Content Management System are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures.
In our system for specific need a content management system may support the following features:
•   Import and creation of documents and multimedia material
•   Identification of all key users and their content management roles
•   The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
•   Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
•   The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
•   The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.
•   Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default colour, fonts, or layout.