Abstract
Document management is the control the lifecycles of documents in your organization — how they are created, reviewed, published, and consumed, and how they are ultimately disposed of or retained. This guide provides information architects, enterprise solution planners and designers, program managers, and information technology specialists with the information that they need to plan a document management.
Contents
Document Management 1
Contents ii
Introduction 1
Executive Summary 2
Background 2
What is document management? 2
Identify document management participants 5
Analyze document usage 6
Plan document libraries 8
Plan workflows for document management 10
Recommendation 11
Cost of Document Management System 12
Introduction
Document management features that you can use to control the life cycles of documents in your organization — how they are created, reviewed, published, secured, and consumed, and how they are ultimately disposed of or retained. This guide provides information architects, enterprise solution planners and designers, program managers, and information technology specialists with the information that they need to plan a document management.
The following list describes each topic in this guide.
"What is document management?" introduces the elements of a document management system and provides general guidance on document management planning.
"Identify document management participants and stakeholders" provides guidelines on determining the stakeholders and participants in your document management solution.
"Analyze document usage" provides guidance on determining the types of documents used in your enterprise and on analyzing the stages in the documents' life cycles.
Executive Summary
Everyone organizes their documents, emails, scans, electronic faxes, graphics, etc. in some fashion, whether or not they use a document management system (“DMS”).