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It provides a framework to overcome today's DIM constraints
Integrated Document and Output Management (IDOM) provides an organizational and technological framework in which to overcome the constraints of today's limited document management capabilities. The major focus of mOM lies with production imaging, workflow and document management software, hardcopy output production (including distributed print and distributed output management), and paper reduction strategies that include network "browsers" and application tools for document output.
An Automated Document Factory (ADF) is a high-performance, high-end document delivery infrastructure that provides a seamless mechanism for input, management, and output of documents throughout the organization. ADFs provide enterprise document management in a consistent, high-performance manner. The ADF objective is the ability to take any form of document, in any volume, and to output this document or container of documents to any form of output process including any form of distribution, storage or printing. With the ADF, the management and scheduling of such processes is to a large extent automated, just as it has become in any other type of factory. The ADF is the document production equivalent of computer- integrated manufacturing (CIM). As such it aims to speed up and render efficient the organizational production of documents in high volumes.
What do we mean by "high volume" in the context of an ADF? In classical document management we tended to handle document transactions in the tens of thousands per day, possibly even the hundreds of thousands. In the ADF we are handling document transactions in the millions per day.
ADFs differ from traditional document management in several ways. When speaking of traditional management, we mean a document creation, retrieval, delivery and archival system that is generally composed of a few key elements-and focuses on creation and input. These elements are:
* Imaging-the ability to capture and display images digitally.
* Information Retrieval-allows for the location and retrieval of previously archived documents of varying types.
* Workflow-the movement of documents within and through business processes in an efficient way in order to improve productivity and customer service.
Traditional document management is designed for white collar, knowledgebased workers. ADFs go beyond this to include what could be termed the "blue collar" aspects of document production which is characterized by large-scale production and distribution...