On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:31, Thorsten Schöning <tschoening_at_am-soft.de> wrote:
> Guten Tag Laura Mohiuddin,
> am Mittwoch, 14. März 2012 um 17:32 schrieben Sie:
>
>> My company IBCS-PRIMAX Software (BD) Ltd. (http://www.ibcs-primax.com) is
>> looking to install a Document Management System for the organization. I
>> suggested SVN[...]
>
> Sounds like a bad idea to me. While Subversion ma ybe capable of
> versioning all your content and even deliver authorization and access
> facilities, DMS's provide much more: Configurable processes and
> workflows, document format conversion for example to PDF, tagging of
> documents, preview for documents, clients/integration for different
> purposes like Sharepoint, Office et.c and some even collaboration on
> authoring documents. You may don't need all this now, but for future
> development in you company in my opinion it would be better to start
> with a real DMS right now. Subversion may be better suited for some
> kind of backend storage. There are lot of free DMS out there.
I have to agree. I currently use Subversion to manage a bunch of MS
Office files - project management documentation, technical docs, etc.
It works, but it's far from optimal and really only works well for the
more technical people in the audience. This means that the business
folks still get documents emailed to them when they need them, instead
of going to any kind of portal to find & collaborate on documents on
their own.
Use a system that's built for the job. This is not an area where
Subversion shines, but it's also not designed to be a DMS in the first
place.
Received on 2012-03-15 01:43:02 CET