Document Management Opinion
The third wave of
document publishing
By Jake Sorofman, senior vice president of marketing & business
development North America and EMEA, JustSystems.
hile documents are Of course, papyrus eventually replaces become electronic, dramatically lowering
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central to what we do stone, ink enters the scene and a guy the barrier for publishing. But as the scale
and how we do it, today, named Guttenberg figures out how to make of document distribution grew, so did the
they’re wholly unfit for the process scale with movable type and a challenge of keep information accurate,
the responsibility we give printing press. Fast forward to the advent of up-to-date and under control. The advent
them – as the container for authoritative the personal computer, and documents of the electronic document was liberating >>
information we can trust. The reality is that
documents are static and disconnected
from authoritative information sources and
key business processes. Documents must
change to keep pace with the growing
demands of business. Let’s start with a brief
history of the evolution of document publishing.
Publishing 1.0 – static
publishing
Early details on the first wave of document
publishing are sketchy; it begins with sticks,
stones and cave drawings. An adaptation of
a cave drawing on a slab of granite was
probably the first portable document, setting
in motion the age of document publishing.
Documents are finally what they were
always meant to be: intelligent applications
dressed in documents’ clothing.
48 IT RESELLER – JUNE 2008
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