The entire life cycle of a document or multimedia file needs to be managed. This includes tasks such as storage, tracking of changes, archiving and clean up. Content management systems can do all this and also offer: ?#Collaboration during content creation: This is often an extremely critical feature because there is plenty of scope for [...]

Evaluation of the CMS Here are a few criteria to evaluate the CMS on:

As the ecommerce world wakes up to the importance of content management systems, the programmers are building easier to use, and more powerful CMSs to handle the demand. Some of the most powerful are free, like Drupal. Free content management systems do work well, but free doesn’t mean easy. A good programmer can build a [...]

The term “storage” means temporary storage while the term “preservation” means long-term storage. Both may use the same kinds of media to store the content, though long-term storage often uses read-only media. In addition to repositories, the “storage” component includes library services and storage technologies. Library services provide access to the content in the [...]

I am interested in designing a website that has very specific functionality and an easy to deal with back-end. I have used Joomla in the past, but am interested in making something professional. Should I start from scratch. Is there an industry standard that most professional online services use or do they re-invent the wheel [...]

The ECM Association ,AIIM, defines ECM as: “…the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization’s unstructured information, wherever that information exists.” The focus of the definition above is on tools and technologies. AIIM itself emphasizes [...]

Along with Content Storage, Preservation, and Delivery, Capture is one of the key components of Enterprise Content Management. This article will explore the ways content is captured in ECM systems. Capture typically consists of acquiring raw data and then processing it in some way. Data Capture Data can be captured manually by ECM [...]

What is content? What does content management involve? And what is special about enterprise content management? This introductory article will seek to answer these questions. In today’s context, content means digital information. This information typically resides in text documents, audio or video files and other kinds of digital files. Digital information is easier to [...]

Do you think that your website could use a good content management system? If you think about the content on your page as a lure and the clusters of keywords on your page is bait, you’ll find that it is important to be appealing to the search engines. When you think about it, the continuity [...]

With a rapidly changing world , an abundance of information, it is a common knowledge that all websites require constant updates as static content simply isn’t useful to visitors and customers. It is also forcing organizations to find creative ways of leveraging this information or content to create a competitive advantage. These organizations can look [...]