The Polish Credit Office (Biuro Informacji Kredytowej - BIK), the largest credit bureau in Central and Eastern Europe, has committed to implementing Billon blockchain for storage and secure access to sensitive customer information including millions of documents.
Formed in 2001, Avantix is one of Australia’s leading Information Processing providers, operating throughout Australia as a dedicated government and enterprise solution supplier. The company prides itself on helping organisations manage hard copy and digital information – hence the recent installation of two OPEX Falcon scanning workstations.
It’s been a big year for companies pushing the boundaries of technology – and not in a good way. The Cambridge Analytica scandal led to a public outcry about privacy, the Commonwealth Bank’s loss of customer data raised concerns about cybersecurity, and a fatal self-driving car crash put the safety of automated systems in the spotlight.
Information Management and Governance (IMG) specialist, iCognition, has been awarded Micro Focus Asia-Pacific Information Management & Governance (IMG) Partner of the Year Award for 2017.
Delphi, one of Sweden's top commercial law firms, has chosen DocsCorp’s contentCrawler as part of its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance strategy. The firm selected the contentCrawler OCR module to help address the "dark data" issue that was discovered after an audit of their file systems.
The Australian Federal Government has committed $A45 million to establishing the Consumer Data Right. Giving the control of data back to the consumer presents an opportunity for business to add value to those who share with them.
An oft-quoted statistic has information workers spending 1.8 hours each day or 9.3 hours per week searching for information. If you are in a team of five, this equates to one of you making about as much progress as if they spent the day at the football.
Computer scientists at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. While having obvious advantages for spies, FontCode has perhaps more practical application for companies wanting to prevent document tampering or protect copyrights, and for retailers and artists wanting to embed QR codes and other metadata without altering the look or layout of a document.
Ike Kavas is the founder and CEO of Ephesoft, with 20 years of document capture, document management, workflow and systems engineer experience. His previous role was Chief Technology Officer at Ephesoft and he holds a patent on supervised machine learning for document classification and extraction. On a visit to Australia in May for a series of customer events, IDM asked Ike to expand on expand the company’s mission of turning the world’s unstructured content into actionable data.
