Marketing Intelligence – Mission Impossible !!!

The first major project of my career was full of complexities and excitement. There was no proper SRS (Software Requirement Specification), HLD (High Level Design) or LLD (Low Level Design). I am talking about this as theoretically I was expecting all these documents before starting any project. We got some information in bits and pieces [...]

What is JCR?

Content Repository API for Java (JCR) is a specification for a Java platform API for accessing content repositories in a uniform manner. The content repositories are used in content management systems to keep the content data and also the meta-data used in CMS such as versioning meta-data. The specification was developed under the Java Community [...]

Types of CMS

Module-based CMS

Most tasks in a document’s life-cycle are served by CMS modules. Common modules are document creation/editing, transforming and publishing.

Document transformation language-based CMS

Another approach to CMS building with use of open standards. XSLT-based CMS compile ready documents from XML data and XSLT-template. XML Sapiens-based CMS compile a document from the stream of ‘pure’ data, design [...]

CMS & WCMS

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content [...]

History of WCMS !!!

Web Content Management Systems began to be formally developed as a commercial software product in 1995 by two startups, Sunnyvale, California-based Interwoven and it’s flagship TeamSite product and Austin, Texas-based Vignette’s Vignette Content Management product. As the internet began to grow, likewise, the importance of Web Content Management as a part of IT infrastructure began [...]

What is WCMS?

A Web content management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, [...]