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In the era of digital transformation initiatives, it’s easy to view the myriad of jobs that computers perform in a myriad of industries as magic. Many employees can’t look at a program or other digital tools and know-how it does what it does or how difficult it can be for everything to work the way it should. When encountering a problem, an employee will typically venture over to information technology (IT) and state their problem. IT will take a look at the said problem and fix it with a minute of typing and a snap of their fingers, again, just like magic. 

On March 2, 2021, Microsoft published information about four critical vulnerabilities in its widely used Exchange email server software that are being actively exploited. It also released security updates for all versions of Exchange back to 2010. Microsoft has told cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs it was notified of the vulnerabilities in “early January”. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has also issued a notice on the vulnerabilities.

The year 2020 was a wakeup call for cloud adoption and digital transformation. Intelligent Document Processing, or IDP, is increasingly seen as a critical next step to increasing process automation and handling the huge amount of inflowing data. But what is IDP exactly? To learn more IDM spoke with Alexander Goerke, CEO and Founder of Skilja, a company developing essential technologies for understanding documents.  

The teaming of advanced machine learning technologies with traditional OCR and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), is providing new possibilities for organisations overwhelmed with processing a digital deluge of messages and documents. Frank Volckmar, Managing Director of TCG Australia and New Zealand, believes the possibilities unleashed by these new cutting-edge technologies have unleashed a new paradigm, variously described as ‘Hyperautomation’ or ‘Capture 2.0’.

The overused terms “low-code” and “no-code” are confusing application and software engineering leaders about which development tools to choose. Leaders should focus on evaluating these tools based on their fit to use cases and skill sets, rather than the labels used to describe the products.

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