Author Question: What are the alternatives to content management applications? What will be an ideal ... (Read 23 times)

karateprodigy · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

What are the alternatives to content management applications?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Cross-functional, integrated systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), add to the problems of data isolation.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Jane · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Three common alternatives for content management applications are:
1. In-house custom applications: In the past, organizations developed their own in-house content management applications. A customer support department, for example, might develop in-house database applications to track customer problems and their resolution. Operations might develop an in-house system to track machine maintenance procedures. Like all custom applications, however, custom content management applications are expensive to develop and maintain.
2. Off-the-shelf applications: Because of the expense of custom applications, many organizations today use off-the-shelf software. Some organizations choose vertical market off-the-shelf applications. Off-the-shelf products have considerably more functionality than most in-house systems and they are far less expensive to maintain.
3. Public search engines: The largest collection of documents ever assembled exists on the Internet, and the world's best-known document search engine is Google. Because Google searches through all public sites of all organizations, it is usually the fastest and easiest way to find a public document. This often is true even within an organization.

Answer to Question 2

FALSE