Improving Document Management and Enterprise Content Management Systems
Wikipedia defines a Document Management System (DMS) as "...a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents..."
AIIM defines an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System as "...the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes..." The Problem
DMS and ECM are rapidly becoming mandatory core applications for organizations striving to meet record-keeping requirements driven by stakeholders and governments around the world, going far beyond the appeal of such applications for everyday document storage and retrieval.
Notwithstanding the obvious appeal or necessity of these applications, the principle of garbage in, garbage out means that any application that manages documents can only be as good as the documents it manages.
Your organization has no control over the quality or content of incoming documents which DMS and ECM applications can accommodate. Happily, your organization is also unlikely to have any fundamental responsibility for the content of such documents.
The same is not true for documents which your organization creates. These are the documents for which your organization must take responsibility: for quality, for the content and metadata that will ultimately determine the performance of your DMS or ECM, and for the content that those applications will keep forever. The ActiveDocs Opus Solution
ActiveDocs Opus enables your organization to implement complete control over the quality, content, and metadata generation of Templates, the shared content they use, the data collected from users and other applications, and the generation of the document itself.
How?
ActiveDocs Opus lifts Template Design to new levels of exceptional functionality, ease-of-use, quality control, and collaborative content development.
ActiveDocs Opus provides a controlled Document Creation environment that's easy and well structured for your users and for your applications, across your enterprise.
ActiveDocs Opus integrates with your data sources, Document Management/Enterprise Content Management Systems, and other applications to ensure the best possible start to the document lifecycle.
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