Turn Your CMS From Content Storage into a Productivity Engine with Progress Agentic RAG

The data you need is already stored in your CMS. Progress Agentic RAG helps you connect this intelligence to action. These three workflows show how.

A content management system is one of the most important tools in a marketing team’s tech stack. But many times, it ends up being little more than a publishing tool. You upload pages and posts, hit publish and move on.

It is like having a smartphone and only using it to make calls. It works, but you miss out on all other features that can make life easier.

What about using the CMS to do more than just publishing?

What if it could help your team find answers faster, create briefs in less time and turn a single webinar into weeks of content?

That’s possible when your CMS is connected to a data-intelligent system. In this guide, we’ll walk through three practical ways to make that shift and turn your CMS into a real productivity engine.

The Missing Link Between Your CMS and Productivity

Every business runs on data. However, when it takes too long to find the right data, campaigns slow down, decisions are delayed and productivity declines.

The irony is that the needed data is already there. Reports, case studies, videos and campaign assets are often stored in folders or within the CMS, yet they’re difficult to access when teams need them most.

Progress Agentic RAG is the layer that bridges this gap between data and its accessibility. It connects to your CMS and other data sources, ingests content in almost any format and enriches it with AI agents.

With this small step, everything, from PDFs and webpages to videos and slides, becomes searchable in plain language. Instead of digging through files, you can simply ask a question and receive a clear, grounded answer with references to the original source.

By adding this intelligence, your CMS shifts from being just a publishing tool into a true productivity asset.

Ready to experience what this shift looks like?

In the next section, we’ll examine three workflows that demonstrate exactly how Progress Agentic RAG enables this capability.

3 Practical Ways Progress Agentic RAG Turns Your CMS Into a Productivity Asset

1. Enterprise Search for Your Internal Team

Your website content isn’t only valuable for customers. It’s also one of the best sources of inspiration and insights for your marketing team.

When planning a campaign or building a new page, you may need to revisit past case studies, reports or product launches to inform your approach.

The problem is that CMS search functions aren’t built for this. They’re keyword-based, slow and aren’t equipped to help you find what you need among thousands of pages. As a result, searching for a report published five years ago can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack.

However, with Progress Agentic RAG in your workflow, that experience changes completely. Once your CMS content is part of its data source, you can query it in plain language and get direct answers in seconds. For example, you may ask questions like:

• Which case studies mention healthcare clients?
• What benefits did we emphasize in last year’s product launch to new users?

Instead of working around your CMS to find these details manually, your team works through it, making past content instantly usable and turning it into a true productivity asset.

2. Turn Unstructured Data into Content Intelligence

Not all marketing data lives neatly inside a folder or file. Much of it is unstructured, including PDFs from an external research firm, customer interview notes, slide decks and archived reports. These formats hold valuable insights, but because they aren’t uniform or easy to scan, they rarely make it into your daily decision-making process. This is where Progress Agentic RAG shines best.

Progress Agentic RAG can transform this unstructured content into intelligence your team can use anytime.

Instead of reading through a dense report, you could ask, “What are the top customer complaints from Q2?” and get a verified list with links to the original document.

This means unstructured data stops being “dead weight” and starts fueling your team’s strategy. You can build campaign briefs backed by evidence, pull credible stats for landing pages, or distill customer feedback into sharper messaging, all without the manual grind.

What once required days of manual work can now be accomplished in minutes, allowing your team to focus more on creativity and innovation.

3. Video Indexing and AI Search for Repurposing

Video is one of the richest sources of marketing content, but it’s also one of the hardest to work with. Finding a single quote in a 40-minute webinar or repurposing clips for social content often means hours of manual review.

Progress Agentic RAG removes that barrier by automatically transcribing and indexing video files from your CMS or connected storage. Once indexed, videos become as searchable as documents. You could ask, “Show me the part where our VP explains security,” and instantly get the exact timestamp, transcript and a copyable quote ready for a blog or social post.

This same capability can also improve customer experience. A visitor exploring a demo on your website can use the site search and type, “Where do you explain pricing?” and jump straight to that segment instead of sitting through the entire video.

This approach reduces editing time, maximizes the content you can extract from each video, and helps visitors reach the information they need without delay.

Other Progress Agentic RAG Use Cases That Can Improve Your Workflow

Besides all the use cases mentioned above, Progress Agentic RAG can do more for marketing teams. As a modular platform, it’s flexible enough to fit into any department or industry use case.

Once set up, it can help with:

• Identifying content gaps to determine what to add or update
• Supporting multiple language content targeting for a global audience
• Analyzing customer feedback to understand opinions and trends

How to Get Started with Progress Agentic RAG

You don’t need a complicated setup to use Progress Agentic RAG. Here’s how to set it up and start experimenting with your own data in minutes:

• Go to the Progress Agentic RAG page and create an account.
• Create a Knowledge Box: This is your private workspace where all your content will be stored and processed.
• Upload your content: Add files, folders, URLs or even an entire sitemap. You can also sync a source so new content is updated automatically.
• Start using it: Ask questions related to the internal source and instantly get answers drawn directly from your content.

With these few steps, you already have a working setup that turns your existing content into a searchable, intelligent resource.

Get More Done with Your CMS Using Progress Agentic RAG

This article highlights just three of the ways Progress Agentic RAG can make your CMS a real productivity asset, from helping your team find answers faster to turning unstructured files into insights and unlocking more content ideas from video content.

And these are only a starting point. Any content source you already have can become part of a more intelligent workflow once it’s connected and enriched.

There’s no need to think big from the outset, either. Start with one workflow that solves an immediate pain point for your team. As you see the impact, you can layer in more use cases and gradually build an internal CMS that works harder for you.

If you’d like to see how this could work in your own environment, book a demo to see real-world use cases tailored to your needs and get hands-on guidance from the Progress team.

And now, you can use the insights of Progress Agentic RAG inside your Sitefinity website. Progress unveiled the first Generative CMS: Progress Sitefinity CMS powered by Progress Agentic RAG transforms enterprise knowledge into adaptive experiences—each assembled in real time by AI that understands your users, your brand and your goals.

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