1. IT2032PA
Content Management
System (CMS)
Nitec in Social Media & Web Technology

2. Proprietary & Open Source CMS
In this chapter, you will learn:
o Identify a few notable proprietary list of CMS
o Identify a few notable open source list of CMS
o Identify the appropriate CMS in accordance to
user specifications

3. Proprietary CMS
Benefits:
o Support
• you will have access to a team who knows the CMS code
inside and out
o Setup
• Hire a 3rd party company offering the CMS setup

4. Proprietary CMS
Drawbacks:
o Licensing Fees
• pay a licensing fee or at least setup fee
o Tied to proprietary developer
• rely on the company to create upgrades and new features
o Developer feeds
• support is readily available but with a price

5. Popular Proprietary CMS
Adobe® CQ
o foundation of the Adobe Web Experience
Management (WEM) solution
o provides digital marketers with easy-to-use web-
based applications
o provides integration with of Adobe Digital
Marketing Suite

6. Popular Proprietary CMS
Microsoft SharePoint
o typically associated with web and doc mgt systems
o much broader platform of web technologies,
o capable of being configured to suit a wide range of
solution areas
o designed as a central application platform for
common enterprise web requirements

7. Popular Proprietary CMS
IBM Enterprise Content Management
o It strength lies on:
• Advanced case • Defensible disposal,
management, • Document management,
• Document imaging and • eDiscovery,
capture, • Enterprise report
• Social content management,
management, • Enterprise search,
• Content Analytics, • Records and retention
management
• Information lifecycle
governance,
• Archiving Classification,

8. Open Source CMS
The most popular Open Source CMS run on
PHP (a scripting language well-suit for web
development that can be imbedded into HTML)
Open source (OS) programs can be used by
anyone for any purpose and do not require you
to purchase a license

9. Open Source CMS
Benefits
o Cheaper;
o No license fees,
o No fees for upgrades,
o No contracts to sign
o No long-term commitments.

10. Open Source CMS
Benefits
o Best benefit: They practically work "right out of the
box."
o Countless free modules, plugins, and
complimentary tools
o Countless free themes (skins)
o simple to optimize for search engines

11. Popular Open Source CMS
Drupal
A free and open-source content management system
(CMS) and content management framework (CMF)
o used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all
websites worldwide
o used for knowledge management and business
collaboration
o Org that uses Drupal
• AT&T, McDonald's, Duke and Standford Universities,
Symantic, Fiju, Linux Foundation

12. Popular Open Source CMS
Joomla!
A free and open source content management framework
(CMF) for publishing content on the WWW and intranets
o Written in PHP
o uses object-oriented programming (OOP)
techniques
o stores data in a MySQL
o Org that uses Drupal
• AT&T, McDonald's, Duke and Standford Universities,
Symantic, Fiju, Linux Foundation

13. Popular Open Source CMS
Joomla!
A free and open source content management framework
(CMF) for publishing content on the WWW and intranets
o Written in PHP
o uses object-oriented programming (OOP)
techniques
o stores data in a MySQL
o Org that uses Joomla!
• Olympus, Porsche, Sprint and Vodafone

14. Popular Open Source CMS
Joomla!
o Includes features such as:
o page caching,
o RSS feeds,
o printable versions of pages,
o news flashes,
o blogs,
o polls,
o search,
o support for language internationalization

15. Popular Open Source CMS
WordPress
A free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic
CMS based on PHP and MySQL.
o features such as plug-in architecture and a
template system
o most popular CMS in use for personal websites,
blogs, small businesses
o Companies that use WordPress :
• About.com, Ford, People Magazine, Sony, CNN, eBay,
Wired, and even Yahoo!

16. Popular Open Source CMS
TYPO3
is suitable for enterprise websites and for intranets.
o can be extended through extra ready-made
modules
o design of is template-based
o webmaster can create templates using TypoScript.

17. CMS Consideration
1. Core functionality
o Test the system for usability
2. The HTML Editor
o is the interface through which content is added
and amended.
o does not give content providers control over the
appearance
o editor should be able to handle external assets
• images and downloadable files

18. CMS Consideration
3. Managing assets
o Look for CMS that provides basic image editing
tools (cropping, resizing and rotating)
o Consider on how it deals with attachment and
downloading of files
4. Search
o Freshness | Thoroughness | Speed | Scope,
Ranking | Customization

19. CMS Consideration
5. Customization
o content’s presentation should not be dictated by
technology
o Flexibility makes a CMS stand out
6. User interaction
o functionality such as chat, forums, comments and
ratings

20. CMS Consideration
7. Roles and permissions
o content’s presentation should not be dictated by
technology
o Flexibility makes a CMS stand out
8. Versioning
o Being able to revert to a previous version of a
page page allows you to quickly recover is
something went wrong.

21. CMS Consideration
9. Multiple website support
o having the flexibility to run multiple websites is
important
10.Multilingual support
o ability to add multiple languages