CMS Content Management System is the abbreviation meaning “content management system.”

CMS has many excellent template-based design, web site development and accelerate the speed and reduce the development cost.

CMS function is not limited to handling text, it can also handle images, Flash animation, audio and visual flow. Image files or e-mail.

CMS also at the various types of script platform.

Content management system is the promotion of information technology and e-government new favorites is a relatively new market, For content management, the industry has not a uniform definition, different institutions have different interpretations :

Gartner Group that the content management from the connotation should include enterprise content management, Web content management, E-commerce transactions content management and the external network (Extranet) information sharing content management (CRM and SCM), Web content management is the current focus, e-business and XML is to promote the development of content management is the driving force.

Merrill Lynch analyst content management that focuses on corporate employees, business users, partners and suppliers easy access to unstructured information of the process. Content management with the purpose of publishing unstructured information to intranets, extranets and ITE (Internet Trading Exchanges), so that users can access, use, analysis and sharing. Business Intelligence (BI) focused on the structure of the value of data extraction, and content management will focus on internal and external unstructured resources from the strategic value.

Giga Group that as e-commerce engine, content management solution must be closely integrated e-commerce server, thus content production (Production) transfer (Delivery), and end-to-end e-commerce system.

We believe that content management system is a front-end Web at (Web server) and the back-end office systems or processes (within Yung create, edit) between software systems. Content management solution focused on solving various unstructured or semi-structured digital resources of the collection, management and use of information, transmission and added value, and can be integrated into the structure of the business intelligence data environments, such as OA, such as CRM. Content creators, editors, the use of published content management system to submit revised, approved and released the contents. Here refers to the “content” may include documents, forms, photographs, the data in the database or even video all you want to release to the Internet Intranet and Extranet web site information.

CMS is the right moment?

With network applications and the development of the rich, Many sites are often unable to follow up the vast amounts of information quickly and derivatives business model changes the way, often need to spend a lot of time. human and material resources to handle information updating and maintenance; encountered expanded website, integration of internal and external networks and branches for the work becomes more complicated, and even needed to re-build website; Under such circumstances, users always in a high cost and low efficiency of the cycle of upgrading, integration …

Thus, we have heard many users such as :

Making disorderly pages, the website styles are not uniform, a large amount of information accumulated release was extremely heavy;

As complicated and inefficient management manual, the manual link video and audio information is often not possible;

Application more difficult, and many need to work with technical staff to complete, the division of labor is not clear;

Change the workload and system expansion capabilities, integration to other application is reduced flexibility;

For the website and information dissemination and personnel, they are most concerned about the system’s ease of use and the function of the perfect, therefore, This website building and information dissemination tool of a very high demands.

First, a clear role to the full to ensure that the staff’s efficiency; Secondly, the functional integrity, Mun Road to meet the “gatekeeper” of applications, the accuracy of the information published. For instance, editing, art designer, editor-in-chief of staff and setting up peacekeeping operation competence, and real-time management functions.

In addition, the security framework for the safety of users is the focus of attention. Effective management of visitors to the site landing powers to the database within the network from attacks thus always ensure its security and stability, free from the worries of users.

According to the above demand, a professional content management systems CMS emerged, effective solutions to the construction site users with the information published on common problems and needs. For Web content management software is the greatest advantage in its process improvement, feature rich, items can be categorized legitimate and authorized users to edit management, users without the need to disregard the translation of the SQL syntax.

CMS is the development?

Content management, beginning in the year 2000 as an important application area, this time. COM and B2B. B2C and other experienced capital and the market test and the test People returned to the application of information technology to the fundamentals – how to improve competitiveness, Content Management and precisely to all types of enterprise assets of the selection, management, and re-use value, improve the operational efficiency and the competitiveness of the enterprises, institutions, enterprises have begun to recognize the importance of content management.

Enterprises from the information point of view, the following factors leading to the content management software to the huge demand :

(1) knowledge is wealth. Internet interactive process, involving only 10% of sales, and the other nine-tenths of all information exchange, staff knowledge acquisition increasingly dependent on the Internet, e-commerce, particularly in the character-based environment, customers to make purchase decisions, the need to obtain intelligence information, not just the quantity and commodity prices, Perhaps even more important is the product manual, security assurances, technical indicators and after-sales service, image files, and so on.

(2) information timeliness and accuracy. Whether the enterprise network or external networks, information updates increasingly fast and enterprises of information more and more output, and showed a rapid growth trend, enterprises need is a powerful, scalable, flexible content management technologies to meet the information constantly updated, maintained, Then how to guarantee the accuracy of the information and authenticity will become increasingly more important.

(3) internal and external enterprise network reunification of the growth in demand. With enterprises of the information, intranet and extranet information exchange between the more and more outstanding content management systems within the enterprise, do well to the information collection and reuse and the use of value-added information, extranet, more important is truly interactive and collaborative content.

Abroad content management software developed by the major manufacturers, including Vignette, Interwoven. BroadVision, Openmarket, ATG, Allaire, Documentum, tsocks. These companies CM products and solutions highly professional, mostly based on J2EE and other platforms, a feature-rich, mainly for enterprise-class users, CM market is the main manufacturers. Some even narrower professional firms to provide content management needs of a particular stage of the function, If Verity provides knowledge retrieval, Micromedia platform for content creation, Akamai Inkitomi provide content and distribution management technology. In contrast to this, Microsoft, IBM, Companies such as Oracle to provide a common platform CM solution. But the current CM market is still flawed in many ways, including :

In this new market, it is very difficult to find a CMS to meet all the needs of users.

Some CMS was purely an information dissemination tool to, yet as to the collection and reuse let alone knowledge management concept at most only a group of software tools for building it.

All products visualization link is extremely poor, and only a few manufacturers to provide visualization software, Such software is not interactive and can not be used as a management tool.

CMS may include what?

Hidden content management system (CMS), are basic idea is the separation of content management and design. Pages stored in the template design, and content stored in the database or an independent document. When a user requests the page, the formation of a joint standard HTML pages.

A content management system usually has the following elements :

Document templates

Scripting language, or XML

Database Integration

The contents include objects from the pages of embedded control special markings. These markings for a content management system is usually only. These systems usually have the right to operate more complex language support, such as Python, Perl, or Java.

Content management system on site management and the creation of good editors. This is the biggest benefit to the use of templates and common design elements to ensure that the entire site coordination. The author only in their documents using a small amount of template code, and then can concentrate our energy on the design of the above content. To change the appearance of web sites, but only a modification of templates administrator rather than a separate page.

Content management system also simplifies the supply of website content and content management responsibilities entrusted. Many content management systems to allow for different levels given different levels of access permissions. This makes the operating system they need not study the competence level, simple browser interface can be completed.

Other properties, such as : search engine, calendar, Web mail, etc. will be built into the CMS content management system, or allow third-party plug-in the form of integration come.

How to develop CMS

Content management system is a very broad concept : from the commercial news portal system to the individual can be called Weblog publishing system.

Framework type : itself does not contain any application to fruition, but the underlying framework, specific application needs some secondary development, such as Cocoon, Vignette;

Application : one is geared to specific types of application implementation, has covered the news / commentary management, polling, forums, WIKI, and other subsystems. For example : postNuke xoops;

But in any case, the issuance of system selection, first understand their actual demand is the most important : Under the existing system to their own needs up hard copy is extremely undesirable. Visited, powers and functions to control demand. Each module has its own function and more clear after 1:00, go online and see if a similar realization : You will find every aspect of the present, have achieved more mature, but also constantly improve and develop, If no : You too special needs, or can try to break down into smaller system combinations.

Content management system to be separated into the following areas : priority at all levels of the different needs

A back office management subsystem (management priorities : content management) : News recording system, BBS forum subsystem, The full text retrieval subsystem for different system managers to facilitate the recording : WYSIWYG editing interface management, a clear business logic : the competence of the various subsystems control mechanisms;

2, Portal System (performance priority : Template Management) : Most of the final output pages : Home, – channel / feature pages, news pages of details of the general background of various subsystems various combinations of modules, This release combinational logic is very rich, Portal system is responsible for the above background subsystem performance of the portfolio management;

3, the future release (efficiency priority : dissemination and management) : Looking to the end-user cache release, Search engines spider and the URL design …

Content management and performance of the separation : Many sets of the CMS system is not put background various subsystems and left Portal design, Portal appeared in the template layer performance management and news content management subsystem logic mixed together, BBS and even the management, and other subsystems are coupled very high, the whole system will become very cumbersome. But such systems bundled subsystems of death, if the background of the module is unlikely to change. But if the background of the various subsystems content management logic and prospects of the performance / publication after the separation, Portal and background between the various subsystems is the data transmission : Portal only decision background data subsystem choice and performance and the background of the various subsystems are very easy unplug.

Content management and data distribution Isolation : Portal needs to design the system to be Cache (Cache Friendly) Design : CMS background of the management and dissemination mechanisms, not paying too much attention to itself, “efficiency”, As long as the final pages of output design Cacheable. efficiency through more specialized front-end caching server solutions.

Moreover, in addition to facing the ultimate browser users, Attention should also be paid to-oriented search engine friendly (Search engine Friendly) URL Design : URL REWRITE PATH_INFO shift or on the parameters make dynamic analysis of the chain’s website then (URI) form more like static directory structure to facilitate site content search engines are included;

What are all the CMS providers

Vignette. Austin, TX Vignette Corporation, the website content management system leaders, announced today in the middle floor of funds it made 140 million dollars, as Austin software companies based on the largest private equity investment, Vignette also made in Austin as the fastest-growing Internet software company. Vignette company, as the worldwide web content applications leader, of the company have proposed solutions — on the Internet to establish a very successful business. Vignette’s flagship product is StoryServer 3. It allows companies to the application software (such as online publishing, knowledge management and e-business complex system) as a basis for establishing, Management and distribution services, and ultimately accelerate and enhance customer loyalty and staying power. More than 75 leading companies, including Ziff- Davis’ ZDNet. First Chicago NBD, Bay Networks and CNET. use StoryServer 3, a daily 25 million homepages. StoryServer3 received five industry awards UPSIDE magazine, including “network based organizations most dynamic private companies.” The series is a 2.7 V to 5.5 application software designed to for gateway B2C and B2B market demand for content management. 2.7 V to 5.5 series of highly customized capabilities and a wide range of functions, including content and template development, personalized customization and released. However, the majority of function there is a need to develop.

Documentum. Documentum document management is a long-term solution providers. With its 4i Web Content Management (WCM) versions, the company has effectively entered the CM arena, It provides a solution to support with online content and dynamic e-business application software. For large and medium-sized organizations, it is also a sound scalable Web content management solution.

Eprise. Eprise the Participant Server 2.6.6 is the company content management products to its business and large. com provides business application software, including the Internet, corporate intranets and public websites. The product can promote as adding, modifying, and the global issue. Participant Server components include the main elements, operation centers, Sharing center and content distribution Boards. Instructions and products for creating Web-based interface, content distribution components suitable for processing transactions content distribution. A single Web-based administrative interface is a plus because administration can be distribut ed across the organization. a single Web-based management interface is added , as the management within the organization can be distributed.

Interwoven. Interwoven TeamSite 4.5 is the focus of the horizontal network Station content management solution it to the Fortune 500 and Global 2,000 listed companies with enterprise-wide Web content management. TeamSite and composition of the management capabilities through the desktop and Java-based interfaces, This desktop interface and as part of the operating system there. Users can through Windows Explorer to drag and drop content repository.

Xpedio. Xpedio CMS 4.0 is the world’s 2,000 B2B and B2C companies with solutions The program, it has no technical users with easy to use web site building capacity. The products in the enterprise intranet and external Internet and e-commerce website for the content of the rapid development and management. In the management and dissemination of the contents, it is a powerful solution, which provides distributed management capabilities with the creative tools, security, flexibility and Release fully browser-based interface.

Ncompass. NCompass Labs in April 2001 through the establishment of Microsoft, It is now a subsidiary of Microsoft. Resolution 310 is Ncompass browser, web content management solutions as the foundation, at the end of 2001. it as a Microsoft product (known as Microsoft Content Management Server) released again.

Open Market. Open Market’s Content Server 3.1 is J 2EE compatible content management solution It Margaret Chang sick mind followers seize the partridge inquire lined O pen Market harmonic content server as promoting content for Heart of e-business application software products, which dealt with visitors, clients and the interaction between the partners. The products for the management and organization of the network interface, include a personalized engine for the release of the server software.

BroadVision. BroadVision include the application of methods for content management, main objective is B2B, B2C and B2C market. BroadVision to use software packages to the sale of products, such as incidental to the sale of commercial and commercial cooperation. market and employee self-service. Content management solutions are sold independently.

FileNET. FileNET document management market is the traditional leader, It now concentrate on the production of e-business application software Panagon production lines. Its web content management suite includes Panagon content service (PCS), Published Panagon network (PWP), Panagon Network Services (PWS) and Panagon electronic processes. FileNET Boards mainly oriented to the financial, insurance, government, telecommunications, public utilities and manufacturing sectors. FileNET of its web content management suite positioned on the full content management solution as it runs through the life cycle, from the approval of the creation, publication and distribution. However, in its current version, in the core Web content management functionality needs major development If personalized and dynamic content expression.

Megellan. July 2000. Gauss Interprise and software developers Magellan merger Its main marketing content management series Versatile Internet Platform (VI P). VIP position in enterprise management, site content and portal platform. For centralized environment, a series of products meet the needs of the basic functions, including the web-based management, a single input and a large number of third-party manufacturers to provide basic library services, Distributed content and for the creation of the template design tool.

InStranet. InStranet, founded in 1999, is headquartered in New York, Paris and the European headquarters. ’s Flagship product is InStranet 2000 1.5 It is a browser and a Java-based Web content management solution. Product Highlights in the B2B and employees working environment, Internet to the internal and external Internet to business documents and content. InStranet 2000 in J2EE 1.5 compatible application server, in BEA WebLogic. IBM WebSphere and iPlanet application server tests.

Mediasurface. Mediasurface has its headquarters in London, Its offices in the United States in New York and Frances Branch. Companies to provide content management software for intranet and external Internet. The core product is Mediasurface 3.5, which aimed at vertical markets, including financial services, government, education, health, IT services, media, publishing and broadcasting, retail and consumer services.

Six Open Systems. Six Offene Systeme GmbH in the United States known as the Six Open Systems (Six), in 1991, set up in Germany. Six in Germany, an important consumer group, which was 4.0 products Six CMS to enter the United States market. The product is from the inside to outside to browser-based solutions, It used to help the media and publishers to simplify the design and content management and portal website, the Internet, Internal Internet design.

Starbase. Starbase product marketing cooperation, the product of the e-commerce application software to create, management code and content. February 2001. Starbase acquisition of worldweb.net and its products Expressroom I 2006-07, and based on Java and XML Web content management solution. Starbase Expressroom I/O is being added to the code and content management solution Collaboration package.

China used more of the Active Context, turbocms, cms4i. But these are purely commercial nature of the system, high prices, the general Station at individuals, proposals selected some foreign celebrities revenue systems such as Mambo, Drupal, Tikiwiki. PhpNuke, PostNuke, Xoops, Tikipro. But these are all based on the php + mysql, as we all know, php and mysql is free? ^__^