Paper Vs. Electronic: Why It Is More Than A DMS?

So we spoke in the previous blog, What is this TMF you speak of?, how the TMF is a set of documents collected over the course of the trial, from the initial setup all the way to close out. This is something that can be 9 months or 5 years. I also spoke about how the number of documents can reach dizzying heights in regards to what is collected and stored.

For those of you new to this industry you may not realize this, but you know those grey metal filing cabinets, or those really old wobbly shelves kept in a locked room? That is where the TMF used to be kept. All of those documents had to be stored somewhere and it had to be in a central place which had at least some level of security. What this ultimately meant was there was a room designated as document storage for the purpose of live in use data.