A COMPARATIVE STUDY BASED ON OPEN SOURCE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Development of websites using traditional technologies involve large amount of coding and huge efforts in small tasks. Moreover, to storedata the designers need to use and maintain a database and connect the website through JDBC and ODBC for database transactions andverifications. Such development and management of websites is a difficult task and consumes large human resources and investments. Evenfor regular updation of websites, the professionals need to be hired. A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage thecontents of a web site. It is a collection of (manual or computer-based) procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborativeenvironment. The procedures are designed to allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data; control access todata, based on user roles; aid in easy storage and retrieval of data; reduce repetitive duplicate input; improve the ease of report writing; andimprove communication between users. In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything, i.e., documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, etc. The features of a CMS system vary but most include web-based publishing, format management, revision control, andindexing, search, and retrieval. A CMS can be easily embedded into a live website so as to help the owner update its content at its ownhaving bare minimum knowledge about coding of the websites. It keeps websites well organised and comprehensive, increases the datasecurity, and reduces the site maintenance costs. In this paper we present a review of some of the popular content management systempackages