A CMS is simply a system to manage content. A Content Management System allows content to be stored, retrieved, edited, updated, controlled, then output in a variety of ways such that the incremental cost of each update cycle and output production shrinks dramatically over time.

Major CMS components include the data repository, user interface, workflow scheme, editorial tools, and output utilities. All these allow a multitude of content-related activities like the ability of writers to work in one-way environment, create or update content, ability of editors to receive writer’s work, ability of managers to keep track of who's doing what etc. The final edited content, managed in the same repository, can be output in a variety of configurations in a variety of ways (printed book, CD, Web site etc.) each of which might have different combinations of the content formatted in different ways but all of which draw from the same database.

There are several benefits associated with a CMS:

• Reduced updation costs.
• Content is always in usable form.
• The tracking and workflow mechanism is an effective development and production aid.
• Can turn a production cost into a content investment.
• Cost-effective custom-publishing opportunities.

FCS has a commendable expertise in CMS development. We can design a CMS based on your specific requirements. We understand the finer nuances involved in a CMS design that involves solutions for the integration of database, workflow, and editorial tools. Our CMS solutions are scalable, cost-effective and include a 24x7 powerful support system.

FCS’s competency in CMS design can be gauged from its strategic knowledge on CMS design. For instance, our professionals identify the following as core elements in an effective and powerful CMS:

Adaptivity: Adaptability enables the site to adapt to the needs of its users. This means that the CMS should facilitate a change in the information it presents to users that is based on their interests or requirement.

Powerful Repository: CMS should contain a powerful data repository to facilitate easy access, updation, and re-distribution. A CMS repository should be broken down to its lowest logical level of granularity. And the format of the information should be SGML or even plain ASCII text.

Searching facilities: Fast and efficient full-text searching facilities based on keywords, topic and thesaurus-based recommendations, detailed advanced searching.

Tailor-made Design: Designs should be contemporary so as to trigger interest and it should be endowed with full navigational functionality.

JISC internal facilities: Contain provision for secure logon, and an internal (private) file area where users can store/draft web content.

Miscellaneous facilities: A good CMS should also offer value-added functionalities like online forms for booking events and ordering publications, a knowledge management and archiving facility, and potential for further development of facilities such as newsfeeds, tracking systems, detailed web statistics and so on.