Hi Guys!@!@

I need some recommendations for an EDMS, currently using Kordil, but it sucks.
I'm half way decided on writing my own but before I sink too much time into it I thought I'd see what others are using

I'm happy to buy commercial software if someone can recommend me a product that you use successfully, but I'm hesitant to drop coin on a product that I can't test first ..

fire away!

Would Google docs do what you want?

nah Google Docs isn't really up to the task, part of the specification is that you can do version control, source control etc
for example you might have a document you produce in word but send to people in PDF so they can't edit it, you need to be able to upload the source (doc) & final (pdf) copy into the one file container

Sharepoint is what the other side are using
we're setting this EDMS up to take their documents, they use sharepoint .. but we hate it - it will be a last resort

Documentum.

Let me know if you need contacts.

we use trim, i wouldn't recommend it but it sounds like it would do what you want. i don't like it because its been set up to stop you being able to save your documents normally in office, which ends up being a pain in the arse.

The thought you will get a quality product with great support/service that is able to do all you need out of the box that is also open source is a very naive thought.

The thought you will get a quality product with great support/service that is able to do all you need out of the box that is also open source is a very naive thought.

first of all, this .. coming from you? hahaha

secondly, we don't need any support at all - we're a bunch of developers that have no extra time right now and this bit of kit doesn't need to tie in with anything else we've got deployed, so I was hoping there might be something already written that I can just quickly deploy

@Dazhel, We only require the EDMS functions, we have no real need for a full blown CMS
Something more like this - http://www.opendocman.com/ - But I need something that is fully (or close to) ISO 9000 compliant

I'll check out Documentum, if it doesn't work we're just going to have to write our own

Thanks for the input!

I'll be interested to see what you find; I've been curious about this for a while because we just dump everything in poorly organised Windows shares and it's a fucking nightmare trying to find anything.

its just like you are using sharepoint!

lol @ spook with the sharepoint hate.

Teq - drop me a pm with some of your requirements - I've just started working for a new company and their DMS might be of interest.
It also has a completely open API as well as integration kits for products like sharepoint.

One of the dev guys at work is working on a sharepoint version at the moment pm me if you want

Have a look at http://www.alfresco.com/ I liked some of it's features and it's open source

I made something similar for a lead management system ages ago, it was very strait forward...

page for user to upload document
page for user to search/browse indexed documents
> click document
> select version - doc - pdf etc
> option to email > mass mail > print

Took me about 2 days to get working properly.. it was all web based as a lot of staff were working remotely... I went through the same problem though, all the open source stuff was very clunky and packed full of useless features... in the end it turned out to be faster to make something simple instead of ripping out features from an open source project and modifying the ones I wanted.

I know this isn't particularly helpful but I thought I'd share my experiences with a similar situation where it turned out faster to start from scratch.

I work at a non profit and we use http://www.alfresco.com/

we use eroom, but i think sharepoint is better - google wave + google docs would have been interesting to look at.