Made in Germany
Even the freeware GPL Edition of this open-source DMS offers full DMS functionality and is permanently free for both personal and commercial use. With the more robust Enterprise Edition—which is also GPL-licensed and therefore free of licensing costs—companies, institutions, and public administration agencies gain access to software for demanding DMS applications where compliance requirements, integration into existing IT environments, customization options, on-premises availability, and prioritized support are particularly important.
bitfarm-Archiv DMS not only implements the electronic archiving of paper and digital documents based on applicable regulations (GoBD, GDPR), but goes far beyond that. With the workflow functions, you can define and control all document-related processes in your company. Escalation levels and substitution rules are just as much a part of this as collaborative work on documents with automatic versioning. Multi-tenancy, independent file creation, specific support for invoice processes (e-invoicing, verification, pre-accounting) and efficient contract management make the DMS a true all-rounder in the corporate environment. Seamless integration with E-Mail, Office, CRM, ERP, Financial Accounting & Co. is a matter of course. But even highly specific requirements can be easily implemented and quickly put into production thanks to the http-API, CSV/XML data exchange, server and client-side scripting.
For bitfarm-Archiv users, the answer to the question, “Where can I find piece of information XY?” is: “In the DMS, of course!” And they can find it in a matter of seconds, even among hundreds of thousands of documents. The process of capturing documents is made as simple as possible for the user. Between 50 and 90 percent of all documents are automatically imported into the digital archive anyway. For the remainder, there are tools such as the tagging assistant, OCR text recognition, sorting and tagging rules, and AI assistance (beta). With bitfarm-Archiv, the days of having to fill out dozens of fields by hand for every document are a thing of the past. 25 years of “Made in Germany,” more than 1,000 satisfied enterprise customers from a wide variety of industries, and countless installations of the GPL version serving users in private settings or small businesses—that, on the other hand, is the history of bitfarm-Archiv. Learn more below.
¹Source: AWV (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für wirtschaftliche Verwaltung // Consortium for economic management)
bitfarm-Archiv document management offers all the functions of a digital archive, document management and enterprise content management system. Some selected functions are already presented here.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) consists of a set of defined processes, strategies and tools that enable a company to effectively acquire, organize, store and share important information with its employees or customers.
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Find out more about the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force in 2018, and the rules it lays down for the protection of personal data.
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A workflow consists of one or more processes, which can run sequentially or simultaneously. Workflows are an integral part of almost every company and enable significant time savings when used correctly.
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bitfarm-Archiv is offered in two versions. The GPL version can be downloaded free of charge for private & commercial use in small companies.
The Enterprise version, on the other hand, offers efficient document management and enterprise content management specifically for use in medium-sized companies, institutions and public authorities.
With the bitfarm-Archiv mobile app, you can take your documents with you wherever you go.
Document Management = Digital administration of documents. Document management includes the creation, processing, distribution and archiving of documents as well as the search for documents.
DMS = According to the definition of the Gabler Business Dictionary, a document management system is a "software package for document management" which, in addition to the standard services, offers additional functions such as simultaneous access to a document by several users, multidimensional classification of individual documents and powerful indexing, as well as the administration and checking of access authorizations.
ECM = Enterprise Content Management is defined by the AIIM as a dynamic combination of strategies, methods and tools that capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information in order to support central organizational processes. It is difficult to draw a clear distinction between an ECM and a modern DMS, as modern document management systems no longer just manage and provide documents, but also content in a wide variety of formats and degrees of structure.
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bitfarm-Archiv applies a new approach to recognizing paper documents and uses Omnipage® OCR , one of the world's leading text recognition systems. Based on this, our product implements a full text search. Thanks to optimized database programming, results are displayed in a matter of seconds, even from hundreds of thousands of documents.
And this is where our slogan comes from: "Don't search - find!" Searching with bitfarm is a pleasure and results are instantly avaiable. And in case full-text search is not sufficient for certain tasks, our software offers extensive possibilities for indexing by using precisely configurable index fields. To ensure that users do not have to bear the costs of maintaining these index fields, rules automate the continuous loading of once learned document types. The data collected with this method can also be processed by other software systems, like corporate accounting or ERP.
The open source DMS bitfarm-Archiv Document Management is now available in GPL version 3.6
bitfarm-Archiv 3.6.2 Enterprise with extended functions such as the new additional table field, grouping functions for data records, a modernized, more flexible interface and many other improvements. Here are some impressions in advance.
The bitfarm client is now also available for iOS and Android on tablets and smartphones, as well as for common browsers.
¹Source: AWV (Working Group for Economic Management ) ²Extrapolation
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