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OpenKM

The intelligent platform to centralize, automate, and secure your organization's knowledge

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OpenKM is a document management and enterprise knowledge platform that centralizes repositories, protects confidential information, and streamlines daily operations. It integrates heterogeneous information sources into a single structured repository, with granular role-based access controls, encryption, audit logging, and configurable retention policies to support regulatory compliance.

Features include a BPM engine for automating document approval, review, and distribution, intelligent workflows with notifications, dynamic task assignment, and escalation, plus OCR, OMR, and barcode capture with automatic metadata extraction. The platform offers hierarchical repositories with version control, concurrent-edit locking, and search across content, metadata, and tags. Integrations include REST, CMIS, LDAP, Active Directory, SSO/CAS, MS Office add-ins, and SDKs for Java, .NET, and PHP, with clients for web, iPhone, and Android.

OpenKM is offered in Professional Edition, Cloud, and Community Edition variants, and is available for on-premises deployment on your own servers.

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