Every day organizations are creating an increasing amount of digital content to run their business. In addition, teams of professionals such as creative designers, engineers, lawyers and government agencies work collaboratively to create, update and distribute documents, web pages, images and multimedia files.

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Historically, these organizations have relied on a shared network drive to store their content requiring users to manual create, find, update and distribute documents, images and multimedia files. However, business drivers such as regulatory compliance pressures, protecting confidential company information and improving efficiencies to cut costs, are forcing companies to adopt content management systems to automate the management of their digital assets. Content and Workflow management systems help organizations:

• Simplify content management by using a centralized location where users can search, find and share the information they need
• Improve collaboration and business processes through version control, documents review, change tracking, and document approval
• Protect sensitive information by assigning user roles and responsibilities, and controlling access rights
• Reduce costly errors such as distributing the incorrect versions of engineering documents
• Meet compliance requirements such as SOX and HIPPA through better management of regulated documents and key business processes in engineering, manufacturing and sales

Over the years, content management systems have grown in scope and encompass many different capabilities and application types. These include:

• Document Management to track and store electronic documents including sales contracts and press releases
• Collaboration enables teams of users to create, review, update and publish documents, as well as restore older versions of edited documents
• Records Management for classifying and storing government, business and personal records like birth certificates, medical x-rays and artifacts
• Knowledge Management for storing and sharing documents to facilitate knowledge transfer
• Web Content Management for creating, reviewing, updating and publishing documents to a public Web site or internal intranet
• Workflow and Business Process Management to automate the moving of documents from one person to another from creation through approval

Content Management and Workflow Systems were only available to large organizations who could afford a large software and hardware investment. However, with numerous high-quality open source infrastructure products available organizations can quickly deliver cost-effective content management systems. MySQL enables ISVs and OEMs to build modern content management and workflow products by providing the following benefits:

• Ease of installation, configuration and use making it quick and easy to embed MySQL into their products and ship a full featured solution to their customers
• High Performance making searching for specific files and workgroup functions like editing and updating files extremely fast
• High Reliability which contributes to the overall quality of the content management solution. Leading ISVs like Adobe, SAS and Sage have selected MySQL for its high reliability
• Cost-effective enabling ISVs/OEMs to implement a content management solution at a lower cost than competitors. This allows OEMs/ISVs to target large enterprises as well as price-sensitive Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs)
• Zero Administration so customers don't have to hire high-cost database administration skills to maintain the database. SMBs in particular can't afford to hire a dedicate DBA to manage their content management solution

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