Open Source Content Management System for Financial Clients

Introduction

This post will introduce the concept of content management system to beginners. We will discuss some suitable open source content management sytems for finanicial clients. This post will also suggest some open source content management systems which are best suitable in market for financial clients like Banks.

Content Management Systems

Content management systems is famous by its name CMS.  A content management system is ready-made software which can be installed by any type of business on their own servers. CMS helps users to easily collaborate their day-to-day activity like project meetings organizations, news broadcasting, centralized file management and many other features. Each CMS users can create their own pages. Each page can provide a well-defined set of functionalities. A user needs not to be a developer to create a new pages. They will just need to choose what type of feature they are in search of. As for example, if a user wants to create a page to keep track for its project documents, he/she can go the template library available in the CMS. Then he/she can select the template which will be the best suitable for his required functionality.

This document aims to introduce/describe some of the open source CMS which will be helpful to the financial clients like Banks. There several content management systems present in open source market. Each of them provides different functionality which may not be present in other. Some of the features which are must for financial clients may not be available in some CMS.

CMS Features

The most of the commons feature of a content management system are as following.

USER SECURITY FEATURES
DRAG/DROP AND FILE CREATIONS.
WEB SERVICES VIA API
EXPORT/IMPORT AND FILE ZIPPING
RESTRICTIVE MULTIPLE FILE UPDATING WITH THE HELP OF CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT FEATURE
REPORTING IN THE FORM OF CHARTING, BARRING AND OTHER COMMON REPORTING DIAGRAMS.
MANY OTHERS.

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Open source CMS for Financial Clients

Several Banks do prefer the open source content management system. Being open source they can also change the features available in the content management systems without a lot of financial burden. Some of the banks do prefer the following CMS.

Alfresco

It provides a lot of feature and most of the features are very rich in terms of their intended nature. It has java support which means if the Bank needs to change the functionality of the CMS itself; it can easily do that because most of the bank will have several java developers in their IT department.

Logical Docs

LogicalDOC is a document management system allowing a user to optimize its work by searching documents with help of keywords, parameters or content.  It mainly provides following features. Check the link for more details. You can check here the more features.

Document Management

Document delivery

Digital Signature
Book marking and version control
Other features.

Document import/export
Import from folders
Hot import and many more

Collaboration
Check-in and check-out
Discussion forums
Internal messaging systems
RSS  and more

Administrative tasks
Task Manager
Security, users and groups
Other administrative tasks.

Integration
Mobile Phone apps (for android platform)
Microsoft Office Ad-in
LDAP and active directory
 
Open KM
Will be updated soon.

Web Content Management Systems

If a content management system is installed and accessed (both by admin and simple user) via web, then it is mainly called as “Web Content Management Systems”. In the current market Web CMS is highly popular due to the ease of scalability.  In the financial domain, the two famous Web CMS product is Livesite and Teamsite. Both of these CMS products is from Autonomy.

LIVESITE

If the content of a company changes frequently based on its context and selling features based on demand, then this CMS is the best suitable, if business wants the ability to directly make the changes and publish it on the CMS site.

TEAMSITE

Teamsite provides several corporate level functionalities. Some of the important features are content authoring, layout, site design, analytics, workflow based approval and many others. It provides automatic code, content and configuration deployment which hugely reduces the production implementation cost to the business. Check here to know more details on teamsite content management systems.