<< Doesn't document
management software manage only images, not born-electronic documents?
And
usually does not have a retention component?>>

None of my previous positions included imaging as a major component
(lucky me), therefore native electronic format documents were the "it"
to be managed. It shouldn't matter to an EDMS what file format you are
managing (.pdf, .gif, .bmt, .doc, .xls. etc). But you are right about
the retention applications. ECMs, EDMSs, or whatever, many times are
built of separate modules, retention application being one of them.

Thomas Love, CRM
 
Valero Energy Corp.
One Valero Way
E2-198E
San Antonio TX 7 8249
210 345 3718
 

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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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