This document provides an overview of web content management systems (CMS). It defines what a CMS is and discusses key terms. It outlines common CMS requirements and scenarios they are used in. Finally, it briefly profiles different CMS vendors and products at various levels from entry to enterprise, as well as pricing models. The overall aim is to help understand which CMS may be best suited for different needs.

1. Web Content Management Systems SBTUG 29 September 2010 Craig Bailey www.craigbailey.net

2. Aims Ask the question: Which CMS is best for me? Understand the main concepts See a range of CMS options Gain an understanding of what to look for in your business...

3. Agenda Overview of terms Understanding requirements Common tools/vendors/products User scenarios/Support models 8mini-sessions Panel of experts

4. What is a CMS? Web Content Management System Create/manage HTML & images Authoring tools Templates for presentation “The software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease.” (Wikipedia)

5. Terms Content Content Management Systems (CMS) Web Content Management (WCM) Document Management Records Management Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

6. Terms: Content Text Images, Video, Audio Tasks Forum, blog, wiki posts Forms Documents Records Polls, Surveys, Competitions, Ads, ...

7. Requirements Structured Data Centralised publishing Auditing / Version control Workflow & Business Process Management Taxonomy & Search Collaboration Plus a million others...

8. Scenarios Simple sites Web Intranet Extranet Portals Complex sites LOB & Integration

9. Support models Open source Reseller Local support Consultative

10. Pricing Freemium (there’s less of them now...) Hosted On site development Product Services Finance packaging

11. Vendors & Products Vendors (there’s a few...) Open source vs Closed Source Entry / Mid / Enterprise level Following image credits: James Robertson – Step Two – slideshare

16. Entry level

17. Mid level

18. Enterprise

19. Tonight Tonight we’re covering the spectrum ASP.NET and PHP Open Source and Proprietary Simple through to Enterprise

20. Resources ECM, WCM (Wikipedia) CMS Wire Real Story Group (CMS Watch) CMS Matrix CMS Critic Open Source CMS

21. Questions? Craig Bailey www.craigbailey.net craig@craigbailey.net www.twitter.com/craigbailey