BsoftIndia Technologies Enterprise CMS: These high-powered software packages are usually comprehensive
solutions, delivering effective content management for use on
an enterprise, or corporate level.
They are designed to help a corporation become more efficient
and cost-effective, and increase accuracy and functionality, while
decreasing human error and customer response times. They can integrate corporate functions such as shipping and delivery
systems, invoicing, employee and human resource issues, customer
relations, and document management and transactional (sales) systems. Enterprise CMSs bring data management down to the user level
so many users can add their individual piece to a very large integrated
pie. Software companies deploying these complex systems pride
themselves on offering highly customized company-wide solutions,
and the software usually comes with a relatively hefty price tag.
Web CMS/Portals Web CMS packages are mostly created for use on the web. They
can incorporate numerous functions, or have one specific function
they are centered around. They allow users to update portions
of a common Web site or collaborate in a website “community.”
Web CMSs can make a developer’s life easy by bringing functionality
to a website quickly and easily, and allowing a lead developer
to include others in site development and maintenance without
fear of straying from the standards. Open source Web CMS packages
will be the focus of this chapter, in particular the PHP/MySQL
packages. A subset of the Web CMS category is groupware. This
type of package runs over an intranet or over the Internet and
is designed to allow collaboration between users, presumably working
for the same company, working on the same projects. They typically
offer features such as project management, file checking in and
out, calendar systems, email, and internal forums. |