What are the differences and similarities between KM and CM

[Former Member]

Could experts summarize the differences and similarities between KM and CM (content management)?

I appreciate. Thanks!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Christy,

Go through the artical under and u will find it very easy to diffrentiate between KM and CM.

[Diffrence Between KM and CM|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b0fb80df-5a6a-2910-ff92-af5c601fa263]

Hope this helps fi so points are welcome.

Regards.

Soni Vinit

[Former Member]

Hi Christy,

Here I give some more info about KM & CM in addition to what Koti gave above hoping it will give you a more clear idea of it.

About KM: KM is primarily a platform allowing integrating unstructured content and therefore allowing a user to find a central access point to such content.KM can be considered to be quite powerful as soon as it comes to integration of external information sources, so-called repositories. A repository is a logical storage space for information and data. The set of adapters to different repositories is highly sufficient u2013 it is possible to integrate repositories like Windows file servers and Lotus Notes databases for example.

KM also offers a large set of Repository Services. Such services add workflow, time-based publishing, access control, etc. to the content items contained within a repository.The best and certainly most used functionality of KM is the availability of KM Repositories, which reside within KM itself. This eliminates the need to provide external repositories lying outside of SAP NetWeaver.

Lastly, KM also provides a quite powerful Search and Classification engine with TREX (Text Retrieval and Extraction).

About CM: Knowledge management focuses on functionalities that enable users to access information while content management focuses on the maintenance and display aspect of content.

The KMu2019s CM functionality can be separated into three features:

- HTML editing

- Plain-Text editing

- XML-Forms for quick publishing

The first is that you have a very simple and rudimental WYSIWYG HTML editor for editing HTML files. The second is again a simple and rudimental plain-text editor for editing text-based files. Both editors can be launched from the KM Navigation iView which is similar to a file explorer. The third and more sophisticated solution is the so-called XML-Forms. With XML-Forms an administrator is able, as the name says, to create forms that can be used by content managers to publish content.

Hope it helps.Reward points if found helpful.

Regards,

Gourav.

[Former Member]

Hi Christy,

You may be misunderstood about KM.

Content Management(CM) is part of KM.CM is the internal repository in KM which comes with KM by default.

To access documents/folders/files from any source , you need to configure repositories (internal/extenal) to get into KM.

CM is also like a reposiotry which comes with KM by default.

CM is used to store data and manipulate date according to our needs.

Koti Reddy