Document Management

A document management system (or commonly known as ECM for "Enterprise Content Management") covers the domain of strategy and the technology required for information management, material or immaterial. This includes the capture, storage, organisation, use, publication and archiving of information.

The Five challenges of document management

  • The capture of information: manual input, document scanning, optical character recognition, barcode reading, treatment of Webforms, etc.
  • Information management within operational constraints: version management of documents, search and navigation across document repositories, audit of the modifications, collaboration between users working on the same documents, Web content management, record management, protection of information and metadata storage, supervision and followed processes ("workflows")
  • Data storage : data repositories (for example databases), search services, etc
  • Publishing information: distribution and transformation of information or documents, security aspects, etc.
  • Archiving: strategies and support used for long-term data storage, for example automated migration of archivable data, etc.

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