• Import and creation of documents and multimedia material


• Identification of all key users and their roles


• The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different instances of content categories or types.


• Definition of workflow tasks often coupled with messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.


• The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.


• The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.


• Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default background colours and fonts.

Content management system

Content Management System