[support] Drupal as a simple document management system

[Mohan Radhakrishnan]

Hi,
           I am trying to evaluate some document management solutions
based on these requirements. The problem is that many of these tools
are full-fledged ECM solutions. I think Drupal is one of them.

Is there a way to use Drupal as a simple document management system
based on these requirements ? I will try Drupal if that is what is
recommended but any opinions or comments will also help.

Thanks,
Mohan




Requirements :

We have a systems that receives and generates files and reports with
financial data. These files could reside in the disk or they could be
generated by the system. In the case of files in the disk we need to
specify archival policies that the tool will use to move the files to
its repository. We want to archive the reports generated on-the-fly by
the system by invoking the webservice API of the tool.



We want to associate custom and standard annotations and metadata with
these documents using the tools’ thick or think client or the
WebService API. We also want to retrive and search these documents
using the thick or think client or the WebService API.
Document history is also required.



We want to view these documents in the browser. Some of these
documents could be encrypted on the disk and they have to be decrypted
before viewing. Volume labels should be associated with these document
repositories so that the clients or the API know how to retrieve them
and also support multi-tenancy.