You are now stewards of ideas embodied in electronic data. Documents are no longer only static thin sheets of dead trees to be shuffled, collated and microfilmed into long term storage. The power is in the knowledge contained by the document and that knowledge must be used, reused and multiplied. A way to handle endless information must be developed. Endless information requires endless space.
Virtual space is the only option.
Organizations will deploy their knowledge to decide their next move. They will outsource the tasks of data administration, organizing, filing and warehousing. Servicing one need such as document management is no longer sufficient. Vendors need to supply multi-dimensional solutions that handle complex business structures. Besides DM, there is document movement.