Few organizations successfully deploy document management solutions that truly deliver end-to-end lifecycle management. Oftentimes, users struggle to comply with document management policies and standards. Typically, documents lifecycles will not become automated until documents are officially published or marked as record, which results in only partial application of document management policies.

In response to these issues, Microsoft offers an integrated solution that provides document management for all employees, keeping track of documents from the moment they are created until the moment they are destroyed. This solution allows organizations to adopt and enforce standards enterprise wide and, in addition, lower management costs while reducing corporate risk.

This paper explains how to:

• Manage the full lifecycle of enterprise documents
• Increase IT manageability and efficiency
• Increase adoption through usability
• Integrate and extend document management solutions