Document management as a service are internet-accessible platforms for managing and structuring important information and documents. As a result, these services help companies to increase productivity, facilitate the retrieval of documents, support versioning and guarantee 24/7 access. In most cases, the services include automatic classification, attribution, data encryption, annotation possibilities, workflow mapping, version tracking and in some cases, full-text indexing. This enables end-to-end consistency of documentation across the value chain and even across companies.