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Natee Meepian
The IDC projected in a 2020 report that enterprise data will grow at a 42.2% annual rate over the next two years.
Enterprises have many software systems that manage this data. Two of them that often intersect are document management systems (DMS) and content management systems (CMS). Your enterpriseâs greatest needs will naturally determine the type of system it invests in to manage documents and content, and itâs important to recognize some key differences between these two systems.
âOrganizations that are researching options should be driven by the type of challenge they are trying to address and secondly focus on technologies to address these challenges,â said Edwin Elmendorp, information architect with Kinsmen Group. âIf the core challenge is around the long-term preservation of electronic files, some form of a DMS would be a likely candidate. On the other hand, if the content is more fluid, typically presented on the web, then a