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Document management is a critical factor for succes of enterprises and administrations. An integrated information-, management, and retrieval system is the computerized kernel. Therefore, design of such a system is a complex task. Starting point in the book is the analysis of information retrieval systems at present and in the future. Functional characteristics of systems and attributes of information retrieval models are described here. It follows a look at an project -- management of documents with Neue Züricher Zeitung. After that the reader finds requirements to documentation and retrieval systems in the future. Some requirements are: Possibilities to store multi-media documents as like hypertext and hypermedia for unknown time, storage should be based on international standards for data formats, different information retrieval methods should be implemeted, the user interface should allow access to data for users without a high level of skills, too, the system's architecture should be open and distributed one. Using information retrieval system is the subject of next section. First, problems of user interfaces are discussed. The presentation of retrieval results is a major topic. Requirements to development of user interface result from this knowledge on presentation. Related to user interface are tools for information retrieval. That tools are differentiated into tools for searching, administration tools, archives tools. One of the most important subject is related to the structure of documents. Views on documents are helpful to manage all relevant aspects. For electronic documents the author names four views: -- physical view: the implementation of data elements, -- logical view: document's component structure, -- layout view: presentation structures, -- semantic view: content-related structure. After the explanation of views is derived a formalized document model. This model comprises more aspects than the office document architecture ODA. The author proposes SGML as foundation of implementation. Doing this, the physical view is like a SGML declaration. The logical view is described by means of document type definition DTD. A separate specification is needed for layout. The semantic view is represented by means of document's content plus markups. Next section contains a deeper explanation of retrieval methods. Two groups are called: -- formalized, -- unrestricted. Methods of indexing and matching are investigated. The possibilities to find out documents related to the seek question are listed and are explained in detail. The author develops an architectural proposal for the information retrieval system. The milestones for that architecture are the requirements at the begin of book and the knowledge on information retrieval. Kernel of the architecture is an object oriented document model. Based on the document model are derived components of the information retrieval system. Explanation of functional subsystems is given at the end of the book.