The key features and benefits of the application are:
- Organize and share electronic documents – BCG DMS provides for a much more tight and intuitive integration between Microsoft Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007.
- Quick access to recent documents – DMS provides for a launch pad that displays the most recent documents that were created or modified by the user increasing productivity and interaction with documents.
- User Definable Metadata – DMS is user configurable to allow the organization to categorize documents based on industry specific or the unique needs of the organization. These categories include the ability have pick lists and look up searches for validation and consistency thus maximizing the productivity of employees’ ability to search and organize these documents.
- Email Documents – DMS provides extends the ability of SharePoint to allow users to not only e-mail a link to a specific document but also to send a copy along with user definable descriptive subject and comments. Critical for when you need to send a document to someone outside of your organization.
- Comprehensive Search – DMS capitalizes on the power of SharePoint’s textual search capabilities by allowing users to quickly locate and work with documents based on the metadata associated with the document as well as the contents of the document. An easy to use search form displays the organizations predefined metadata categories taking search to a new level.
- User manageable file access security – DMS extends the rich capabilities for document permissions by allowing the end user through an easy to use interface the ability to select appropriate access rights for their document. This eliminates the dependency of the IT staff on managing these security settings and allows the user community to control who can perform operations on files they create.
- Quick Folders – DMS provides for a comprehensive capability to organize common or related documents into a user definable view for quick access based on the security roles established. These quick folders allow managers or administrative staff to create links to associated documents and organize the folders in a hierarchical view.




