Document Management Basics

Learn the basics of electronic document management systems (EDMS) and in particular the implementation of document management in SharePoint.

EDRMS: The difference between documents and records

Learn what electronic document and records management (EDRM) is and what the main differences are between documents and records.

Components of an Electronic Document Management System

Learn what the basic components are of an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) and in what form SharePoint makes these components available for document management.

Defining document types and metadata in an EDRMS

Learn what steps you must take to go from analyzing documents to defining metadata that can be used to index and categorize documents, and then later on to search and retrieve documents.

Defining folder structures in an EDRMS

Learn what folders are used for in document management and what types of folder structures you can create in an EDRMS.

Defining and using workflows (BPM) in EDM

Learn what you can use workflow for in an EDRMS and what steps to take when defining workflow for an EDRMS.