Document Management in India

It's always interesting to get a look at what you're industry is doing in foreign markets. I keep extremely close tabs on news within the document management world here in the states, but every once and awhile some info pops up on trends in the UK or Asia, and today there's a great article on the state of the industry in India. The Indian website, NetworkComputing, has an excellent Q & A running on their site with a leading professional. In it he discusses the DM trends within the Indian business world, as well as what seems to be driving those trends.

From NetworkComputing:

Companies in India are phasing out conventional imaging solutions and adopting one vendor approach that can help consolidates their content and tag compliance based document lifecycle. They are looking out for a software solution where digital rich media, user desktop folder, office communication, customer documents and also digitized customer papers are stored in a searchable robust eFolder. Another trend is data archival, which otherwise was untapped by Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors or the older imaging solution providers. The financial services and telecom industries have already started to deploy enterprise content management solutions primarily because of the large volumes of data they have to secure and update. Now, even the government and manufacturing sectors are realizing the need to automate and access their content.