Why use Content Management Systems (CMS)?

"Publishing a few pages on a Web site is very easy and simple. Getting a group of people to publish to a Web site effectively is difficult. Getting a number of groups of people creating a combination of static and dynamic pages, tracking revisions, setting up Workflow and making the environment scalable and secure, is nearly impossible."

The mounting quantities of information and the complexity of Web sites today put big demands on Web site management, which is a labour intensive and costly venture, using the ordinary tools generally available. The use of a Web Content management system significantly reduces the work and expense involved in maintaining a Web site.

The challenge facing companies today is to design and implement a Web site that enables them to improve the way they do business. How efficiently a company conducts its business, how quickly it can identify and enter new markets, communicate across its enterprise, and how easily it adapts to its competition, determines its success in today’s economy.

In short, there is tremendous business value for a company that can successfully integrate its information across the organisation into an information `collective`, manage and leverage this information, and deliver it to end users through a variety of timely, accurate, easily accessible means.