CMS 2005: The Content Store

In the traditional model, a content management system is a large centralized repository, to which an administrator assigns users varying degrees of access. System 7 CMS by contrast has adopted a model that allows publishers to take a more devolved approach, which increases productivity and security, and makes it easier to design advanced content and syndication architectures.

Publishers that use System 7 CMS no longer have to create a single centralized repository, and can instead create any number of separate “content stores”. Each content store acts as an independent repository for the storage and management of XML and media content, holding its own unique content, content categorization hierarchies and user accounts. However, although any number of stores may be created, System 7 CMS technology makes it easy for publishers to integrate and combine content from across the stores they operate.

This makes it possible to partition content management throughout a publishing organization, and provision logically separate systems for different publishing divisions, creativity groups, genres of content, websites, magazines and even individuals as required, reducing management costs and empowering end user groups. Properly applied, this can also be used for the purposes of increasing security where, for example, freelancers are provided with access to special repositories that are logically separate from the others.

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