Evaluation and Comparison of the Conceptual Frameworks of CMS Sudhanshu Naithani Department of Computer Science Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India Abhishek Kaushik Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Kiel University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany Abstract — Content management systems (CMS) present an optimal response by maintaining the work flow of the information and, mostly, creating and organizing the companies’ knowledge. However there is a large perplexity about the functionalities that characterize CMS and about the differences with less performing CMS. This paper aims to show the comparison between different CMS and then prepare the conceptual framework after removing the shortcoming discussed over the comparison. For this basis, the writers formulate a hypothetical comparison between the functionalities of CMS and those of the systems they are often confused with. The consequence consists of performing definitions for CMS and the other systems for managing information. Content Management products are analyzed, compared and evaluated by using a special table created to point out the actual functionalities of the products offered on the market, despite vendors’ declarations. Keywords-Content Management System;Web CMS;Open Source;Sharepoint;Wordpress;Drupal. I. INTRODUCTION In answer to the question about who wrote the first CMS are varied, that includes Roxen and Blitzen, Ingeniux, and Vignette. The chief characteristic was a very structured development environment to make simpler the complex management. If one could not know how to play around with HTML, they probably were helpless in doing their work [1]. Most often these websites were design and developed by web agencies rather than by software firms and every agency had their own web designers who could write HTML code [2]. The major evolution of CMS development was led by software firms who revised the functionality and started to build today’s CMS. The main features which were slowly built in under the evolutionary process which included WYSIWYG text editing, search, and many more features [2]. CMS became more demanding in respect to feature and web agencies needed both the technical skills, as well as designers, to fulfil each client’s demand for their own CMS [4]. Content management (CM) is the collection of tasks that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any way. Content can be any type of file mode [1]. It can take any form such as documents, multimedia files (audio or video files), or any other file type that follows a content lifecycle requiring management [2]. It often consists of the following basic Roles and responsibilities: • Creator: main responsibility includes the creation the content. • Editor: responsible for the makeover the article on the content. • Publisher: responsible for releasing the article or the content for use. • Admin: main responsibility to control access permissions to folders and files and • Assigning: access rights to users. A. Define Content Management System (CMS)? A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing, or modification of content, as well as site maintenance, from a main page [2]. The content consists of HTML, XML, and other documents and media files on WORLD WIDE WEB. This content can be published manually by editing and organizing files on a file system [3]. The file system is then exposed to the web through a web server, requiring much technical expertise and tedious work. Content management systems store the content which can beany format in database. The system by automation takes the content out for further operations [4]. Sudhanshu Naithani et al. / International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE) ISSN : 0975-3397 Vol. 8 No.9 Sep 2016 354