Why are Web Content Management Systems Important?

Internet, in present scenario, has become a hub for a variety of activities for both regular users as well as businesses. Everything, from entertainment, communication, education, research to online selling and marketing, both personal and monetizing aspects of Internet are put to use using content generated by the activities of people online. Websites, User groups, Forums, Blogs, Mash-ups and wikis are some examples of systems that are used to organize this huge repository of content generated by the use of internet's services. All of these services fall under a category of software applications that are called Web Content Management Systems. These systems help in creating, editing, managing and optimizing the generated raw content to make it useful under some particular context.

Web based Content Management systems play a key role in the popularity that Internet has gained among regular people as well as the increased revenues and time saving and faster business practices that businesses are acquiring these days. This is because Information plays the central role in all of these scenarios and these systems help to manage this information. Apart from that, Web Based CMS systems provide tremendously easy to use interfaces for the users to interact with this data which saves their time as well as makes it possible for the no-so-tech-savvy people to have their presence on the Internet. An increase in number of blogs in past 2 years is a good example of this. Anyone, with a basic knowledge of computers and the internet can put up a blog, his portfolio or even a forum for the like thinkers to come and share their ideas, in just few minutes. Would not we were having these systems, it would be impossible for them to do so, and even for a tech-savvy person that could become a painstaking task since making such web applications can take months of hard work. For business users too, this translates to faster deployment of online services with very little initial and managing cost that decreases the total cost of ownership or TCO of the business owner.

Apart from these issues, Web Based Management Systems also help the Internet ecosystem by reducing the amount of redundant data produced by heavy sites. If data is completely different for each site on the internet, this translates to more use of bandwidth, which we all know, is no way cheap. Since the basic framework of all the sites that are using a particular CMS would be same, a good amount of data transfer is reduced as most modern computers employ caching for such data. So it becomes a win-win situation for everyone.