Further, a large percentage of these documents are stored on local computer hard drives, not on network file servers, and are therefore inaccessible to the organization unless they are recreated on paper. The need for a system to control this explosive growth has spawned a variety of solutions within organizations. For example, productivity suites, document management, and records management all store and retrieve electronic documents. Both records management and document management are involved with determining who has security access to a document. The result is becoming a highly complex, and potentially conflicting set of software solutions.
Workflow management is the infrastructure to enable cooperation and control.
The coexistence of electronic and paper stores for documents and of the respective computer based or manual steps to manage those documents. With proper integration, or sharing of responsibilities, workflow, records management, and document management systems can be combined into a powerful set of solutions to a wide range of information asset management needs. Copyright 1997-2000 HandyGirl. All Rights Reserved.