DLM - Document Lifecycle Management
As a compliance requirement, a careful system of document lifecycle management (DLM) is of crucial importance.
The complete lifecycle of a document - from its creation, to storage and archiving, all the way to disposal - needs a precise audit trail to ensure compliance with auditing requirements. For businesses, and especially today when the flood of electronic documents keeps rising, this need to track documents has become a massive undertaking that requires a great deal of resources. This burden can be eased by turning to PDF for standardization and the PDF/A format for long-term archiving.