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Nowadays companies have to deal with a huge number of documents. These documents can variety from accounting, legal paper work and technical documentation. A great amount of the company’s resources have to be allocated to manage documents. However, computer software has made this job much easier and also less costly. This software is called Document Management Software. So you have to choose proper things for your business.

Here the features of a good Document Management System —
• A good document management system has to maintain a warehouse for the electronic documents.
• It must have a searching option for searching the documents.
• It must have use logical archive and physical archive for document and information storage.
• It must have a workflow management to automate the flow of documents and information in the work process.
• It must have the ability to incorporate with other software that used by the company for other purposes.
• It must have the ability to put all the documents into a defined workflow.
• It must use four Ws (Who, What, Where, When) to supply audit data.
• It must have to comply with regulatory requirements such as retention, backup, security, etc.
• It must have to contain technological solutions for electronic capture, indexing and permanent storing of formatted output data (printed pages) in electronic format.
• The check-in and checkout process must be simple and quick.
• The ability of previewing a document before actually checking the document out of the vault is a good of a document management system.
• It must have a useful method for ensuring or checking unauthorized access to documents.
• Document storage system varies from organization to organization. Therefore, a good document management system must be flexible enough and customizable enough to suite an organization’s needs.
• An organization has different departments. Therefore, a DMS must have the ability of interconnecting different departments of the company to store the documents in a central warehouse.

Different software may have different special features but these are the features that are needed for making a document management software a good one.