Online Management products

Content management systems already became a “commodity” as products became established, and even more solutions flood the market. This is good news for customers, as it will lead to steadily falling prices, and a greater consistency of features.

Talking about future of CMS, many of the current CMS projects will fail, due to the current poor standard of implementation, and lack of understanding of usability, information architecture, knowledge management and content issues.
While CMS products are more effective and capable than ever, the continued obsession with technology-only approaches will generate far too many unsuccessful projects.
The good news is that the payoff for organisations who tackle CMS projects in a strategic way will be higher than ever, due to the technology strengths of CMS solutions.

The field of “content management” will continue to mature over the next few years, to achieve a higher level of consistency, repeatability and professionalism.
An increasing number of books and articles are being written about the discipline of content management, beyond the narrow focus on technical implementation.
These, along with the hard-learned lessons gained from unsuccessful implementations, will start to put the focus back on developing consistent and effective content management methodologies.

The move to open standards for content management systems is obviously desirable, but there seems to be few immediate moves towards this. At present, there are a handful of protocols for communicating with and between content management systems.
Beyond this, there are no widely adopted standards for storing, structuring or managing content.
Sooner or later, there will have to be a merging and rationalisation between content management, document management and records management.

The future CMS development will come up with improved technologies for
- Reuse of content
- Quick content creation and publish without any time delay.
- Integration of various internal applications
- Improved corporate and client communication
- Integrating external system and content
- Content Aggregation & Syndication
- Multiple access and transmission
It is not yet clear, however, what form this will take, or how such a merged platform would operate. There is still much learning, deep web reserach and experimenting to do in this area.