Optimization of internet-project creation and management system

Sergey Kudin

Introduction

     A Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content management. This includes computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often be used as archival as well. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies use a CMS file share with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability. As shown below, many Content Management Systems include a feature for Web Content, and some have a feature for a "workflow process."
     "Workflow" is the idea of moving an electronic document along for either approval, or for adding content. Some Content Management Systems will easily facilitate this process with email notification, and automated routing. This is ideally a collaborative creation of documents. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources.
     Content management systems take the following forms:
          - a web content management system is software for web site management - which is often what is implicitly meant by this term
          - the work of a newspaper editorial staff organization
          - a workflow for article publication
          - a document management system
          - a single source content management system - where content is stored in chunks within a relational database.

CMS type

     - Web content management system (WCMS)
     - Document Management System (DMS)
     - Distributed Resource Management Systems (DRMS)

Web content management

     A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites.
     Web content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features:
          - Import and creation of documents and multimedia material
          - Identification of all key users and their content management roles
          - The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
          - Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
          - The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
          - 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.
          - Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default color, fonts, or layout.

Document Management System

     A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has some overlap with the concepts of Content Management Systems and is often viewed as a component of Enterprise Content Management Systems and related to Digital Asset Management, Document imaging, Workflow systems and Records Management systems.

Distributed Resource Management Systems

     A job scheduler is an enterprise software application that is in charge of unattended background executions, commonly known for historical reasons as batch processing. They may also be known as Distributed Resource Management Systems (DRMS) or Distributed Resource Managers (DRM). Today's job schedulers typically provide a graphical user interface and a single point of control for definition and monitoring of background executions in a distributed network of computers. Increasingly job schedulers are required to orchestrate the integration of real-time business activities with traditional background IT processing, across different operating system platforms and business application environments.

Summary

     The term Content Management System was originally used for website publishing management systems. Early content management systems were developed internally at organizations which were doing a lot of web publishing, such as on-line magazines, newspapers, and corporate newsletters.
     As markets evolved, the scope of products promoted as content management systems greatly broadened, fragmenting the meaning of the term.

Literature

     1) Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/
     2) Open Source Systems http://www.opensourcecms.com/
     3) The Content Management Comparison Tool http://www.cmsmatrix.org/