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title: "Document Management Systems and WORM: How DMS and Archive Work Together"
date: 2026-04-14T11:05:00+02:00
author: FAST LTA
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An audit-proof archiving system requires two components:

1. Document management system (DMS): capture, metadata, workflow, search
2. WORM (Write Once Read Many) hardware archive: immutability, long-term storage

DMS responsibilities: Capture, indexing, search, workflow, approval. WORM responsibilities: Immutable storage, long-term integrity, long-term retrieval.

Compatible DMS systems: d.velop, ELO, DocuWare, SER, windream, OpenText. Integration: Silent Cubes are provided as a network share via CIFS/NFS; the DMS writes to the archive like to any other storage target.

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### Further Resources [\#](#further-resources "Further Resources")

→ Audit-Proof Archiving Guide (/en/blog/revisionssicherheit-leitfaden/) → WORM Storage Fundamentals (/en/blog/worm-speicher-grundlagen/) → Silent Cubes: Hardware WORM Archive Storage (/en/produkte/silent-cubes/)

### WORM

WORM (Write Once, Read Many) refers to a storage principle in which data is written once and can technically no longer be altered or deleted — in hardware WORM, this immutability is a physical property of the storage controller, independent of software, operating system or user privileges.

[Mehr erfahren →](https://www.fast-lta.de//en/glossary/worm)

### Audit-Proof Archiving

Audit-proof archiving describes the legally required property of an archiving system that preserves documents completely, immutably, traceably and accessibly at all times — and that this can be demonstrated without gaps to tax authorities, auditors and data protection supervisory bodies.

[Mehr erfahren →](https://www.fast-lta.de//en/glossary/audit-proof-archiving)

### WORM

WORM (Write Once, Read Many) refers to a storage principle in which data is written once and can technically no longer be altered or deleted — in hardware WORM, this immutability is a physical property of the storage controller, independent of software, operating system or user privileges.

[Mehr erfahren →](https://www.fast-lta.de//en/glossary/worm)

### WORM

WORM (Write Once, Read Many) refers to a storage principle in which data is written once and can technically no longer be altered or deleted — in hardware WORM, this immutability is a physical property of the storage controller, independent of software, operating system or user privileges.

[Mehr erfahren →](https://www.fast-lta.de//en/glossary/worm)

### WORM

WORM (Write Once, Read Many) refers to a storage principle in which data is written once and can technically no longer be altered or deleted — in hardware WORM, this immutability is a physical property of the storage controller, independent of software, operating system or user privileges.

[Mehr erfahren →](https://www.fast-lta.de//en/glossary/worm)

### WORM

WORM (Write Once, Read Many) refers to a storage principle in which data is written once and can technically no longer be altered or deleted — in hardware WORM, this immutability is a physical property of the storage controller, independent of software, operating system or user privileges.

[Mehr erfahren →](https://www.fast-lta.de//en/glossary/worm)