Monday, May 08, 2006

Document Management and Content Mangement - How are they Different

EDMS Systems help organise both paper and electronic files to manage accesibility ,security and document integrity while CMS systems helps enterprise to manage content in a secure controlled way

Document Management systems only controls the outer shell of documents , while content management manages the chunks of information within the document .Content management enables a much finer level of operation on the data.

Although both systems provide security, versioning ,search and access control,content management offers the added functionality of content reuse ,custom attributes ,structure and XML tagging