So an apple is red ; and fire-engines are red; so apples can put out fires? !! SharePoint is NOT an EDRMS but that doesn’t mean it cannot manage paper records!

Content types allow for a much wider range of content and markers for content – that can be in separate or shared repositories

To hold and manage paper records is mostly “out of the box” with SharePoint. This is an order of magnitude better than the use of spreadsheets, Word tables, and paper registers that we see is the predominant technique. If you want very sophisticated processes and functionality, then you may need software development.

Yes, it can do this through content types – thus allowing document libraries to be part of the classification and separating active (open) from inactive files (see diagram below). The new 2010 version also allows the physical location to be managed server wide as hierarchical metadata. Document sets functionality allows easy handling of record aggregations.

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