What is a Content Management System?

A content management system (or CMS) is used to organise and facilitate collaborative digital content creation. Recently, the term has been associated with programs for managing the content of web sites.

Web content management (WCM) is also used to refer to these programs.

The modern content management system is a computerised tool born of less technical sources (address books, encyclopedias, rolodex, etc.).

The idea is to take information and organize it so that it's easily retrievable, updatable, flexible in how it can be reformatted and retransmitted, and searchable.

Any application which manages information could technically be considered a CMS, such as Help Desk software, Address/contact management systems, web blogs, etc.

However, a classic content management system is generally regarded as a framework of tools that are less application or data-specific.

A well-designed CMS should be like a computer: able to be "programmed" with different rules and perform different types of processes and manage different applications and related data.

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