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Article Excerpt
The data inside a corporation doubles every six to eight months, according to META Group. As a result, content management systems (CMSs) have become a critical component of organizations' IT infrastructures, managing all enterprise content for a variety of applications.
In the past, exchanging information between content repositories and data-oriented applications within and across organizations was extremely difficult, as many of these systems are incompatible with one another. Consequently, users were often forced to manually convert native content into Web-viewable formats or to cut and paste data into Web-based templates before distribution or publishing. These inefficient processes drove the development of CMSs, offering robust conversion technology that provided users a way to automatically convert and distribute native content via the Web.
XML has recently emerged as a popular mechanism in the content management industry for creating, managing, and exchanging data. As a standard, common format, it can be easily converted to and distributed in numerous other Web formats to best suit the needs of end users, applications, and devices (see Figure 1). XML has quickly become a de facto tool for sharing content between disparate enterprise systems.
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It's therefore essential now for organizations to consider the integration of basic XML functionalities when implementing a CMS.
The Content Management System
Providing critical business information on the Web is no longer an option for today's enterprise--it's a prerequisite to success. Consequently, the CMS has evolved into a must-have business application.
These systems allow enterprises to rapidly deploy line-of-business Web sites, such as partner portals and intranets, and manage...
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