Article On Content Management Systems

Content management systems (CMS) are the systems that enable organizations to manage

their information like business capabilities, products & services, employees information, work related information in an easy and consistent manner. CMS has come a long way in last decade in terms of features and maturity.

CMS provides following benefits:

* Provides easy management of information as compared to having hard copies of information. Users can easily access any information anywhere at anytime.

* Reduces storage and improve information retrieval speed.

* Controls the access of data to different users like public users (outside the company), internal users (like employees, staff).

* Allows large number of users to collaborate on information based activities.

There are large numbers of content management systems that are available both in open source as well as in proprietary category.

Some of the freely available CMS are as follows:

In PHP

* Wordpress

* Joomla

* Drupal

* Mambo

* PHP-Fusion

* PHP-Nuke

* Merlintalk

* MiaCMS

* Midgard CMS

In ASP.NET

* DotNetNuke Community Edition

* Umbraco

* mojoPortal

In Java

* jAPS

* OpenCms

* Liferay

* DSpace

* Fedora

In addition to above there are number of CMS that are available in other languages like Ruby on Rails (Radiant, Typo), Perl (blosxom, Bricolage) etc.

Open source content management systems comparison

There are plenty of CMS systems available and so which one suits your requirements. If you have relatively simple requirements then go for any popular systems like Wordpress or Joomla. If you have more complex requirements, it is recommended to do analysis of different CMS.

Wordpress: This is one of nicest CMS system. It is very easy to install and its up & running in no time. This system should be used if you have two main requirements, blogging and contents.

Joomla: Joomla has little more complex structure than Wordpress but it requires a bit of a learning curve. Joomla is good for developing articles sites but creating other forms of content like directory etc can be a bit tricky.

Drupal: Drupal is certainly a good option for Web 2.0 content and community sites with more complex structure to control. Drupal provides quite a comprehensive process to put down a very detail rule/control but it requires a bit lengthy learning curve.

In last we emphasize that you should review each of these content management systems for your project requirements especially if the project is relatively complex.

by: R Chopra

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