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Eric Bussy is VP Product Management & Marketing at Esker, one of the world's leading providers of document automation solutions for inbound and outbound processes ranging from customer and supplier invoices, dispatch notes, sales orders and purchase orders to remittance advices. As the man responsible for the development of products, services and solutions at the multinational, IDM asked him what it’s like to steer a course through such a diverse landscape today where companies need everything from  cloud based data exchange to physical delivery by post and fax, via both on-premise and cloud platforms.

SharePoint is moving beyond its traditional strengths in collaboration and content management, also emerging as a custom application platform and business intelligence tool for data analysis, according to users profiled at the upcoming SharePoint 2013 Conference in Sydney (April 10-11)  and Auckland (April 16-17).

Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) Enterprise Services division (the former EDS business acquired in 2008)  is looking to lift its profile in business process outsourcing (BPO) in Australia and New Zealand with a new offering called AutoFlow.

Kodak has announced the launch of its i2900 Scanner as well as new capture and workflow software and solutions, Info Activate and Info Insight.

Worldwide business intelligence (BI) software revenue will reach US$13.8 billion in 2013, a seven percent increase from 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is forecast to reach US$17.1 billion by 2016.

There can be no doubt that SharePoint has increased the types of solutions available to SME’s. It provides them with a playground to create a number of solutions to address business issues such as document management, collaboration, reporting and forms etc. 

Kodak  has completed the sale and licensing of digital imaging patents for $US527 million.

Hyland Software has launched a locally hosted version of its cloud ECM offering in Australia.

Pingar, the New Zealand provider of unstructured data management solutions, has announced it has begun trials of its automated Taxonomy Generator Service with selected customers.

A significant aspect of effective Data Governance is about orchestrating the exchange of information between multiple parties; to facilitate (and arbitrate) a robust, repeatable approach to delivering content in context, in support of more effective and efficient business outcomes.  But how do you do this if you don’t know what data you’ve got, what state it’s in, or who is responsible for it? 

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