CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS)

CIS 764 Bakor Kamal

Outlines

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.
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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.

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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.

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How much is a CMS?

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

Database Microsoft SQL Server (2000 or 2005) Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 Platform .NET

Name Microsoft Office SharePoint Server IBM Workplace Web Content Management Documentum

J2EE Java

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

Platform
J2EE, Windows J2EE J2EE

Joomla!

OpenCms MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

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Example of a CMS Structure.

Source. WebsiteSource.com http://www.websitesource.com/hosting/mambo-cms.shtml Department of Computing and Information Sciences - Kansas State University

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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 Department of Computing and Information Sciences - Kansas State reduced site maintenance costs11/15/2007 University

CMS vs. Portal

Factor Integration with legacy application. CMS CMS products cannot integrate legacy applications well Portal Integration is an important factor for considering portal such as JBoss Portal Portal products are more complex.

Ease of use

Most of the CMS packages doesnt take more than a few hours to install with a few meaningful customization options. CMS products are less price comparing with portals

Price

Portal products are more expensive than many CMSs and therefore the ROI can be less. Better integration with other business systems

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

Available

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CMS vs. Portal Cont.

Factor Personalization CMS Personalization in CMS is better an more practical because of applying the rolebased personalization Portal Available

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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.

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Demo

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

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

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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_sy stem&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_managem ent_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/CMSorPortal Software/tabid/174/Default.aspx
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Questions

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