INDUSTRY INSIDER

04.11.14
Get on the right side of the Privacy Act

Sweeping privacy reforms that came into effect on the 12 March 2014 are the most significant changes to the Privacy Act 1988 since it came into force 25 years ago.  The 13 new Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) regulate the handling of personal information by the Australian Government and businesses with an annual turnover of more than $3 million. 

04.11.14
Dropbox means business

Online storage and collaboration service Dropbox has officially launched its Dropbox for Business service, provising users with two different online storage compartments: one for personal use, and one for professional.

04.11.14
Objective Connect comes to HP TRIM

Objective Corporation has broadened the reach of its cloud file sharing platform, Objective Connect, to users of the HP TRIM EDRMS.

04.11.14
Sunshine state switches to Office365

Office365 is being deployed to almost 150,000 government employees in Queensland, in a deal that that is expected to shave $A13.7 million off Microsoft licensing costs over three years.

04.11.14
Vendor ‘confusion’ hinders collaboration uptake

A new study by information management analysts AIIM, concludes that business leaders see collaboration as ‘crucial,’ but are confused by the rapid convergence of tools.

04.11.14
Why you need to know about Entities

For information management (IM) professionals, entity relationship modelling has become a necessary skill set.

04.03.14
50% of businesses still rely on paper-based payment processes

50 percent of businesses still use paper-based payment processes, missing out on the efficiency, cash management and process visibility benefits of automated systems, according to global research* commissioned by ASG Software Solutions.

04.03.14
A new view of workflow

Pieter van Schalkwyk is serious about helping businesses do better at getting process work done. That's the official motto of XMPro, the company he founded and is now running as CEO. IDM sat down with Pieter to ask what the company is doing to take its own flavour of workflow software and methodology to the world. Initially founded in Sydney, XMPro now has offices and customers in the US and UK, and has recently opened its US HQ in Dallas.

04.03.14
Basware win $NZ4M e-invoicing deal

Basware has been awarded a $NZ4 million contract with a leading New Zealand construction company to deliver accounts payable automation and e-invoicing services. 

04.03.14
Beware of the information zombies

We all know them. We’re all scared of them. Information zombies. Time-munching, brain cell-crunching clutter of undead information. Information that simply won’t stay dead but comes back to haunt us on a daily basis.

04.03.14
Is OneDrive for Business the SharePoint alternative?

OneDrive for Business is Microsoft’s file sync, share and collaboration service. It used to be part of Office 365, but that has now changed.

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BREAKING NEWS

04.11.14
ABBYY unveils FineReader 12 Corporate

ABBYY has announced the availability of FineReader 12 Corporate, the next generation of its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solution.

04.11.14
DocuWorks 8 takes to the cloud

Fuji Xerox Australia has unveiled new document handling software for small and medium sized businesses, DocuWorks 8, providing a portal to documents held on a local network or in Working Folder, Fuji Xerox’s cloud storage solution.

04.11.14
Migrating email to Office365

Metalogix has unveiled a new release of Email Migrator 3.0 which adds the addition of Office365 to other hosted Exchange platforms and on-premises implementations of Exchange.

04.11.14
NovoImage+ speeds up document capture

Advanced pattern recognition and analytics technologies are behind the promised ability of NovoDynamics’ NovoImage+ software to deliver foolproof document capture.

04.11.14
Perceptive's end-to-end business Evolution

Lexmark’s Perceptive Software has unveiled the fruits of its two-year buying spree of software companies targeting the $US7 billion global Enterprise Content Management Market, with the launch of Perceptive Evolution and Perceptive Content 7. 

04.11.14
Smartlogic tackles the Semantic Web

Smartlogic has announced the release of Semaphore 3.7, an update to its auto-classification software that improves information extraction capabilities. 

04.11.14
Snowbound Software enhances VirtualViewer HTML5

The VirtualViewer HTML5 document viewer has been enhanced with mew mobile capabilities, along with keyboard shortcuts, text extraction, and metadata functionality in version 3.4.

04.11.14
WordPerfect Office X7 adds iPad app

Corel has updated the WordPerfect Office X7 suite with new features including PDF Forms, MacroManager and Mail Merge Expert, while a new WordPerfect iPad app lets users create, edit and view WordPerfect documents on their iPad.

04.03.14
K2 for SharePoint 2013 unveiled

Specifically built to work with SharePoint 2013, K2 for SharePoint is a new tool for building and running business applications within SharePoint -- using forms, workflow, data and reports.

04.03.14
Microsoft Outlook coming to Android

Android users can look forward to an official Microsoft mail client released later this year, following on from the launch of the Outlook Web App (OWA) for iPhone and iPad last year. Office365 users in particular will look forward to an Android client that offers Exchange ActiveSync support.

04.03.14
Nuance adds Power PDF bundle

Nuance Communications has launched a new suite of tools to create, manage, share, and secure PDF files, known as Nuance Power PDF.

04.03.14
SharePoint PDF Document Converter

PortalFront Tru Apps has announced a new “Convert to PDF” feature in SharePoint and Office 365.

03.27.14
Copy & Paste fills SharePoint gap

PortalFront Tru Apps has release an enhanced app for SharePoint called Tru Copy & Paste which works with SharePoint Online (Office 365) and on premise SharePoint 2013 installations. It enhances the usability of SharePoint by providing the users the ability to move files between folders, document libraries and sites directly within the browser similar to the traditional copy and paste feature found in Windows. 

03.27.14
Denying the EDRMS donkey vote

The problem of “donkey classification” in electronic document and record management systems (EDRMS) is common, where users select the first presented disposal class for a document, irrespective of its content, or always use the same class.

03.27.14
Esker unveils on-demand e-purchasing solution

Esker has launched a new on-demand E-Purchasing solution to automate the entire purchase-to-pay cycle — from purchase requisition to vendor invoice payment authorisation.

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