4.6  Benefits of Using Content Management System

The following are the benefits most content Management system will offer,

  • Deployment of Content Management System is cheap:  This is because most of them are Open Source therefore you don’t have to buy.
  • Ease of use. Uploading and updating information is quite easy to use, once installed; it doesn’t take you to be expert or technical in programming to do so. At Open University of Tanzania for example the issue of uploading, and updating information relating to faculties in the University’s website is normally done by individuals from respective faculties most of them non-technical people
  • Easy to customize: Almost all Content Management System offers flexibility to suit user’s needs and wants
  • Can be integrated with other systems like Learning Management System, for example the Moodle Learning Management system of the Open University of Tanzania has been installed with Alfresco plugin which allows users to pull resources stored in Alfresco while logged in moodle
  • Secure in a sense that it requires login credentials to upload, update and manage resources in the content management System