There are many products and solutions available today that claim to be a Content Management System and /or or a Web Content Management System, so it is suggested the following definition – from a neutral source – to be used to assist in assessing the different supplier claims.

What is Content Management - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion.[1] CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents, and Web content. A CMS may support the following features:

·      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 workflow tasks for collaborative creation, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content (For example, a content creator submits a story, which is published only after the copy editor revises it and the editor-in-chief approves it.);

·      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.);

·      Separation of content's semantic layer from its layout (For example, the CMS may automatically set the colour, fonts, or emphasis of text.

[1] A Web content management system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.

SharePoint Content Management System from Pygmalion
Pygmalion provides a CMS (Content Management System) that offers the core features listed in the Wikipedia definition stated above, plus several others. It provides content management for computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents, and Web content, meaning it can be classified both as a Content Management System and a Web Content Management System. The CMS can be used for Intranets, Extranets or Internets.

Pygmalion's Content Management System utilises Microsoft SharePoint technologies, a powerful, robust and well supported platform.

Based on the extensive use of templates and master pages, with the familiar Windows interfaces, enabling web sites to be easily customised, updated and maintained by non-technical personnel.

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