Esignature solutions provider Secured Signing and ADLS (Auckland District Law Society) have teamed up to introduce a new Digital Signing Service within the ADLS WebForms platform. Over 1000 law firms in New Zealand subscribe to ADLS WebForms for online legal document creation, and the launch of the new Digital Signing Service will enable legal professionals to complete their signing workflow securely and conveniently within the one platform.
This summer, Australia’s Department of Finance started the process of developing a strategy for its new “Whole of Government Digital Records Platform” by soliciting ideas from the technology industry on how to fix what a recent report found was an inefficient and “unsustainable” system for managing records and information.
You can’t move in the outsourcing industry without hearing about Robotic Process Automation (RPA). And while it might sound like terminology cribbed from a sci-fi novel, the truth is that RPA is already here, and it is transforming the way modern businesses operate.
Finance and treasury professionals know that new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotic process automation will disrupt their function, yet they believe their organisations are not prepared for the coming changes, according to a new AFP MindShift survey .
The National Archives of Australia has launched a new Digital Authorisations Framework designed to assist Australian Government agencies transform analogue approval processes to fully digital approvals.
Limited working budgets and organisational culture are the biggest barriers to achieving digital transformation within the public sector particularly focused on Local Government in ANZ, according to ‘The Changing Landscape for the Public Sector: The Challenges of Building Digital Bridges’, a study of local government leaders in Australia and New Zealand.
Allens – a prestigious global law firm based in Australia, serving 55 of the world's top 100 companies and more than 75 of Australia's top 100 companies – has selected iManage for Work Product Management.
One of the final frontiers before moving to electronic recordkeeping is eliminating 'wet signatures', or hand-signing. In most cases in Australasia, we are allowed to replace hand-signing with an electronic method. This is good news, since manual records are becoming increasingly difficult to manage, as more and more business transactions and information management moves to digital systems.
Managing documents and email is of huge importance to lawyers in every type of practice, but in the case of leading independent Australian law firm Johnson Winter & Slattery (JWS), the issue becomes even more critical owing to the many complex disputes and deals it handles for prominent local and international clients.
When opportunity knocks, it seldom knocks twice. For Ross Vincent, Special Projects Manager at NZ business Retail Dimension (now known as RD), the upheaval associated with relocating and restructuring the business in 2017 provided a unique opportunity to improve business processes, one that he grabbed with both hands.
