[Sigia-l] DMS vs CMS

[Dave]

Tanya,
the differences are now mute b/c almost every "former" dms vendor is
now a cms vendor and their products are just as good if not better
than the originators of the cms market place.

I.e. Documentum vs. Interwoven ... they both have good CMS offerings.
yes they come to it historically differently, but they are both
Enterprise Content Managment Systems that are robust around XML,
Workflow, and Internationalization (e.g.) ... In the end at this point
it is a question of feature matching and which team can give you
better, longer term support. These products are way expensive at the
enterprise level, so you have to be happy with it for a long time to
come.

What I have learned from this is that the systems that come from DMS
have an advantage at the enterprise level b/c they are better prepared
to take content from teh source (the document) and transpose it into
content for the web (or other information consumption space). Also,
their workflow engines are more robust and scalable.

-- dave

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:52:41 -0400 (EDT), Tanya Rabourn
<tanya at pixelcharmer.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been blissfully ignorant about the world of document
> imaging and document management systems until recently. I'm
> curious to know when it's appropriate to use a DMS as
> opposed to a CMS. I've read a little bit by Bob Boiko and
> Anne Rockley as far as differences and brief history (DMS
> vendors didn't grab the CMS space). However, I'm still left
> without a proper way to advise people as to when they
> shouldn't use a DMS and instead use a CMS (particularly when
> their background is document management so they tend to
> gravitate to DMS's). I personally can't think of why one
> would use a DMS for information sharing within a company
> (which is what's under discussion), but I'm also afraid that
> it's my own background and bias showing. So, can anyone
> explain the utility of a DMS today and when one needs it
> instead of a CMS?
> 
> -Tanya
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