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A Brief History of Content Management
Content has existed for at least 5,000 years, since the invention of written language. Formal content management has been playing a big role in business, in the form of brochures, catalogs, contracts, correspondence, invoices, purchase orders, billings and so forth. However, for most of this period "content management" has been mostly a matter of physical file folders and file cabinets
As an IT initiative, content management was virtually ignored until imaging technology in the 1980s made it possible to replace large-scale filing (such as in insurance claims processing) with more cost-effective electronic image repositories. These early applications evolved to include the concept of workflow, in which the images could be moved around electronically to the computer equivalent of "in" and "out" baskets.
Then, toward the end of the 1980s, we hit an era of severe "information overload" as electronic publishing suddenly accelerated content production at an exponential rate. The problem was compounded by personal computers, whose widespread use took away most of the ability for IT to exert any centralized control
As the 1990s dawned, personal computers were increasingly becoming linked by local area networks, and centralized client-server applications began to arise. With the realization that this provided a means to re-establish control over electronic content, the age of document management was born. By the mid-1990s, the worlds of document management and imaging / workflow had begun to converge, and vendors of these products were beginning to experiment with a new phenomenon - the widespread adoption of the Internet.
By 1998, the Web had evolved from an interesting phenomenon to serious business, and was now composed of literally billions of individual Web pages. Suddenly "document management" began to go out of vogue, and "web content management" became the central focus. The Web frenzy hit its crescendo in 1999, but with the dot.com and NASDAQ crash in the year 2000, attention has again turned to a more balanced combination of print and web-based content, together with increasing focus on wireless devices, audio clips, streaming video, and other new forms of electronic content. Also, while the rush to B2C e-commerce has slowed somewhat, there is now a renewed focus on automatically communicating electronic business content through XML-based B2B commerce networks.
Today many variations of content management exist, all based on the same principles but each with different purposes in mind. These include:
Web content management, knowledge management, Document Management, Imaging management, Digital Asset management, and record management
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