Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems are used to create, edit, administrate and publish website content.

Gartner classifies CMS into 4 categories: Enterprise, Web, Shared and E-buisiness Transactional.

CMS Processes are the effective management of the content by combining rules, process and workflows in a way that can successfully manage website content.

• Enterprise CMS
• Web CMS
• E-business Transactional
• Shared Content

This would include corporate portal, document management, media asset management, retrieval, software configuration management, and product data management products.

Web CMS

Including web publishing and document management products.

E-business Transactional

Including mainly commerce server products.

Shared Content

Including business partner and supply chain collaborative content that isn’t transactional.

Ability to Execute: This criteria measures an organization’s success at selling and supporting both its ECM products and services from a global perspective.

Completeness of Vision: This criteria deals with a company’s potential and helps to separate the vendors who are focused solely on the short-term from the vendors who have a more long-term view of the ECM market.

Based on these criteria, the four quadrants and the companies therein:

Leaders

• IBM (FileNet)
• EMC Documentum
• Open Text
• Oracle (Stellent)

Visionaries

• Interwoven
• Vignette
• Xerox
• Microsoft
• Day Software
• Xythos

Challengers

• Hyland Software

Niche Players

• Tower Software
• SAP
• Objective
• EVER TEAM
• Cimage
• SunGard Data Systems

Links

• Web Content Management Software
• Website Content Management Software