In case you have not come across the term before, CMS stands for Content Management System. The idea is that a central store of data is held, or often automatically gathered, from which a system can present the information in different ways. If we take an example of this blog, if I were to use static HTML pages, in the way many web sites used to produced, I would spend all day simply moving data from one page to another, and end up with a lot of duplicated work. This is obviously not ideal. However, each post I write, or image I upload, exists in its own right, and each page you read here simply extracts the most recent posts (seven in this site’s case), and creates the front page from them. After this is done, the second page is created with the next oldest seven posts. Similarly, if I want to use an image I have previously posted, rather than fiddling about too much, I can simply direct the site to display the same image again.
Whilst this saves me a great deal of time personally, can you imagine how many work hours would be lost if a company tried to use static pages to present their information to staff and customers? The scary part is, many companies still follow this method, leaving their staff tied up with mundane repetitive work, when they could be earning the company more money.
epazz’s portal software ensures that almost any of your staff can produce professional looking pages, without scripting skills, and that not only will the result look professional, but you will also encounter a great deal of flexibility as to how exactly you present your information. If you need some sectors of your audience to be actively informed of changes to your stock, business methods or staffing structure, rather than relying on those people to visit your site, you can become pro-active and send them e-mails or documents automatically, again, all from within the Portal Software CMS system.
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