A content management system (CMS) such as a document management system (DMS) is a computer application used to manage workflow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of content.
CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include binary files, image, audio, video, office documents, and Web content. These concepts represent integrated and interdependent layers. There are various nomenclatures known in this area: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management and so on. The bottom line for these systems is managing content and publishing, with a workflow if required.
Main categories of CMS
Enterprise CMS (ECM): An enterprise content management (ECM) system is concerned with content, documents, details and records related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose is to manage the organization's unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location
Web CMS (WCM): A 'web content management' (WCM) system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge.
Document management system (DMS): A document management system (DMS) is used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management (ECM) systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems and records management systems.
Functions of CMS
CMS commonly provide metadata, Integration, Capture, Indexing, Storage, Retrieval, Distribution, Security, Workflow, Collaboration, Versioning and Publishing capabilities.
What we Offer
Although the CMS is originally designed to make process of publishing the content simple, the configuration needed to develop and customize the CMS is relatively difficult and requires technical experts. Customizing CMS needs a good understanding of the content that is going to be published, the website design standards, and the type of users expected to visit it. Also, there is a need to know how to secure the content of the website based on the type of user trying to edit it. Each one of these technicalities can risk the CMS and cause it to fail delivering its goals.
Attune Infocom offers a full rank of services for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems and platform implementation. It will allow businesses to reduce the costs and increase operational efficiency by exercising control over their business processes. Attune Infocom provides ready to use solutions and platform customization and integration of CMS systems with enterprise applications, including all types of up-gradation. Attune Infocom is capable of merging services from different CMS vendors to deliver the solutions tailored to your business needs.
The project on CMS integration may require development connectors to existing applications, Plug-ins, additional features development, legacy systems re engineering and other specific solutions, which can be successfully developed by Attune Infocom CMS specialists.
Portal
Portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. It provides a secure single access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface, and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets. One hallmark of enterprise portals is the de-centralized content contribution and content management, which keeps the information always updated.
Apart from the standard search engine feature, portals offer other services such as CMS, collaboration, blog, forum, chat, e-mail, news, stock prices, information, and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether.
Portal Features
Single Sign-On (SSO) — enterprise portals can provide single point of entry capabilities between their users and various other systems. This requires a user to authenticate only once. Access control lists manage the mapping between portal content and services over the portal user base.
Integration — the connection of functions and data from multiple systems into new components/portlets/web parts.
Federation — the integration of content provided by other portals, typically through the use of WSRP or similar technologies.
Personalization — Users can customize the look and feel of their environment. Customers can edit and design their own web sites which are full of their own personality and own style; they can also choose the specific content and services they prefer. Also refers to the ability to prioritize most appropriate content based on attributes of the user and metadata of the available content.
Permissioning — the ability for portal administrators to limit specific types of content and services users have access to. For example, a company's proprietary information can be entitled for only company employee access.
