CMS
A content management system or CMS (Content Management System in English) is a software system designed to automate as full content management, especially web sites. The aim is to reduce or eliminate programmers interference to edit and manage their sites. CMS facilitates the organization control and publication of documents or other content such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the creation of shared documents. A "Web CMS" is a CMS with additional features for ease of publishing content on various sites.
Given the complexity of web sites and the lack of a standard model, defining the CMS unit and its component parts is very difficult. The boundaries between portals, CMS systems, DMS (Document Management System) and ECS (E-commerce Systems - Electronic Commerce Systems) are not obvious and they often overlap.
eb content management systems are often used for storage and control of documents such as articles, technical manuals or other nature, sales guides and marketing brochures. A CMS can have the following functions:
- Creation and transfer of documents and multimedia material;
- Identify key users and their role in content management
- Assigning roles and responsibilities of different categories of content
- Define tasks, often coupled with sending messages according to the event so that content managers are alerted automatically when changes that affect them occur.
- Tracking and organizing multiple versions of the same content item.
- Content publication in a library to support access to content. Lately library (database) is an increasingly important part of the system, can be easily queried.
