Document management technology helps organizations better manage the creation, revision, approval, and consumption of electronic documents. It provides key features such as library services, document profiling, searching, check-in, check-out, version control, revision history, and document security.
Used extensively in document-intensive industries such as insurance or legal services, document management technology enables organizations to improve usability, accessibility, and security, while gaining greater control over electronic documents.
XML component management
A specific field of Document management is
XML component management. Business critical information often needs to be reused in multiple contexts and publications and to be repurposed to different target groups and publication media such as print, web, digital TV, mobile, … To be able to publish them in multiple ways
XML is the most designated format. XML chunks, if available as separate objects in a content management system, can be reused in multiple contexts, offering ROI by
writing and updating once, using many. This reuse, being very powerful, also adds specific challenges not encountered in traditional document management to be addressed by
dedicated tools and knowledge.
