Content Management
At the risk of stating the obvious, it could be said that a content management system is quite simply - a system that manages content. However, it is precisely the obviousness of what a CMS is and does, that has created a degree of confusion amongst 'would be' purchases of such a system...
Enterprise Content Management
In order to create a distinction between smaller home grown solutions that cater for local or niche markets with niche products, term 'Enterprise' evolved to indicate that a vendors product suite targets a broader market or more than one niche type of content management...
Document Management
Document management is one of the oldest of the content management disciplines - and was essentially born out of the need to manage ever growing amounts of information being created within organisations...
Web Content Management
A WCMS typically enforces a structure on the pages being created – often referred to as templates. The structure (representing the layout ‘code’ for the web page) is typically concealed from the editor or author – so that the only task they have to complete is the insertion of content into a ‘blank structured web page’...
