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Existing DMS solutions are too expensive for small and mid-sized businesses. With licenses costing approx. Eur 1,000 per workstation, DMS applications have been out of reach for all but the big corporations. windream, with its patented VFS technology, changes this situation. The technical approach used in developing this system reduced the total cost of development, allowing us to pass the savings on to our customers.
Document Management Systems can be divided into two basic categories: DM systems which run as separate document management applications alongside the document processing programs (non-integrated DMS) and those in which document management functionality is integrated into the operating system.
While information in a file-based system can be saved and retrieved directly from any application program, traditional DMSs required the DMS to be running before documents could be accessed. Document management then takes place in a separate DMS program, and not over a file system. An interface to each application program has to be individually programmed before the DMS program can communicate with them.
Both technical and commercial disadvantages are inherent in such technically linked DMS. For more information on this topic see our DMS Guide.
Considering the disadvantages of both file management and technically linked DMSs, the logical solution is to augment the file management system: the second type of DMS adds DMS functions to the known operating systems file management capabilities. Document management functions are integrated into the operating system using a special file system driver. This file system driver behaves exactly like a normal file system in Windows, but it is logically based on DMS. |
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