Birmingham - If you were asked the question, "Where is your organization's information stored?" twenty-five years ago, the answer would have been universal: "In those filing cabinets." Even the accounting records were housed in paper form. Today in the electronic age your answer would take much longer. Most organizations use a computerized accounting system for their day-to-day financial information. But the information that circles that core system (i.e. Sales Quotes, Marketing Literature, Emails, Paper Contracts, etc.) can reside in filing cabinets, on servers, on USB drives, on an employee's home computer, on a hosted web service. An organization's intellectual property is housed in paper as well as hundreds of electronic file formats across a myriad of systems. Content Management systems were developed to corral this information into a form that is easy to find and manage.

The Content Management Puzzle shows the high level forms that "content" can take on.