Introduction :

A Content Management System is a Web application that makes content authoring and delivery easy. It enables users to quickly and efficiently build, deploy, and maintain content-rich web sites by streamlining the web publishing process.

Content Management Systems can reduce the need for costly site maintenance and thus empower users to manage their own content.

Most systems use a database to store content, metadata, and/or artifacts that might be needed by the system. Content is frequently, but not universally, stored as XML, to facilitate reuse and enable flexible presentation options.

CMS supports:

• 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
• The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content
• The ability to capture content