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Konica Minolta Australia has entered into a new partnership agreement with FileBound, one of Australia’s leading providers of document management solutions. The partnership is in line with Konica Minolta’s core strategy to boost its integrated software services, combining print management and document workflow software solutions.

Australian IT services company OBS  has announced it is adopting the RecordPoint  records management platform for SharePoint in place of its in-house i5 solution, which it will no longer market.  

Ediscovery and data analysis firm Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, has formed a technology partnership with Cellebrite, a global provider of mobile data extraction, decoding and analysis solutions. 

Australian audiovisual digitisation agency  DAMsmart has been appointed by the National Library Board of Singapore to digitise a 2-inch Quad and 1-inch B video collection for the National Archives of Singapore.

Enterprise social software vendor NewsGator Technologies has announced the appointment of Steven Baker as Senior Sales Executive for Australia and New Zealand, based in Sydney. 

Organisations on average manage two or more Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management (DM) or Records Management (RM) systems according to a new survey conducted by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). Even with multiple systems in place, approximately half of content is held in non-ECM/DM systems, and a stunning 82 percent of firms lack an enterprise-wide ECM solution.

It is important to note that some forms pose greater challenges over others, particularly those that are unstructured in nature.  Not all forms are good candidates for OCR and ICR, but often these forms can be changed or redesigned slightly so that information from them can be more easily recognized.

Even with iPhones, iPads, and other digital devices, forms, applications, cheques and documents are still widely used to collect data. While obtaining and leveraging this information from forms is a critical business differentiator, getting the data from documents continues to be a challenge, for many organisations, even in our digital age.

An information management policy clearly lays out what kind of data should be kept, what kind should be deleted and establishes a sound, objective method to apply to company-wide data. So, how do you get started? The following steps can provide a basic guide for setting up your information management policy.

Enterprise search has a new contender with a group of ex-Google employees promising "a new playbook for the C-suite and IT managers focused on data as an asset critical to their corporate success."

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