In your first two sentences you are essentiall describing an imaging
system; which can house and manage  imaged (from hated paper) documents,
as well as source native electronic documents.  An EDMS system has a lot
of capabilities for electronic docs; check in/check out; collaborative
review and update, etc.  An EDMS can also house imaged documents. 
Either can be tied to retention policy systems, tables & capabilities.

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

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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?

Thanks,
Lorinda Kasten-Lowerre
Records Management Analyst, Senior
American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Torrance, California, USA
Member - The Orange County Chapter of ARMA International
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