Unparalleled control of your content components
Paligo gives you unparalleled control over every granular content component at a level you’ve never seen in another CCMS. With Paligo’s unique reuse features you will always know where everything is reused, down to the smallest text fragment.
It's currently the best web-based CCMS out there.
Structured authoring made easy
Structured authoring makes your content consistent, accurate, and future-proof. The user-friendly XML editor gives you the full power of content reuse, making structured authoring a breeze so you can focus on writing great content.
- XML based
- Conditional text
- Variables
- Component reuse
Goodbye content silos. Hello team collaboration.
Have your entire team working together on your content in a modern cloud platform. With a global online CCMS solution and streamlined reviewer and contributor workflows, you are all on the same page. Literally.
Multi-channel publishing anywhere you need
Paligo goes far beyond what you’d see in other Component Content Management Systems, with multi-channel publishing not only to HTML, PDF and the other common outputs.
You can also create beautiful HTML5 Help Centers at the click of a button, push content directly to Zendesk, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and connect to continuous integration workflows in GitHub, BitBucket, Azure, Amazon S3 and many more channels.
And yes, Paligo connects to Content Delivery Platforms like Fluid Topics and Zoomin, as well as hosting providers like Netlify and more.
Top-rated CCMS on G2 & TrustRadius
Don’t just take our word for it. Find out why Paligo is top-rated on G2 and TrustRadius in the Component Content Management System category.
Smart image management
Paligo takes the complexity out of image management. Paligo takes care of producing HTML, print, and other versions of your images, even translated versions of the image.
Manage translations. Not files.
Paligo gives you smart translation management. No more duplicate files for each language. Integrates with Phrase and other TMS solutions.
- Management view
- XLIFF support
- Multi-byte and RTL
- Bilingual editor
- TMS integration
Get reviewers and contributors on board
Paligo lets your engineers, SMEs, and other teammates contribute easily in a user-friendly editor that feels like the tools they already use.
I wanted the team size to grow, so it had to be scalable and enable true teamwork. Paligo did all this.
"All the pain of dealing with a lethargic system is gone. Paligo makes tech writers live longer."
Vincent Bartley, Tech Writer at AutoStore
Versioning made for technical writers
With version history and roll-back, version branching, and release management made specifically for technical writers and content authors, you don’t have to worry about the complexity of traditional developer-oriented version control systems.
- Revision history
- Version compare
- Version branching
- Release management
No vendor lock-in: easily export your content
Paligo customers are not locked into Paligo, thanks to the open DocBook content model. If you ever want to migrate your content out of (or into) our platform, you can do so with the confidence that other platforms will be able to ingest your content without issue.
Paligo plays well with other systems you need
With our growing list of integrations, you can publish to Zendesk Help Center, Salesforce Knowledge, ServiceNow, and many other channels, collaborate with your team in Slack or MS Teams, manage professional translations with Phrase, use Algolia, Swiftype, and more high-end search engines, get first-class review comparisons with DeltaXML, and more.
Content Component Management Systems in a Nutshell
A Component Content Management System (CCMS) manages content in granular components rather than whole documents, allowing for efficient content reuse and single-sourcing. It stores paragraphs, images, tables, and even individual words as separate components, which can be assembled into larger documents.
Using XML-based structured authoring, a CCMS ensures consistency, accuracy, and cost-effective content production. It supports multi-channel publishing, delivering content to web, print, eLearning, and apps.
Unlike traditional CMS platforms, which focus on creating web pages or documents, a CCMS is designed for creating, managing and distributing large volumes of structured documentation efficiently. Our key features include version control, collaboration tools, workflow management, and translation support.
FAQ: Common Questions About Content Component Management Systems
A CCMS is used for managing and reusing content at a granular level, allowing teams to create, update, and distribute components—like text snippets and images—across websites, apps, and knowledge bases. This ensures consistency, efficiency, and real-time collaboration.
The difference between CMS and CCMS is that a CMS handles a document or a page as a unit of content, whereas users in a CCMS builds publications from reusable components like text snippets, images, videos or text paragraphs. These components are stored centrally and constitue a single-source of content, enabling streamlined content updates and repurposing across multiple platforms.
Paligo is one of the best and most user-friendly CCMS platforms according to our customers, offering structured authoring, content reuse, version control, and multi-channel publishing. It simplifies documentation workflows, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and seamless collaboration across various digital and print outputs.
A CCMS works by breaking content into smaller, reusable components instead of managing entire documents as single units. It allows you to organize and control individual elements like paragraphs, sentences, or words for greater flexibility and efficiency.
