Categories of Content Management Products
Content Management
Products are software products that are used to manage website content.
Each of the Content Management Product has unique features that are specific
to a particular vendor. There are many powerful Content Management Products
available in the market now-a-days as more and more vendors are getting
into the content management industry. These Content Management Products
are generally categorized based on the licensing fees at the entry level
of the product. The categories of the Content Management Products include
enterprise platforms, upper tier, mid market, open source, and low-priced.
Let us now give a brief description of each category and a list of few
products under each category.
The enterprise
platforms are large scale platforms that are typically marketed in multidimensional
suites which span many function points. The Content Management Products
under this platform mostly do not suit the straight forward web content
management system projects. The entry level licensing fee for the Content
Management Products under this category is about US $ 200K to 250K. Some
of the most popular Content Management Products under this category include
Stellent - Universal Content Management, Vignette - V7 Content Management
Suite, Documentum (EMC) - Web Publisher 5.2, FileNET - P8 WCM, and Interwoven
- TeamSite 6.1.
Stellent
Universal Content Management which comes under the enterprise platform
category offers a flexible, robust and scalable content management solution
that allows employees, customers and partners to collaborate, contribute,
and access business content anywhere worldwide. In addition, Stellent
Universal Content Management enables organizations to fully maximize the
value of their information and intellectual assets by bringing content,
such as spreadsheets, contracts, marketing materials, CAD drawings, digital
assets, records, and catalogs to the web where it can be efficiently managed.
Vignette V7 Content Management Suite is another enterprise category of
content management system which eases and automates the processes for
creating, managing and publishing content for the web, giving business
users extended control over the management of their web content. In addition,
Vignette V7 Content Management Suite enables organizations that need to
simplify the management of content to websites and portals, to cost-effectively
increase the value of their interactions with customers, partners, suppliers,
and employees.
The next
category is the upper tier category. The Content Management Products under
this category are usually targeted at large departments and corporations.
In addition, the Content Management Products under this category tend
to focus more narrowly on web content management. The licensing fee for
most of the Content Management Product implementations ranges from US
$ 125K to 175K. Some of the most popular Content Management Products under
this category include Percussion - Rhythmyx 5, FatWire - Content Server
5.5, Microsoft - Content Management Server 2002, Mediasurface - Mediasurface
5.0, OpenText - Livelink Web Content Management Server, Day - Communiqué
3.5.4, and Tridion - R5 V5.1.
The next
category is the mid-market category. The Content Management Products under
this category are usually targeted at mid-market firms or enterprise departments.
The licensing fee of the Content Management Products under this category
ranges from US $ 40K to 100K. The Content Management Products under this
category usually trade off ease-of-implementation for less customizability.
Some of the most popular Content Management Products under this category
include Serena - (Merant) Collage 4.5, RedDot Solutions - RedDot 6.0,
Synkron A/S - Synkron.web, Ingeniux - Content Management System 4.0, PaperThin
- CommonSpot Content Server 4.0, Roxen - Roxen CMS 3.4, and Refresh Software
- Core Content Management.
The next
category is the open source category. The Content Management Product packages
under this category are available under the open-source licensing terms.
Some of the most popular Content Management Products under this category
include Zope - Content Management Framework / Plone, Midgard Project -
Midgard 1.6, OpenCms - OpenCms, Typo3 - Typo3, Apache Project - Cocoon
Framework, Bricolage - Bricolage, Mambo - Mambo Server, and TikiWiki -
Tiki
The final
category is the low-priced category. The Content Management Products under
this category are usually targeted at relatively straight forward content
management system requirements. The licensing fee of the Content Management
Products under this category ranges from US $ 5000 to 25000. Some of the
most popular Content Management Products under this category include Fog
Creek Software - CityDesk, Ektron - MS100/200/300/400, Macromedia - Web
Publishing System, GlobalSCAPE - PureCMS V 3.0, and Sitecore - Sitecore
Content Manager.
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