Content Management System

Content Management Systems are software systems aiming at helping people to create and maintain dynamically web sites. They are generally "ready-to-go" softwares that end-users can deploy without coding. They have many functionnalities and specific caracteristics :

• Dynamic content management (based on flat files or databases)
• User management (with access policies)
• Expandibility (by adding modules, plugins, templates, etc)
• Sometimes specific functions like publishing workflows, version control, statistics...

They are now used for personal purpose or for commercial activities (in that case, they are often called Entreprise Content Management).