Open source CMS systems are the CMS systems that are available with complete source code and can be customized to fit the needs of your business.
Parameters to identify you need a CMS:-
• You need to change the content regularly
• You need to manually update the content
• There are multiple users managing the content
• A lot of time is spent in content update
• You have multiple versions of the same content
• You have multi-lingual content
• Same content is available at multiple locations and is inconsistent
Benefits of Open Source CMS
• No upfront cost and cheaper to implement – You do not need to pay any licensing cost which can be heavy sometimes. You might need to get a few customizations done based on requirement and would need to pay a development team for that.
• Complete flexibility of development and customization – You can customize the CMS based on your requirements and tweak the code/design as your need.
• Easy to find development teams and users worldwide– There are a lot of software service vendors available who specialize in open source CMS development.
• Features/extensions available- You can find a lot of features developed over the CMS and available for free or for some nominal fee.
• Ease of use: - You can get the CMS customized to be used in the way you would like to use it.
Drawbacks of Open Source CMS
• No direct support – There is no support available, you would need to depend on your technical team.
• Dependence on IT team – You would need to be more dependent on an IT team.
• Security Risks – As the code is available to everyone there are security holes that hackers can misuse.
• Documentation - Open source systems are not very well documented.
Algoworks believes in Open source CMS development and specializes in implementation, customization, support and migration from existing systems to Alfresco, Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, DNN CMS systems.
