CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS) Bakor KamalCIS 764

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS)Bakor KamalCIS 764

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What is CMS? What is WCM? How much is a CMS? Example of a CMS Structure. Why CMS? CMS vs. Portal Who's using CMS? Demo. References. Questions.

11/15/2007Department of Computing and Information Sciences - Kansas State University

What is CMS?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing, editing and publishing documents and other content. A content management system is sometimes a web application used for managing websites and web content.

CMS used mainly for websites.


What is WCM?

Web content management (WCM) is a bundled or stand-alone application used to create, manage, store and deploy content on Web pages.

Web content types can include text, graphics and photos, video or audio, and application code that renders other content or interacts with the visitor.

WCM may also catalog or index content, or deliver content to specific visitors in a personalized way or in different languages.


How much is a CMS?

Commercial, high cost (> $15,000):


Name Database Platform

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft SQL Server (2000 or 2005)

.NET

IBM Workplace Web Content Management

Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2

J2EE

Documentum Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2

Java

How much is a CMS? Cont.

Commercial, medium cost ($5,000 - $15,000)

Commercial, low cost (< $5,000) Free and open source software


Name Database Platform

Wiki MySQL, some (Oracle, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, )

J2EE, Windows

Joomla! MySQL J2EE

OpenCms

MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

J2EE

Example of a CMS Structure.


Source. WebsiteSource.com http://www.websitesource.com/hosting/mambo-cms.shtml

Why CMS?

There are a wide range of business benefits that can be obtained by implementing a CMS, including:

faster turnaround time for new pages and changes

improved site navigation support for decentralized authoring reduced duplication of information greater capacity for growth reduced site maintenance costs


CMS vs. Portal

Factor CMS Portal

Integration with legacy application.

CMS products cannot integrate legacy applications well

Integration is an important factor for considering portal such as JBoss Portal

Ease of use Most of the CMS packages doesn’t take more than a few hours to install with a few meaningful customization options.

Portal products are more complex.

Price CMS products are less price comparing with portals

Portal products are more expensive than many CMSs and therefore the ROI can be less.

Single point of access to business systems (Single Sign In)

Available Better integration with other business systems


CMS vs. Portal Cont.

Factor CMS Portal

Personalization Personalization in CMS is better an more practical because of applying the role-based personalization

Available


Who's using CMS?

Wikipedia.org: Wiki Lexmark, Nokia, Time-Warner, Fox News

Online, and The Guardian: Vignette Apache Foundation: Drupal is chosen to

run an internal site.


Demo

http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~bakor/new/administrator/index.php

http://arabedu.net/sacm/administrator/


References

Content management system. (2007, November 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:14, November 14, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Content_management_system&oldid=171301044

List of content management systems. (2007, November 14). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:15, November 14, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_content_management_systems&oldid=171504054

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 FAQ. In Microsoft Home. Retrieved November 14, 2007, from http://www.microsoft.com/cmserver/faq.mspx

CMS or Web Portal Software? Retrieved November 14, 2007, from http://atlanticwebfitters.ca/VendorNeutralWhitePapers/CMSorPortalSoftware/tabid/174/Default.aspx


Questions


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CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS) Bakor KamalCIS 764