insights into us the

[00:30:38] significance of content in driving customer experience and that pivotal role of technology and what he's

[00:30:44] playing in enabling seamless scalable content distribution is invaluable isn't it? I will

[00:30:51] look to the future of CMS with AI and machine learning at the helm and hints at a world where

[00:30:56] content creation and personalization are not just intuitive but almost anticipatory crafting

[00:31:03] experience that resonate deeply with users food for sore and on that I invite you to ponder how

[00:31:10] your business is adapting to these technological evolution. Is your business ready to embrace the

[00:31:17] federated content platforms and harness the power of AI for a more connected personalized customer

[00:31:23] experience? And if not have you considered what could happen if the standard expectation of your

[00:31:30] customers are being met by your competitors and they'll move away from you when you can't offer

[00:31:36] a similar service. Well let's continue the conversation share your thoughts with me join the

[00:31:41] dialogue on how technology is not just solving real world problems but transforming the very fabric

[00:31:46] of every single digital interaction so email me tech blog right to outlook.com twitter linked in

[00:31:52] instagram just at nilc hues and love to hear from any of you and any of your thoughts or takeaways

[00:31:59] that you got from today's conversation but we've reached the end of this episode so keep

[00:32:04] innovating keep inspiring keep pushing those boundaries of what's possible and I'll join you

[00:32:09] again bright and early tomorrow so thank you for listening as always and until next time

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