Types of CMS
There are four main categories of CMS, with their respective domains of use:
Enterprise content management systems
- An enterprise content management (ECM) system is concerned with content, documents, details and records related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose is to manage the organization’s unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location.
Content management system Features
A CMS may support the following features:
- Identification of all key users and their content management roles.
- The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
- Definition of workflow tasks for collaborative creation, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content. (For example, a content creator submits a story, which is published only after the copy editor revises it and the editor-in-chief approves it.)
- The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
- The ability to capture content (e.g., scanning).
- The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. (Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.)
- Separation of presentation and content so material can be refactored for new uses. (E.g., use the same base content in different ways for desktop browsers, mobile browsers, and print output.)
Content management system
A content management system (CMS) such as a document management system (DMS) is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.
Web Content Management System History
Web Content Management Systems began to be formally developed as a commercial software products in the mid nineties. In the mid 2000s, the web content management market became a fragmented market as a plethora of new providers emerged to complement the traditional vendors. These Web Content Management systems are typically broken down into several groups: