Most document management applications group documents by folders. Abox ECM differs from other platforms because of its powerful file manager, which allows an exhaustive control of any procedure by grouping documents and treating the whole as a document unit.

The file is the centre of document management. An electronic file is the documentary representation of a process and, as such, must store all the contents of that process, control the way and order in which they are loaded to the tool.

Abox ECM allows advanced management of files, as a composite document unit, as well as independent management of the documents they contain.

There are electronic records for a multitude of business processes:

• Shopping
• Invoicing
• Project
• Employment records
• Medical records
• Petitions, complaints and claims
• Suppliers, customers and others
• Vehicles, equipment and other machinery
• Procedures for clients or citizens
• Missionary Processes
• And many more…

Some of the fundamental features of the files are:

• Powerful classification capacity, not only of documentary series (file types), but also of documentary types.
• Control of document types, document entry requirements, order, number and typology can be predetermined.
• Automatic control of the progress of the procedure.
• Metadata unique to the process and inherited from other activities.
• On-line content viewer, multi-format, text or multimedia, fully integrated, no need for downloads.
• Security features, such as locks, certified locks (indexes) and archiving.
• Possibility to integrate with workflows (BPM), process modeling, assignment and supervision of tasks, total automation of document management actions.
• Association with the document classification table and possibility of internal organisation by sub-files and sub-folders.