A Content Management System (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. In brief, we can say content management system for the creation, modification, archiving and removal of information resources from an organized repository, typically called database. Includes tools for content creating and publishing, format management, revision control, indexing, search and retrieval.

Content Management system provides the following Advantages to business:

:: It helps to organize and facilitate collaborative content creation
:: Content Management and administration
:: Content publishing
:: Consistent Corporate branding
:: Streamlined centralized management
:: Adding New Features

Why content management system?

In today's, Internet scenario customers are demanding more access, to information and business processes and they expect it now. Traditional web technologies inhibit this intimacy. They distance business owners from web site content because their use depends upon technical expertise. They generate web sites with limited capabilities that are costly to deploy and maintain. Content management system gives control of the content to the business experts rather than technical experts. It ensures fast, consistent, accurate and efficient publication of your intellectual assets and business processes on the web and it helps management to manage workflow and maintain quality control by allowing an overall administrator of the system to set roles and permissions for authors, editors and publishers, as a result of it company's website is focused on the achievement of business objectives, rather than being driven by technical issues, by putting control of content in to the hands of its business experts. Content management system will not be appropriate for everybody. Since, it have the benefit of allowing non-technical users to maintain a website very easily and provide powerful tools for managing content and the web publishing process. Although the initial outlay may be higher than for building your website with flat HTML pages, in the long run a content management system could prove highly cost effective. If you are getting a new website built or redeveloping an existing one and your site needs updating regularly by users without the relevant technical skills, is large or complex, then a content management system is worth considering.