Document management, often referred to as Document Management
Systems (DMS), is the use of a computer system and software to
store, manage and track electronic documents and electronic images
of paper based information captured through the use of a document
scanner.
Document management is how your organization stores, manages and
tracks its electronic documents.
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,