Abstract—During the last few years the circulation of electronic documents has become one of the main elements of information technology (IT) development in the public sector. Governmental institutions implement electronic document management systems, reciprocally exchange digitally signed documents, develop internal and external normative acts and distribute them electronically. However, IT development is as always rapid and document management systems, acquired or created some years ago, not always provide optimal functionality nowadays. This is caused by the rapid spread of mobile technologies. Document management systems which are originally created for usage in stationary and portable computers are not always adaptable for convenient usage in tablet PCs and mobile phones. Thus it is clear that in the near future the main trend of electronic document management will be the adaptation for mobile devices. The main aim of this article is to determine what is the relationship between document management systems and mobile devices and if the main future trend of electronic document management will be adaptation for mobile devices. The results show that mobile devices, though inevitably connected to future development of DMS, can also also cause security breaches.

Index Terms—Electronic document management, document management systems, mobility.

T. Leikums is with the Latvia University of Agriculture, Jelgava, Latvia (e-mail: toms_leikums@programmer.net).

Cite:T. Leikums, "Document Management System Mobility – Main Trend in Future Document Management," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 505-509, 2013.