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Content Management

Process of managing the contents through its lifecycle -from creation, review, storage and publish to expiration. Here the content could be of plain text or any file types (such as doc, jpg etc.) which needs to be managed.

Mostly, the content will exist as an independent component from the presentation.

Why Content Management

Before we step into further, we need to understand why we need content management. There are many but I’m taking only the very basic reason for the need of Content Management.

In traditional applications, developers will create user interfaces and business users will provide the contents. But the problem is that Business users can not add or edit their contents directly as they are integrated with user interface. This will require them to have technical knowledge to edit their contents. Hence the contents will be provided to developers and they will put it on the pages for publishing.

There is a complete dependency over content publishing. Due to this process, there will also be a delay in content updates on the websites.

In CM,  since the contents are not integrated with user interface, Business users can directly add the contents without having much technical skills. Also they can publish their contents directly for approval. So the dependency can be avoided and content updates also can be faster.

The advantage of content management is each action its lifecycle can be performed by one or more users, which are independent from each other.

Content Management is useful,

1) If you are changing the website content frequently

2) If you need a workflow process for approvals

3) If you need to schedule a content to publish/archive/expire

4) If you need to get your older version of contents.

Basic Roles

The below are the basic roles of CM process. These can be classified to further according to business requirements like US Content Creator, UK Content Creator.