Document Management System an integral part of knowledge management.

1. Document Management System
By Sidhartha Sahoo
Sidhartha@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

2. Introduction
A document management system (DMS) is a
computer system (or set of computer
programs) used to track and store electronic
documents and/or images of paper documents
.
It is a computer-based technique for storing
and retrieving documents held in a wide variety
of formats .

3. Why organization need DMS
Businesses generate a tremendous amount of
paper and digital content.
Proposals, contracts, customer profiles,
human resources related documents, financial
reports, forms, announcements are generated
every day.
organizations cannot effectively manage the
vast number of documents without a suitable
Document Management software.