Content Management Systems - CMS

Here is a round-up of the posts in our community that relate to Content Management Systems (CMS)

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content.

A CMS may support the following features:

• User Directory provides for identification of all key users and their content management roles
• Integrated Security provides the ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types of content management transactions
• Workflow of tasks for collaborative creation, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content
• Content Tracking provides the ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content
• Multiple Inputs the ability to capture content (e.g. scanning) in multiple formats
• Content Warehouse to provide the ability to publish the content to a centralized repository to support access to the content (Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.)
• Content Segmentation and Formatting provides separation of content's semantic layer from its layout (For example, the CMS may automatically set the color, fonts, or emphasis of text.)