Content management started from 2000 to become an important applications, then. COM and B2B, such experiences of capital and B2C market test and baptism, people back to the application of information technology to improve the fundamental - competition ability, and content management just can through to enterprises of all types of digital assets, value and reuse, management, to improve the efficiency of organization and the competitive power of enterprises, institutions and enterprises also began to realize the importance of content management.

Business unit informatization point of view, the following factors of content management software to the huge demand for:

(1) knowledge is the wealth of enterprises. In the Internet interactions, only one-tenth of sales, involving nine-tenths and other relevant information interaction, knowledge acquisition is increasingly reliant on the Internet, especially in the e-commerce environment, customer for personalized intelligent make buying decisions, need to obtain information, is not only the quantity of a commodity prices and, more important is probably the manual, product safety guarantee, the technical indexes and after-sales service, picture files, etc.

(2) the timeliness and accuracy. Whether in or outside the nets, enterprise network information updates faster, enterprises and units of information, and more production doubled, the present trend of enterprises and institutions needs more is a powerful, extensible, flexible content management technology to meet the constantly updated information, and then how to ensure and maintain the accuracy of the information and the truth will become more and more important.

(3) internal and external demand growth, unified net. With the construction of the informatization of enterprises and institutions, networking and the networking in the information interaction between more and more excellent content management system of enterprise, it is able to accomplish information collection and recycling of value-added utilization, and information on the net, more important is truly interactive and collaborative content.

Foreign engaged in software development of content management major manufacturers including Vignette Interwoven, BroadVision, Openmarket, Allaire Documentum, ATG,,, etc, these companies Hummingbird CM products and solutions based on J2EE, most highly professional platform, etc, main functions for enterprise-level users, is the main manufacturers. CM Have some more narrow professional manufacturers provide content management needs to function at a certain stage, such as the Verity provides knowledge retrieval, Micromedia provide content creation Akamai platform, Inkitomi and provide content distribution management technology, etc. Contrary, Microsoft and IBM, Oracle provides solutions to common platform of CM. But the market still has many CM, including:

In this new market is hard to find a CMS meet all the needs of users.

Some of the CMS just pure information publishing tools, not to collect and reuse of the content to mention the concepts of knowledge management, most is a group of website construction tools.

All the products are very poor visual link, only a handful of manufacturers can provide a visual software, the software is interactive, cannot be used as a management tool.