This ensures that individuals can access any previous version of a document and view it exactly as it appeared at that time. The Generic Office is an architecture of high level functionality's and processes designed to support a knowledge driven and continuously evolving organization. The transportation vehicle is the intelligent document and its associated objects. Today, most of the organizational documents are in filing cabinets, in piles on desks, on individual PCs and workstations in a wide range of software applications. Documents begin at the desktop and flow out to the workgroup, the department, the enterprise, other businesses, and customers.
Documents consist of a variety of data, information and knowledge objects.
Documents are characterized by their structure and the type of objects used to create and assemble them. The synchronization of object management with object processing creates an environment where information and knowledge can be dynamically rendered and distributed while also being effectively managed. The replication of data must be avoided or seamlessly integrated so that the user is unaware of potential differences that could have occurred. The corporate asset or holdings e.g. data, information, knowledge, must be normalized to facilitate access and maintain integrity. This can only be achieved from a single source corporate repository.