---
title: "Documentation"
description: "Discover Gitana's platform for creating, managing, and publishing engaging enterprise content with real-time engagement. (Gitana 4.0)"
product: "Gitana"
version: "4.0"
url: "/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview"
---

# Documentation

Gitana makes it easy for your business to create, manage and publish engaging content to your customers for continuous, real-time engagement. On Time. Every Time.

Gitana is an Enterprise Content Platform for relational, highly structured and unstructured content. It provides strong, centralized management of content with workflow-driven approval and fast, incremental deployment to your custom APIs, applications, web sites and RAG-based LLM models.

**Getting Started**

![Getting Started Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview/getting-started-icon.png)

If you're new to Gitana, we recommend starting with the [Getting Started Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/getting-started.md).

This introduces the platform while covering the concepts and the design philosophy.

**Content Engine**

![Content Engine Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview/data-engine-icon.png)

The [Content Engine Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/engine.md) dives into the technical features and capabilities of the platform.

Learn about branches, scheduled publishing, content modeling, workflow and publishing.

**User Interface**

![User Interface Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview/user-interface-icon.png)

The [User Interface Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/ui.md) explores the Content Management editorial experience.

Create, manage and publish content with simple, intuitive content forms.

**Reference**

![Reference Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview/reference-icon.png)

The [Reference Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/reference.md) provides information on datastore and object types.

A concise reference for all Gitana data types, properties, schemas and method invocations.

**Developers**

![Developers Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview/developers-icon.png)

The [Developers Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/developers.md) provides information about our drivers, language libraries and framework plugins.

These can be used to accelerate the development of your custom applications.

**Forms**

![Forms Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview/forms-icon.png)

The [Forms Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/forms.md) is a reference for development of forms using the Gitana Forms engine.

You'll find documentation here for the Alpaca Forms engine including guidance on building custom forms, templates and field implementations.

**Self-Managed**

![Self-Managed](/documentation/gitana/4.0/home/overview/self-managed-icon.png)

The [Self-Managed Guide](/documentation/gitana/4.0/self-managed.md) provides an administrative guide for running your own on-premise, Kubernetes-based installation of Gitana.

Gitana runs on premise under either a free/community license or a paid/enterprise license.