Legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and Basel II have made regulatory compliance a top priority for many companies. Compliance requires that basic elements supported by features found in document-management solutions bring greater control of documents, especially compared with conventional methods such as fax machines.

This white paper examines fax document-management systems as a foundation for compliance efforts through document workflow, access control, version control and archiving. Topics include:

• Why compliance is a driving force behind enterprise document management
• How to align compliance with business efficiency
• Organizational pervasiveness of fax documents
• Specific compliance challenges of fax documents