Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Document Management Strategy

With the present demand for productivity, efficiency, security and to be competitive; most of the organizations trend to follow electronic document solutions . Most of the organizations adapt document management strategies to meet one of the following four requirement categories,
  • Accurate, reliable and trustworthy records/documents keeping is required to meet legal acceptance requirements and to meet legal use of records. (i.e. Financial sector organizations need to maintain all all their customer transaction documents for the defined number of years depending on the country law.)
  • Meet records/documents keeping responsibilities for federal, state, local and international regarding taxation, personal issues controlled by government and industry specific regulations.
  • Certain documents may have higher operational, fiscal, legal and historical values and therefore need to maintain due to the value of record/documents.
  • To manage the cost of records/documents by managing file space and materials, managing cost of finding records and meet disaster recovery requirements of the organization.