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Summary

Content management is here to stay. The most efficient development environment is one that encourages collaboration among content contributors. The newest document management applications do.

Because traditional, integrated document management (IDM) solutions were designed to “protect” documents and keep content locked up and available to only a privileged few, they have been of little value to organizations with hundreds of contributors who share and collaborate on content creation.

There is a need for collaborative document management (CDM). Without it, there are operational inefficiencies. People create documents on their desktops and email them to each other. Copies of files abound. There is confusion about which version is the “true” ...