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A web content management system (WCMS)^[1] is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. A robust WCMS provides the foundation for collaboration, offering users the ability to manage documents and output for multiple author editing and participation.

Most systems use a database to store page content, metadata, and other information assets that might be needed by the system.

A presentation layer displays the content to website visitors based on a set of templates. The templates are sometimes XSLT files.^[2]

Most systems use server side caching to improve performance. This works best when the WCMS is not changed often but visits happen regularly.

Administration is typically done through browser-based interfaces, but some systems require the use of a fat client.

A WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to a website with little training. A WCMS typically requires a systems administrator and/or a web developer to set up and add features, but it is primarily a website maintenance tool for non-technical staff.

- Automated templates

- Access Control

- Scalable expansion

- Easily editable content

- Scalable feature sets

- Web standards upgrades

- Workflow management

- Collaboration

- Delegation

- Document management

- Content syndication

- Multilingual

- Versioning

[CMS - Web Content Management Types]

- Offline processing

- Online processing

- Hybrid systems

[CMS - Web Content Management Advantages]

- Low Cost

- Easy Customization

- Easy to use

- Workflow management

[CMS - Web Content Management Disadvantages]

- Cost of implementation

- Cost of maintenance

- Storage Volume

- Latency issues

- Latency issues

- Tool Mixing

Enterprise content management (ECM) represents both a strategy to deal with all types of unstructured content and a set of software products for managing the entire content life cycle. Those who lead ECM projects, typically application managers and enterprise architects, confront critical decisions about how to manage a growing number of information types and whether to choose strategic infrastructure tools or best-of-breed offerings.

ECM technologies are frequently provided as part of an integrated suite or platform and include:

Document management – Document and image check-in/check-out, version control, security and library services

Web content management – Automating Web master tasks, managing dynamic content and managing content authoring

Records management – Rules for content disposition and automation of retention and compliance policies

Document capture – Basic imaging functionality for capturing and managing paper documents

Social content – unstructured data (documents, images, video) primarily destined for human consumption. Social content is created, vetted, marked up or delivered through a social process or channel.

Workflow (as integrated with document management, Web content management and records management products) – Supporting business processes and routing content, assigning work tasks and states, and creating audit trails