Document management (DM) revolutionizes the management of information and provides the ability to rapidly find, retrieve and share all the documents in your repository. This section will provide you with more information on what digital DM is and how it works, essential components of an enterprise-level digital DM system and the technical issues you must consider.
As more and more organizations adopt document management systems (DMS) and replace filing cabinets and microfilm with digitized images, they still face the problem of getting information to users who don't have access to the system. DM systems make it easy to share documents electronically with colleagues and clients over a network, whether that is network-attached storage (NAS) or a storage area network system (SAN), on CD or DVD, or securely over the Web. Sharing paper documents usually entails photocopying, and sharing microfilm requires conversion to paper, but with digital documents, you can view the same documents simultaneously.
A quality document management solution should:
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