eGov-July-2010-[32-35]-Turbo Charging Digital Governments

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TECHNOLOGY

document management system

Turbo Charging

digital Governments DMS solutions drastically cut the documentation time and make availability of citizen services a matter of few clicks only By Gayatri Maheshwary

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n the recent years, transition to electronic management of documents has been very rapid. Concepts like digital asset management, document imaging, and workflow and records management systems have gained momentum. Document management system (DMS) makes use of such concepts and it is fast emerging as an effective tool in facilitating e-Governance initiatives. One of the key objectives of DMS is to simplify the access and management of information in a cost-effective manner, while saving time and space. With the technology driving government-to-government (G2G) and government-to-citizen (G2C) services in a big way, government departments and agencies have a plethora of digital asset to store, manage and retrieve for future reference. DMS comes handy for the purpose.

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DMS for all n  Centralised storage system n  Searchable documents and designs n  Approval process to control document update/additions n  Version controlling of documents n  Online submission of document request n Reporting


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