Important Terms:

Enterprise content management systems

An enterprise content management system (ECM) is content, documents, details and records related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose and result is to manage the organization's unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location. The system manages the content related to commercial organizations. The main objectives of Enterprise content management are to streamline access, eliminate bottlenecks, optimize security and maintain integrity.

CMS
A content management system (CMS) is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computerbased. The procedures are designed to do the following:
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Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data Control access to data, based on user roles (defining which information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.) Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data Control of data validity and compliance Reduce repetitive duplicate input Improve the ease of report writing Improve communication between users

In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, text, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Serving as a central repository, the CMS increases the version level of new updates to an already existing file. Version control is one of the primary advantages of a CMS.\

Web Content Management System

Web content management (WCM) is a bundled or stand-alone application used to create, manage, store and deploy content on Web pages. Web content types can include text, graphics and photos, video or audio, and application code that renders other content or interacts with the visitor. WCM may also catalog or index content, select or assemble content at runtime, or deliver content to specific visitors in a personalized way or in different languages.

CMS has five main functions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Maintaining Security Managing Objects Managing Servers Managing Auditing Maintaining Reports.

What is LDAP?
LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server. Every email program has a personal address book, but how do you look up an address for someone who's never sent you email? How can an organization keep one centralized up-to-date phone book that everybody has access to? That question led software companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Lotus, and Netscape to support a standard called LDAP. "LDAP-aware" client programs can ask LDAP servers to look up entries in a wide variety of ways. LDAP servers index all the data in their entries, and "filters" may be used to select just the person or group you want, and return just the information you want. For example, here's an LDAP search translated into plain English: "Search for all people located in Chicago whose name contains "Fred" that have an email address. Please return their full name, email, title, and description." LDAP is not limited to contact information, or even information about people. LDAP is used to look up encryption certificates, pointers to printers and other services on a network, and provide "single signon" where one password for a user is shared between many services. LDAP is appropriate for any kind of directory-like information, where fast lookups and less-frequent updates are the norm. As a protocol, LDAP does not define how programs work on either the client or server side. It defines the "language" used for client programs to talk to servers (and servers to servers, too). On the client side, a client may be an email program, a printer browser, or an address book. The server may speak only LDAP, or have other methods of sending and receiving data LDAP may just be an add-on method. If you have an email program (as opposed to web-based email), it probably supports LDAP. Most LDAP clients can only read from a server. Search abilities of clients (as seen in email programs) vary widely. A few can write or update information, but LDAP does not include security or encryption, so updates usually requre additional protection such as an encrypted SSL connection to the LDAP server.

A content management framework (CMF) is an application programming interface for creating a customized content management system (CMS). The relationship between a CMF and a CMS can be illustrated by the following analogy: Unlike a typical CMS, a CMF is geared more towards configurability and customization. Picture a range of measurement where one end of the scale is labeled specific and the other end abstract. On the specific end of the spectrum, you would have something whose form is very specialized because its meant for a specific purposelike, say, a hammer. On the other end of the spectrum, you would have something much more abstracted, that is available to be configured any way you like, for a variety of purposeslike some wood and a chunk of steel.

You could make a hammer, or any number of other things with the wood and steel. Of course, while chunks of wood and steel are more configurable than a hammer, they arent terribly useful because few people have the specialized knowledge to work with such raw materials

RSS
(originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated workssuch as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and videoin a standardized format.[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",[3] or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. RSS feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favorite websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.

Web syndication
is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts). The term can also be used to describe other kinds of licensing website content so that other websites can use it.

Question: What is the difference between a state term schedule, a state term contract and a bid term contract? Answer:

State term contracts and bid term contracts are terms for contracts created through a competitive process (generally Invitations to Bid). A state term schedule is not created through a competitive procurement. The majority of state term schedules are negotiated contracts based on similarly situated most favored customer pricing and are held by manufacturers or software developers.

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