A content services platform is software that enables users to
create, share, collaborate on and store text, audio and video content. The CSP
serves as a repository of record and a single source of truth. Content services
platform is a relatively new term that is gaining acceptance as a successor to
enterprise content management (ECM) software.
Content services platforms for intelligent content can be installed either
as a product suite or as separate applications with common application
programming interfaces (APIs) and data repositories. Common capabilities
include:
- The ability to store data a single time and use it for multiple purposes.
- The ability to manage and store metadata for digitized content.
- Automatic versioning that allows documents and other data to display the most recent version by default, with access to previous versions.
Many of the vendors with products in the CSP category have simply expanded
their ECM products and spun them into service-oriented architecture platforms
with integrated content-related services and microservices, content
repositories and tools. Several prominent vendors, notably Box, Hyland and
Nuxeo, use the term, or variants such as "content services" to
describe their software. Also, tech analyst firm Gartner formally declared in
2017 that it would henceforth use CSP instead of ECM to identify vendors and
their services in what Gartner described as a fast-growing market.
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