Contemporary approaches to the management of electronic documents and digital information

Abstract

Modern business and new economy impose the necessity of implementation of information technology to business systems to facilitate the implementation of business processes in a network environment, rapid response to customer requirements, effective business process changes caused by changes in the business environment. In these circumstances, digital information is becoming the most important asset in business, management, decision-making, communication. The greatest amount of »valuable« information is located in the business documents that are often in paper form. Using modern approach to managing documents and information, organizations translate their documents into the digital world. Implementation of the system for electronic document management provides an effective way of their digitization, storage, search and reuse. Downloading data from these documents, the implemented system creates a database and knowledge base that become a powerful support in a turbulent and competitive market.