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Each document has a specific lifecycle. In most companies, a document crosses over different applications during its life. It is also common to share documents with partners or customers in multiple repositories. Moreover, at the end of the document lifecycle, documents have to be gathered and saved in a Records Management system. Therefore, information and documents have to be easily transferable between repositories. Throughout the document’s life, different technologies are involved, that are not compatible with each other. Content-centric applications are usually heterogeneous: each vendor uses its own technology; each application has a different security model and different metadata model. Sometimes, even the content itself is in a proprietary format. In addition, business and regulatory environments provide rules and requirements that shape technological choices so as to improve corporate compliance. Using a single technology that seamlessly interconnects all content-centric applications and does the daily transfers is an important step towards better compliance and solving day to day users’ problems. Empowering users with the capacity of deciding when to transfer or archive documents they are responsible for, while improving traceability and corporate governance, is an overall improvement for the whole company. |
