Lorinda.... in response to your question, I'd say that "it depends".
Vendors have sold solutions that they may refer to as Electronic
Document Management systems, as Content Management or Enterprise Content
Management solutions... and those may well include BOTH imaging and
electronic document management capabilities.  Some do have a records
management component, and some do not.  Some of those with records
management components meet the D.O.D. 5015.2 requirements, and some do
not.  .... So, the "it depends" rule tends to apply well here.

What you may or may not find as well with such products is:  web content
management, electronic forms management, collaboration tools and
capabilities, and business process management capabilities..... But
then.... it depends!

Douglas P. Allen, CRM, CDIA+

From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lorinda Kasten-Lowerre
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:34 AM
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Subject: [RM] Document Management

Hi, all,
I may have been laboring under a misapprehension.  Doesn't document
management software manage only images, not born-electronic documents?
And
usually does not have a retention component?

And don't you need a repository-type system or a system for including
retention information in the metadata of born-electronic documents?

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