(CMS) Content Management System

A content management system is a computer application used to build, change, manage, search and issue different kinds of digital media and electronic text. Content management systems are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific certification such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include image media, computer files, video files, audio files, electronic documents, and Web content. There are various nomenclatures known in this area and these are Web Content Management System, Digital Records Management, Digital Asset Management and Electronic Content Management System and so on. Based on Requirements, these are the concepts used and leveraged. The bottom line is Managing Content and publishing with also workflow if necessary with all Content Management capabilities.

A content management system may maintain the following features:

* Separation of content's semantic layer from its layout (For example, the CMS may automatically set the color, fonts, or emphasis of text.).

* The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.

* Identification of all key users and their content management roles.

* definition of workflow tasks for collaborative creation, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.

* The ability to capture content (e.g. scanning).

* The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content (Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.).

* The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.