The categories of DocTalk.net

Referring to the complete document cycle defined by AIIM, which basically combines the entire IT world under the generic name "Enterprise Content Management" (even a webpage is somewhat a document), the categories at DocTalk.net were defined according to creation, processing and archiving of classic business mail, which is still often paper-based (although this is changing).

The borders are quite fluent. Many products offer and must offer "a bit of everything", as only the integration of several key items provides a comprehensive product. However, basic categorization is required to maintain the overview in the catalog:

Input Management
contains products focusing on input processing, such as e.g. document scanners or OCR software to recognize and identify contents.

Enterprise Content Management / Document Management
contains products focusing on processing of imported documents, such as e.g. product suites for indexing, provision in networks or short-term archiving.

Process management
What would the world be without workflows? Of course, the document life cycle, especially in high-volume processing, does require clear but still very flexible processing rules.

Output management
Beside smoothly running input management, the product group most impressive for laymen, concerns the creation, conversion and sending of paper-bound or increasingly electronic documents.

Storage
The storage category contains products focusing on long-term archiving, historically called COLD  (= Computer Output on Laserdisc). Products with powerful short-term archiving, such as database systems, can be found here as well.

Development
Everything, which simplifies documents and document process development, from analysis tools to quality management products.