Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions 

With hundreds of applications to choose from, content management is one of the most active sectors of open source software. While these options present a great opportunity to leverage open source software, I.T. decision makers often find themselves disoriented by the number of choices, the lack of information, and the ineffectualness of their traditional software selection processes. This Optaros white paper 'Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions' discusses strategies for understanding and selecting an open source content management system and describes fifteen of the more prominent options in the context of the business problems they are effective in solving.

Gottlieb, Seth. Hiveminds (2006). Articles>Content Management>Case Studies

From Enterprise Content Management to Effective Content Management   

The vision of enterprise content management (ECM) as a single system to manage all content became popular in 2000 and 2001. In theory, having a single, centralized system to organize and manage all of an organization’s content into an accessible and navigable electronic library is very attractive. Companies must manage a wide array of assets, including internal how-to documents to support business processes, internal and external correspondence, marketing literature, and product documentation. Organizations are buried in digital content, leaving people scrambling to find the right information when they need it.

Gottlieb, Seth. Optaros (2005). Articles>Content Management