Document Management System

Document management is one of the precursor technologies to content management, and not all that long ago was available solely on a stand-alone basis like its imaging, workflow, and archiving brethren. It provides some of the most basic functionality to content management, imposing controls and management capabilities onto otherwise “dumb” documents. This makes it so that when you have documents and need to use them, you are able to do so. Some of the key features in document management include:
* Check-in/check-out and locking, to coordinate the simultaneous editing of a document so one person’s changes don’t overwrite another’s
* Version control, so tabs can be kept on how the current document came to be, and how it differs from the versions that came before
* Roll-back, to “activate” a prior version in case of an error or premature release
* Audit trail, to permit the reconstruction of who did what to a document during the course of its life in the system
* Annotation and Stamps,