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DMS Matter-Centric Architecture Update: One Year Later

Modern Document Management Systems (DMS) provide ways of creating structures for organizing content that go beyond old-fashioned 'folders.' 'WorkSpaces' can contain folders (static containers for content) and stored searches (dynamic, predefined ways of finding current content that meets specific search criteria) organized under 'Tabs.' Security and metadata (document-specific profile information) can be assigned to different levels of the structure, and lower levels can be set to 'inherit' higher-level security and metadata values.<br>In a law firm environment, it is natural, considering the way matters are handled and taking into account important business processes (including new matter opening procedures and records management requirements), that each matter be allocated a WorkSpace ' leading to the 'Matter-Centric' architectural paradigm.

11 minute readJanuary 26, 2007 at 04:02 PM
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David E. Kiefer
DMS Matter-Centric Architecture Update: One Year Later

Modern Document Management Systems (DMS) provide ways of creating structures for organizing content that go beyond old-fashioned 'folders.' 'WorkSpaces' can contain folders (static containers for content) and stored searches (dynamic,

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