Content Management Systems

Managment of shared resources.

 

Web Content Management Systems

• deliver this content for the web.

Enterprise Content Managment Systems

• are at the enterprise level and may not involve (though usually do) the web.

Types:

• Commercial versus Freeware/opensource
• SAS (software as a service) versus You Host

Why go with Content Management Systems(or related Application Service Framework )?

Consider the example of a real estate agent with 500 houses for sale. In a static web site, the agent would have to create 500 pages in order to make the information available. In a dynamic website, the agent would simply connect the dynamic page to a database table of 500 records.

How do you choose - consider these items:

• language/system requirements (and your capabilities)
• support
• longevity
• latest update
• industry support and use
• databases support

Examples below taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems --look there for updates

SAS Examples

Name	Platform	Entry Level Pricing
amilia CMS	PHP	proprietary
Avactis	PHP	$19.95
Adobe Business Catalyst	.Net	from $16 per month
Goss Interactive	Java
Microsoft SharePoint Server	.Net	from $3 per user and month
uCoz	n/a
O3spaces	Java

Free/OpenSource Examples

Java

PHP

• Drupal

• (pronunciation: /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.It is used as a back-end system for over 1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.