Enterprise content management

Web content management system

Component Content Management Systems (CCMS)

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.

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 of HTML or the uploading of files.

You can manage content at a granular level (component) rather than at the document level. Each component represents a single topic, concept or asset (e.g., image, table, product description). Each component has its own life cycle (owner, version, approval, use) and can be tracked individually or as part of an assembly. CCM can be a separate system or be a functionality of another content management system type.