topic ECM and CMS what is the difference? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119368#M84165 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I m on the stage of doing reports of Alfresco and when I m about to give a definition of Alfresco I stumble on some definitions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know that Alfresco is refered as a CMS and also as a ECM.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But what is exactly the difference between the 2 terms?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>CMS stands for content management systems, and ECM for enterprise content management.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I guess that ECM is included in CMS meaning all ECM are CMS.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But do the ECM have basic features that most CMS dont have or is it just a fancy name to indicate that a specific CMS is used for enterprise business?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can someone please enlightened me?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Seraphon</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:00:41 GMT seraphon 2007-08-24T10:00:41Z ECM and CMS what is the difference? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119368#M84165 HiI m on the stage of doing reports of Alfresco and when I m about to give a definition of Alfresco I stumble on some definitions.I know that Alfresco is refered as a CMS and also as a ECM.But what is exactly the difference between the 2 terms?CMS stands for content management systems, and ECM for e Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:00:41 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119368#M84165 seraphon 2007-08-24T10:00:41Z Re: ECM and CMS what is the difference? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119369#M84166 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Have you tried here*..?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system</A><BR /><BR /><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Content_Management" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Content_Management</A><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><EM>* May or may not be useful, but usually a good starting point</EM></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:08:53 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119369#M84166 mikeh 2007-08-24T10:08:53Z Re: ECM and CMS what is the difference? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119370#M84167 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>yep of course, and to me they both are the same. Like I said it seems to me that ECM is just a fancy name to categorize some CMS.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you want to know the source of my confusion, its just that Alfresco is qualified everywhere(not really everywhere but you understand what I mean) as a CMS.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But on the about US in the Alfresco homepage, it is written as if it was a glorious fact that Alfresco is a ECM.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What value does saying that Alfresco is a ECM add compared to just saying its a CMS?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Seraphon</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:21:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119370#M84167 seraphon 2007-08-24T10:21:06Z Re: ECM and CMS what is the difference? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119371#M84168 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The industry seems to classify CMS as mostly belonging to purely Web content, whereas Alfresco has its roots in document management which is possibly why there's confusion.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In general, ECM systems are more geared towards processing and collaboration of content and tend to be deployed to solve different problems and perform different tasks to a web CMS. As an example, very few web CMS support document transformation and workflow, whereas these would be expected in an ECM.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Because Alfresco is built upon the ECM principles, as well as supporting "traditional" web CMS technologies, you're getting the best of both worlds!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:32:05 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119371#M84168 mikeh 2007-08-24T10:32:05Z Re: ECM and CMS what is the difference? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119372#M84169 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>well thank you for the clarification but I think this should be mentionned more learly in the wiki because I m sure I am not the only one who was confused by it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>On a side note, I think the french wikipedia page on CMS is more detailed than the english one.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Seraphon</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:02:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ecm-and-cms-what-is-the-difference/m-p/119372#M84169 seraphon 2007-08-27T03:02:14Z