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What is Electronic Document Management?
Posted on Dec 1, 2016
Many businesses, organizations and municipalities are increasingly implementing electronic document management in their offices. It's estimated that by 2021, the enterprise content management market will be worth $66.27b as organizations are finding it more and more difficult to ignore the value of such an investment. "Whoa, hold up, put on the brakes," you say. "What is electronic document management?" Screeeeech. Fair question! The truth is, you're probably already familar with EDM, even if not by name. Developed initially in the 1980s, thousands of organizations today use EDM systems such those from Laserfiche and Digitech Systems. Microsoft's SharePoint is also a common EDM system. EDM often goes by a variety of similar-sounding names and acronyms, such as: Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) Document Management System (DCM) Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) And so on! Basically, if it sounds like an organized place ...
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