What is the System 7 Publication Management System?

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Content management systems first appeared during the 1990s, enabling non-technical users to manage content themselves, and developers to create workflows and later integrate content into dynamic websites with greater ease. As time has gone on, content management systems have bundled more and more functionality to increase productivity, often providing functionality that goes beyond content management.

The System 7 PMS (Publication Management System) is a management technology that continues that evolution towards standardized higher-level functionality, and is concerned with whole Web publications and their structure and operation. The PMS works in partnership with content management systems, syndicating content to build publications and even bonding to pre-existing websites where required. A wide range of sophisticated turnkey functionalities, such as content-centric traffic analysis and premium content tariff regulation, can then be applied to publications using Web-based control panels and dashboards.

The PMS consists of two main components: a management application and a Web publishing framework. The Web publishing framework bonds the high-level services, features and functionalities provided by the management application to the Web publication's pages or "skin". This ability makes it possible to standardize publication management across a portfolio, quickly leveraging professionally developed functionality and delivering advanced operational publishing infrastructures with a fraction of the effort normally required.