Content Management System or CMS is an applicaion used to manage contents and news easily, so that users can publish, edit and delete articles from the backend system. Html and other scripting languages are not necessary to operate a CMS, though having them will add more advantages.
Content Management System allows non-technical authors and editors to easily and quickly publish their content which is otherwise done by technical programmers. A web publishing CMS establishes defined publishing processes and specific publishing rights to various individuals. By using these facilities, the company can save the time for training, while facilitating more people to publish. It also reduces the daily stream of calls to the IT department for changes to the website. A web publishing management system reduces time-to-publish, allowing you to get content published faster. This is an important issue for the modern organization. The quicker you get key content published, the more value and emphasis it creates. A wide range of content can be published using the system.
This can be characterized as
- Simple pages for normal presentation
- Complex pages, with specific layout and presentation
- Dynamic information sourced from databases and will change on regular time intervals
- Training material
- Online manual
- General business documents
- Thousands of pages in total for different categories of customers
- Extensive linking between pages
