Managing content as your company grows
Deb Shinder
Published: 19 Oct 2005 15:15 BST
...document management, with Web content management, record management/archiving and retention following closely.
Once you know what you want to manage, you’re better prepared to evaluate the many content management systems that are available.
Content management options
The sheer number of CMS solutions on the market can be overwhelming. Here are a few examples:
Microsoft’s Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS) is an enterprise Web content management system that runs on Windows 2000 Server and integrates with other Microsoft products such as their Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, Application Center and SharePoint Portal Server. Content can be stored on a Microsoft SQL server, and Word can be used for authoring and publishing content.
Many other vendors, such as Vignette and RedDot, offer both Web content managers and enterprise CMS solutions (ECM) that allow you to centralize and share your documents and automate and manage business processes. Some vendors focus on specific industries and markets. Hummingbird Ltd, which acquired RedDot in June 2005, is a major provider of enterprise CMS with solutions specifically targeted at the legal, government and financial services sectors and offers a suite of products that work together to provide management of email, correspondence, contracts, Web content and content lifecycle, as well as compliance solutions.
There are open source CMS solutions, too. OSCOM is an international organization that's devoted to developing standards and promoting open source content management solutions.
Content management software isn’t confined to the desktop. IBM’s DB2 Content Manager runs on their mid-range iSeries and mainframe zSeries computers.
To keep up with content management trends and new solutions, check out CMS Watch. In addition to reports on different aspects of CMS/ECM technologies and vendors, their site includes a very helping section on building a business case for implementing content management in your organization.
Choosing a content management solution
Once you’ve determined your content management needs, you can better evaluate different options in terms of cost, ease of deployment, usability, and scalability. Since CMS solutions are ...
Previous
Did you find this article useful?
188 out of 354 people found this useful
Digg
Slashdot
Del.ici.ous
Stumble
Reddit
