What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

system to organize and facilitate collaborative creation of content

CMS allows to update content easily and smartly

allows publishing, editing, and modifying content as well as site maintenance from a central page

provides a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment

resides on a server and replaces web pages as a means of displaying a website. The pages do not exist and instead are created from a database on-the-fly, by the CMS software

CMS is a system that allows a user to control the development of content, as well as the management of the structure and work flow of that content

provides the ability to manage the structural layout of the site, the appearance of the published pages and the navigation provided to the users

A CMS is a dynamic way of controlling a Web site

WHY Content Management System (CMS)?

Allow for a large number of people to share and contribute to stored data

Control access to data based on user role (i.e., define information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.)

Room to grow - Easily add forums and other community building features, set up RSS feeds for your growing content, have users subscribe to newsletters, and much more

Core functionality comes standard; Quick and easy dynamic page management;

Control data validity and compliance; Reduce duplicate inputs; Simplify report writing;

Security (keep the bad guys out); Cost-effective (save some serious money);

Customization (CSS, plugins, modules, etc.); Search Engine Friendly;

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HOW Content Management System (CMS) Works?

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Data types and usage of Content Management System (CMS)?

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In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, text, pictures,phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. CMSs are frequently used for storing,controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing

serves to manage the enterprise's unstructured information content, rendering themultiplicity of file format and location more manageable. It achieves this goal bystreamlining access, eliminating bottlenecks, optimizing security, and maintainingintegrity.

Web Content Management System

stand-alone application used to create, manage, store, and deploy content on Web pages. Web content includes text, graphics and photos, video, audio, and code

Enterprise content management systems

Enterprise content management systems

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organize and store an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes. The term encompasses strategies, methods, and tools used throughout the lifecycle of the content

Collaboration

WCM

RM

WF/BPM

DM

Capture Deliver

Preserve

involves convertinginformation from paperdocuments into anelectronic formatthrough scanning

Controlling documentsfrom creation toarchiving

help users work witheach other to developand process content

Enterprise content management integrates web content management systems

administration of records, important information,

Web content management systems

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system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designedto allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markuplanguages to create and manage website content

Capabilities of web content management systems

Automated templates : Create standard output templates (usually HTML and XML)

Access Control: Some WCMS systems support user Groups. User Groups allow you to control how registered users interact with the site

Scalable expansion: ability to expand a single implementation (one installation on one server) across multiple domains

Easily editable content: much easier and quicker to edit and manipulate

Scalable feature sets: includes plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an existing site's functionality

Web standards upgrades: regular updates that include new feature sets and keep the system up to current web standards

Workflow management: creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks that must be accomplished in the CMS

Document management: life cycle of a document from initial creation time, through revisions, publication, archive, and document destruction

Content syndication: content distribution by generating RSS and Atom data feeds to other systems

Multilingual: Ability to display content in multiple languages

Versioning: Versioning is useful for content that changes over time and requires updating