April 08, 2004

Document Management for Small Business

Phil Windley nicely summarizes many of the document management options for small organizations.

This is, in my opinion, a real problem space. I've seen document management issues arise in organizations of all sizes, and few of them know what to do about it. What's needed is a tool with the ease-of-use of a file server (drag-n-drop; folders and files), the structure and organization imposed by metadata and controlled vocabularies, and a version control tool that can be used by mere mortals. Make it easy to set up out of the box (just plug in an organization scheme), and you've really got something...