The worldwide Web Content Management market has been growing exponentially. The market maturity has homogenized much of the competition. Therefore, procurement decisions should be increasingly based upon vendor viability and the vendor's long-term product strategy. Maintaining your web assets is both a cost of doing business and a competitive differentiator. There are proprietary and open source WCMs available today for organizations to choose from. Alfresco is one of the leading choices when organizations look at the open source options available to them.
The Alfresco WCM engages customers through next-generation sites, enabling mass contributions from internal and external users, simple configuration via reusable web scripts, and low-cost massive scalability that uses commodity software and hardware.
Cutting edge technology, rich interface experiences, user participation, and effective costing are all factors that organizations seek to consider while selecting the best suited WCM solution for their organization.
From a high-level perspective, WCM solutions in the market today can be classified into two types:
The following table shows the differences between the two types:
|
Features |
Wiki Style Web CMS |
Publishing Style Web CMS |
|---|---|---|
|
Authoring and delivery |
Single system for authoring and delivery |
Authoring and delivery are separated |
|
Content and presentation |
Little separation of content and presentation Content = Page or page fragment |
Separate content and presentation Content ≠ Page or page fragment |
|
Validation |
Little or no validation / QA process |
Configurable editorial and approval process |
|
Editing |
In place editing of live web pages |
Editing of separate editorial copy of content |
|
Apt for |
Smaller sites or those managed by smaller teams |
Larger sites or those managed by larger teams |
|
Examples |
Wikis Joomla! Drupal PHP Nuke Portal Server CM portlets |
Alfresco Interwoven Vignette Day |