Abstract:
Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) is
a rapidly developing technology and is considered as
the solution for organizations that needs a way to
manage the information efficiently. EDMS
applications focus on the control of electronic
documents throughout their entire life cycle, from
creation to eventual archiving. Its functions include
document creation, storage and retrieval,
management, version control, workflow and multiple
delivery formats.
Document management is not a single entity or
technology, but rather a combination of elements. It
is the use of information and different users in a
business process, combined with the technology that
permits the interaction. The technologies that make
up the EDMS are categorized into distinct functional
groupings. We present these and describes the
techniques used to electronically manage documents.
We also explores the immediate future of the EDMS
and conclude that having the EDMS industry is at
crossroads in its own lifecycle and is made up of a
highly fragmented group of products with no single
integrated vendor or framework for automating the
entire cradle to grave document life cycle.
