Proprietary Document Management Systems

The following documents and records should be reviewed as appropriate, and observations noted. Some of these documents may not be available as they can contain proprietary information for other clients. Place emphasis on determining whether the toller has established procedures and a management system adequate to ensure ongoing compliance. 

The simplest document type to manage. Typically created in word processor, it consists only of characters belonging to the ASCII or ANSI sets (text and some symbols). Such documents can be viewed by the word processor program itself or a file viewer program in most systems. Many proprietary formats exist but the most popular have become de facto standard formats. 

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