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Keep up to date with everything happening at AgilityCMS. We also write about industry news, content marketing, Ecommerce, Jamstack DevOps and digital content publishing tips and tricks.

Why Canadian Insurers Are Replacing Adobe AEM and Sitecore in 2026

Apr. 13, 2026
CMS
Headless CMS
Using Agility CMS
Canadian insurers who implemented Adobe AEM or Sitecore are now managing rebuild cycles, developer-heavy operations, and platforms misaligned with modern compliance requirements. Here's what's driving...
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Your Insurance Broker Portal Content is Hurting Your Distribution

Apr. 10, 2026
Best Practices
Content
If your broker portal is showing last week's rates, you're not just creating friction, you're losing placement share to carriers who've solved this problem. Here's why broker portal content lags and w...
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How to Pass an OSFI B-10 Vendor Risk Assessment for Your CMS

Apr. 08, 2026
Data
Cyber Security
Insurance
Compliance
Since May 2024, insurance content management systems are a regulated third-party arrangement under OSFI B-10. Here's what insurance security, legal, and compliance teams will ask from vendors and what...
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Website Replatform Dilemma: The Real Costs of Replacing Your CMS Every Few Years

Apr. 07, 2026
Return on Investment (ROI)
Web Content Management
CMS
The replatform cycle costs more than you think. Learn why it keeps repeating and how composable architecture helps you break out of it.
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Is AI Safe? We Built a Policy by Actually Using It.

Apr. 07, 2026
Best Practices
Everyone asks "is AI safe?" like it's a yes or no question, and it's really not that. We built our internal AI policy by watching how our team actually uses these tools, asking hard questions before t...
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Top 10 Web Development Trends & Technologies For 2026

Apr. 06, 2026
Developer Tools
Web developers have always worked in fast-moving environments. New tools emerge constantly, frameworks evolve, and the expectations of the people using the products you build keep rising. The challeng...
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The Real Cost of Developer Dependency in Insurance Content Operations

Apr. 06, 2026
Back End Development
Front End Development
Content Platform
Every IT ticket your marketing team opens to publish a content update is costing more than you think. Here's how to calculate what developer dependency is actually costing your insurance organization,...
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Managing English and French Insurance Content Without Running Two Parallel Operations

Apr. 01, 2026
Insurance
Content
Most Canadian insurers meet their English and French content obligations by running two separate operations, which creates version drift, compliance gaps, and double the publishing workload. Here's wh...
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What Canadian Data Residency Actually Means for Your CMS Contract

Mar. 30, 2026
Insurance
Data
Canadian data residency appears on every vendor's sales deck, but what matters is whether it's in the contract and where your data lives during backups and disaster recovery. Here's what to ask before...
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Next.js 16.2 Adapters Are Here: Deploy Anywhere and Let Hosting Providers Compete on Real Value

Mar. 27, 2026
Developer Tools
Next.js 16.2 introduces a stable Adapter API that lets you deploy your app on any hosting platform with full feature support. Here is why this changes everything for developers and the CMS community.
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We Built an AI Data Security Policy. Here's What We Actually Decided (and Why).

Mar. 25, 2026
Every SaaS company is using AI right now. Most of them don't have a policy for it. Here's how we built ours, what we decided, and why it matters for your company too.
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Agility CMS vs. Storyblok: A Strategic Headless CMS Comparison for Developers

Mar. 24, 2026
Developer Tools
Front End Development
A detailed, developer-centric comparison of Agility CMS and Storyblok.
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Five signs your CMS is costing you more than you think

Mar. 19, 2026
CMS
Most enterprise teams   don't   wake up one day and decide to switch their CMS. It happens gradually. A developer queue that never clears. A campaign that launched two weeks late. A new digital ch...
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My Story: 21 Years of Building Agility CMS

Mar. 19, 2026
Joel Varty shares his personal journey from studying English at the University of Guelph to building one of the longest-running headless CMS platforms in the industry, and why he believes AI-native co...
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Agility CMS vs. Storyblok: A Strategic Headless CMS Comparison for Marketers

Mar. 17, 2026
Web Content Management
Content Marketing
Agile CMS
A marketer-focused comparison of Agility CMS and Storyblok.
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