Content Management System (CMS) Solution

What is a Content Management System, or CMS?
A content management system is quite simply - a system that manages content. When talking about CMS in terms of website or web portal, this signifies that the administrator or webmaster can manage content on their website. There is no need for a technical programmer or developer to do content changes. Webmaster can do that on its own.

To fully understand what it is a CMS does, we have to first define
a) what it is we are referring to when we talk about content
b) what it is we understand under its management and
c) what do we mean by a system.

What is Content?
Content is in essence, any type or 'unit' of digital information. It can be text, images, graphics, video, sound, documents, records etc - or in other words - anything that is likely to be managed in an electronic format.

What is Content Management?
Content Management is effectively the management of the content described above, by combining rules, process and/or workflows in such a way that its electronic storage is deemed to be 'managed' rather than 'un-managed'. This would define steps, process and system to do content management.

In brief, CMS (content management system) is a system or a tool or a combination of tools that facilitate the efficient and effective production of the desired 'output' using the managed content. A CMS is a tool that enables even a non-technical staff to create, add, edit, manage and publish a variety of content (such as text, graphics, video, documents etc), while maintaining data being stored centrally and following a set of rules, process and workflows that checks validity of the content.