Document Management

Document Management provides seamless integration to Enterprise Content Management from the applications users access most often – it enables business users to find, access and update content directly from tools like Notes, Exchange, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It helps track updates and reduce risks by presenting the most current version of content to the right people at the right time.

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Seamless and intuitive document management integration into the Microsoft Desktop and common office applications including email, collaboration and web applications is essential for any ECM solution. IBM office document management connects essential IBM ECM resources and processes directly into a wide variety of popular desktop applications including:

• Windows explorer and the Windows Desktop
• Office productivity tools like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Email applications such as Exchange and Notes
• Collaboration tools such as IBM Connections and Microsoft SharePoint

Office document management from IBM can be extended into hundreds of other solutions such as imaging, engineering applications, Lotus Web Content Management, XML based content & document publishing applications.

• Enables search and access to documents in these systems across the organization
• Embraces industry specific standards that help IBM ECM integrate with business processes
• Extends the ECM infrastructure to include business documents created individually or via a collaborative processes

Document management topics

• Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS)

  The CMIS standard is an element of the office document management integrated approach to manage and control content created by shared workgroups across your organization.

• Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

  DITA and XML Authoring for Business Users: an IBM ECM and Quark solution for office document management.