What Is An Electronic Document Management System?

What is the Digital Imaging Group (DIG)?

What are the Project Levels within DIG?

Imaging technology is being used in many sectors of the economy to improve efficiency and cut down on the volume of paper that is processed and stored. For example, many companies use imaging software to store images of invoices and accounts payable records. Other companies store customer records. Utilities store copies of customer bills to comply with regulatory requirements. Government bureaus store copies of tax records. Insurance companies store copies of claims documents. In all cases, the use of imaging software cut down on storage space (i.e. eliminating rooms full of filing cabinets), made the retrieval of documents a much quicker process, and made sharing of documents possible.

The Digital Imaging Group, known as 'DIG', was established in January 2002 within the Office of Data Administration. DIG is a unique consortium of campus units working together to implement digital imaging at the University of Maryland. Their common objectives are to increase the use of an electronic document management system to simultaneously reduce the mountain of paper currently being collected and the time required to process it.

• View the Functional Structure of DIG.
• View the Membership and Implementation Status document. This document includes University membership in the consortium.

DIG uses Optix product as its cross-platform, web-enabled, document management system. Optix is comprised of various modules. View a diagram of the Optix Modules.

• View detailed Optix information for each of the modules.

DIG is setup to include four project levels. The project levels are referred to as evolution stages within the document management system implementation.