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Snigdha Mathur
Snigdha Mathur

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Best Cloud Document Management Systems

A cloud document management system is an online tool or service that facilitates the storage and managing of all your documents and information from a single point of contact. In other words, it’s a system that operates in the cloud where you can store all your files and company documents and retrieve them whenever you want from anywhere around the world.

Whereas, Paper documents lead to more chances of error and misplacement as well as additional costs of storing and maintaining file cabinets. Moreover, they are hard to locate and access becomes impossible if your co-workers are working remotely.

Having a cloud document management system installed for your business is a no-brainer. If you are looking for some of the best document management tools out there, don’t worry, we have done the heavy lifting for you!

Alfresco

Next up on our cloud document management systems list is Alfresco, an Enterprise Document Management Tool aimed to streamline your knowledge flow.

Alfresco wants to remove content silos created when we store our documents in different locations (emails, USBs, file sharing sites, etc.) by providing employees a single source of truth for all their knowledge.

OnlyOffice

With the promise of moving your entire office to the cloud, OnlyOffice allows users to upload documents, spreadsheets, or presentations directly to their web app and manage it from the cloud.

Named the best document management system of 2018 by PCmag, OnlyOffice allows you to track changes made to the docs, collaborate in real-time, leave remarks, and access version history.

DocuWare

According to DocuWare, employees spend 50% of their time searching for documents. Docuware provides document management and workflow automation services to reduce this time wastage significantly and help employees be more productive.

With advanced document indexing and storage abilities, Docuware makes it easy to access documents, no matter where you are in the world. Being in this space for over 25 years, Docuware knows what they are doing.

Dokmee

Dokmee is another cloud document management system that wants to help you get rid of your document chaos. Simply upload your electronic files and documents to the Dockmee cloud and access it from anywhere from the world and on any device using their mobile apps.

Dokmee has a range of collaboration features like version control, multi-user access, document audit, restrictions, and more.

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maxmarrie

I just read this blog and found it very informative. I am also working on a website that is providing cloud management services and I will try to share this information on that website.