La funzionalità di ADAM Core sono state disegnate sulle regole generali del record management, della gestione documentale e sulle specifiche esigenze della normativa italiana sulla registrazione dei documenti (protocollo), dei fascicoli elettronici e degli archivi.

• Distributed architecture, federated DRM systems.
• Centralized configuration and administration
• Stress test and document base generator included
• Document, attachment, folder and record management.
• Full versioning. Every element (document or document container) stored in ADAM Core is versionable and every update creates a new version. Thus a full document history is managed by ADAM Core without any effort from the application
• Metadata and content full text indexing (fields and full text search)
• Checkin, checkout
• Audit trail
• Access control list, hierarchical security, retention schedule support
• Import & export