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To create contents, documents and their components for various digital media is a complex network of three basic kinds of resources: interactive human work at design workstations, networked communications between the stages of production and, finally, the control of powerful output devices, printing systems and network delivery tools. There are very few vendor-neutral tools to configure and control the workflow. The basic level is to capture the production data from the subsystems. Another layer is needed to connect the subsystems to transport the captured data for analysis, monitoring and database reporting. There are some early examples of global production management databases and workflow software which are briefly reviewed. The risk of configuring a monolithic and unique solution for production management is obvious. Recommendations and policies are made to guide the system approaches for scaleable workflow and production control.