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A tool for smart governance DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
With capturing and storage costs so low, widespread adoption of DMS can cut down processing times and boost efficiencies By egov Team
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he volume of unstructured content has significantly risen over the years and continues to do so. This has prompted the need to look beyond traditional content management systems (CMS), which focussed largely on structured content. Inception of Document Management System (DMS) in 1980s provided a great hope for efficient, effective and transparent document management for organisations and institutions. Today’s DMS solutions are capable of handling both structured and unstructured content and are being widely used to track and store paper documents in government organisations as well. DMS is also viewed as a component of enterprise content management (ECM) systems and is related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow and records management systems. The proliferation of smart phones among business users and citizens has further raised the potential of DMS proliferation in the e-Governance space. Over the coming years, cloud-based DMS applications are expected to evolve to fulfil diverse needs of citizens over the mobile devices.
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