A content management system is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. The term content management system is usually used in its abbreviated form cms.

The cms is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. The content management systems were initially developed internally at content publishing organizations.

CNET spun out its internal development offerings into a separate company called Vignette in 1995. The company started offering the software as a web based content management system, allowing sites to create templates of the presentation of their content on the web.

A consulting company, Pencom Web Works in 1998, introduced the Metaphoria Data Transformation Server, allowing java developers to write applications that would be tied with content and target the content output to different channels. The product failed but the concepts that were introduced by it made their way into most ancient content management systems.

Many companies in the early 2000s began offering weblog software, which brought many of the concepts surrounding content management systems to the masses. Six Apart, with the release of their Movable Type quickly established itself as a leader in this field.

Types of content management systems:

• web content management system or web site content management system is a type of content management system software used for managing websites. The software assists in automating various aspects of web publishing and manages content for distribution on a web server.

• learning content management system or lcms assists in managing the web-based learning content life cycle.

• document imaging systems or dis are also generally considered under the family of general content management.

• enterprise content management or ecm is the software technology that enables organizations to create/capture, manage/secure, store/retain/destroy, publish/distribute, search, personalize, and present/view/print digital content such as pictures/images, text, reports, video, audio, transactional data, catalog, code. The ecm systems primarily focus on the capture, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of digital files for enterprise use and their life-cycle management. The ecm concept is not restricted to web based technologies but includes client/server and host based solutions.

• Transactional content management system assists in managing e-commerce transactions.

• Integrated content management system assists in managing enterprise documents and content.

• Publication management system assists in managing the publications (manuals, books, help, guidelines, references) content life cycle.

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COMMAND LINE FUNCTION

A powerful command line script processor has been introduced to SQL Delta 3.1. The script processor provides the user with a mechanism for controlling SQL Delta by remote control, allowing databases to be compared and changes scripted without any user intervention. The script language is standard XML and provides a variety of commands for configuring and controlling SQL Delta. In addition to the standard comparison and script functions the user can export reports in various formats including HTML format and then have those reports automatically emailed to the appropriate user. Even scripts can be emailed as attachments if a change is detected in the database.

“We have designed the script processor to provide users, especially DBA’s, with the convenience of programmatic style control of SQL Delta without the need to dig out a compiler and build an application. Even so a programmer can very easily create a seamless execution of SQL Delta from within their own application if they desired” Jay Bailey – SQL Development Manager.

Owner Mapping

SQL Delta 3.1 now provides object ownership mapping and now it is possible to perform comparisons between databases with different users and different ownership configurations. The user can map on a user to user basis or a many to one user basis and there is no limit to the number of users that can be mapped.

Other New Features

Improved tools such as “star view” checking to ensure all views that may use “select * ..” are up to date and a qualify names tool for checking to see if stored procedures include qualified names, therefore ensuring the best performance from your server.

Sydney, 10th May 2005 – TASC have released SQL Delta version 3.1, a high performance SQL schema and data comparison tool for analysis and synchronization of databases.

Version 3.1 of SQL Delta offers the following new feature and improvements and is available now http://www.sqldelta.com

Founded in 1991, The Australian Software Company (TASC) is an Information Technology solutions provider developing customer orientated applications. Over the past years we have developed a vast range of software applications.

Our specialty is developing systems based on TASC’s business and systems analysis. The development of these systems is done using our range of components, which have been built, tested and implemented for various clients. These components, plus our quality assured methodologies, enable us to build high quality systems in a timely manner. Typically we develop our software using the Microsoft Windows or NT platforms, although we are able to develop in differing areas especially when relating to Web/Java based systems. We also use a variety of database servers although this is dependent on the client and their available technology.