A Document Management System (DMS) is a software solution that helps organizations store, manage, and track electronic documents and images of paper-based documents. It facilitates efficient document organization, collaboration, and security by centralizing storage and providing tools for indexing, searching, and access control.

Document management is one of the precursor technologies to content management, and not all that long ago was available solely on a standalone basis like its imaging, workflow, and archiving brethren. It provides some of the most basic functionality to content management, imposing controls and management capabilities onto otherwise “dumb” documents. This makes it so that when you have documents and need to use them, you are able to do so. Some of the key features in document management include