Figure 11.1 The overlap of DMS and PDM functions. © 2003 Crnkovic, Asklund, Persson Dahlqvist, ”Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management” DMS Version management PDM Workflow Data storage Configuration management Content management Document life cycle Importing documents

Figure 11.2 Document life cycle and basic DMS functions. © 2003 Crnkovic, Asklund, Persson Dahlqvist, ”Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management” CreateImportUpdatePublishView Archive DMS Library services Remove Data storage Long term storage

Figure 11.3 Document container as a unique document. © 2003 Crnkovic, Asklund, Persson Dahlqvist, ”Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management” Document container graph text spreadsheet Text processor Graph generator Spreadsheet program Component integration technology User’s view