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As the traffic of web users has surged in the last few years, there has been a corresponding rise in the quantity of content —text documents, web pages, images and so on. Therefore it’s time to manage the content in the right manner, lest it becomes complex and difficult to manage.

Enter content management system (CMS)—a web application—which is widely used for the search engine websites and almost all the companies who provide data on the internet.

Prajakta Mahajan, chief technology manager, Encodex Technologies India says, “Content is being produced in a multitude of formats such as images, text documents, web pages, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, drawings, e-mail, video and multimedia. This explosion of structured and unstructured content can be complex and difficult to manage. Therefore, it has given rise for the need of content management.”

At a basic level, all informations like website content, data, audio and video files, photos, podcasts about industries, sector, subject, pertaining to companies are stored in the database of the CMS.

Diwakar Nigam, managing director, Newgen Software Technologies says, “CMS is a system where all kinds of content are stored and organised in such a manner that it is easily accessible . The content management system has all the capabilities to search and store contents.”

Providing exact information to the internet user in a short time is not a small task. So is its storage and authoring. However, various CMS products available in the market make the task quite easy.

“There are 1,000-plus products for content management system available in the market, either as open source or licensed software,” says Minesh Doshi, director, Silver Touch Technologies. “Generally, open source content management systems are preferred as they reduce the cost drastically,” he adds.

Some of the proprietary CMS products in the market include Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (.Net, SQL Server 2005); Vignette Content Management (Java, Oracle Database, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2); Stellent (Java, IDocScript, XML, Oracle, SQL server); IBM Workplace Web Content Management (J2EE or Lotus Domino Oracle, Microsoft SQL server, IBM DB2, Lotus Domino). And some of the open source CMS products are Rainbow (.Net, SQL server 2005); DNN (.Net, SQL Server 2005); PHP-Nuke (PHP MySQL) and Manbo (PHP MySQL).