CMS - Content Management System give website owners the ability to interact with their website allowing any user with now technical skills to update and upload content.

First feature of the CMS, any one can update the website.

This way the content can be updated directly by the "owner" of the information, not needing to wait for the specialist to do the updates, and actually facilitating that the information will be always up to date.

• Reducing the cost and turnaround of maintaining your website
• Latest news, press releases library, etc..
• Documentation library for users or internal to your organisation
• Client or shareholders documentation (in a private area)
• Distributed Publishing of commercial literature
• etc..

So now that we have the information fast and up to date, what else?

Up to now most websites fall in the category of presenting your company's information.

With CMS the information can be shared between different department or with clients and suppliers, and you can even federate content aggregators from other partners (decentralised authoring) and syndicate part of your content.

Sharing the information with other users, within or outside your organisation, will actually improve the quality of the information published or shared.

• Combining expertise of several sources
  
• Obtaining fast feedback from other parties
  
• Speeding the time require to find agreements and consensus
  
• Documentation library for users or internal to your organisation
  
• Exchanging documentation with Client or other partners (in a private area)
  
• and the most common usage, to maintain the company's Intranet

• Shopping Carts
• Contact Management
• Help Desk / Bug Reporting
• Groupware
• Expense Reports
• Time Tracking
• ...

• Shared Calendar
  
• Bulletin Boards
  
• Discussion Boards
  
• Rating Systems
  
• Assets libraries (Pictures or documents)
  
• Advance customisable authoring and revision workflow and Version Control
• Project Tracking
• Polls