document management system
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software that provides an automated way to store, manage and track electronic documents
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Encyclopedic overview
A document management system (DMS) is usually a computerized system used to store, share, track and manage files or documents. Some systems include history tracking where a log of the various versions created and modified by different users is recorded. The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management systems. It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management (ECM) systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems and records management systems.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “document management system” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.