WF and eDMS

[Griffiths, Mark]

>From a limited read of some white papers you could get from the SAP Service
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Marketplace - http://service.sap.com - Records Management is a much bigger
application than DMS - the idea is to collect together folders of
information about something and that information could include scanned
images, electronic documents, business objects from different SAP systems,
workflow logs etc. etc.
 
As far as I can see Records management does not replace DMS (in fact I think
it probably uses it) but builds on it.
 
For your application with finance documents you don't really need DMS or
Records Managment but an ArchiveLink solution which directly links scanned
images to your finance documents and utilises standard workflows to help you
with this.  It is possible to do this using SAP's K-PRO and Content Server
with some sort of scanning software, however traditionally customers tend to
use third party document storage products such as IXOS, FileNet, Easy etc.
etc. - you can find a full list of certified archivelink complementary
solutions if you search around in the SAP service marketplace.
 
Hope this information clears up a few points,
 
Cheers,
 
Mark
 
SAP UK
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gonzalez Cartagena, Cristian A.
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Sent: 25/06/02 02:12
Subject: WF and eDMS
 
Hi WFers,
 
We have been requested to implement a SAP Electronic document management
system, integrating it with SAP Workflow for the approval of some
FI-related
documents (for example, customer invoices).
Our choices are DMS and Records Management (RMS). We have to select one
of
them.
 
We have some experience with DMS. Do you have any idea about the
advantages
of using Records Management (starting with Web Application Server 6.10).
Will Records Management replace DMS?
 
Thanks in advance..
 
Cristian