Workflow, Business Process Management and the management of unstructured documents

Workflow , Business Process Management and the management of Unstructured Documents

Plethora of unstructured documents such as text documents , spreadsheets images , XML components , videos , podcasts , email messages that exists around in a large enterprise and it represents the enterprise 's information assets

The problem is that in today 's competitive environment there is an ever increasing generation and use of unstructured electronic documents . It has become highly imperative that there has to be an enterprise wide lifecycle management of these documents which can enable the workers to access the documents in

a relative business context

Many product companies and experts dealing in the area of content management and business process management have proposed that a semantic relation is to be derived between documents and business domain . Thus the semantic network that eventually gets formed will result in efficient search and filtering of these unstructured documents

Types of data : Structured and unstructured data

People use and create unstructured data on daily basis . Although they may not be aware , people create , store , retrieve unstructured data in the form of emails , word documents , excel spreadsheets and other forms The unstructured content has no data type as such so it requires human intervention to tag the data with some relevant keywords and meta tags so that it can be read by machines and applications

Structured data is also being used by people and such data is easily managed by technology being allowed for querying and reporting as the data type is predetermined and relationships are...