Industry Insider

  • Data science tackles a billion dollar healthcare problem

    A leading provider of healthcare analytics and technology-enabled services, Intermedix, has developed a solution to address no-show patients using Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS), its predictive analytics and data science platform.  The problem of patients missing scheduled appointments costs the healthcare industry billions of dollars of lost revenue each year. 

  • The risks of accepting electronic signatures

    A decision of the NSW Court of Appeal sets a potentially dangerous precedent in the context of the effective use of electronic signatures to facilitate transactions, according to a review by HopgoodGanim Partner Paul Cullen, head of the law firm’s Banking and Finance practice

  • Alcidion secure $525K contract with NT Health Department

    The Northern Territory Department of Health has signed a $525k contract with Alcidion Group to utilise the company’s technology across the Royal Darwin and Alice Springs Hospitals. The Department employs 6,323 staff and manages five public hospitals, and is presently constructing the new Palmerston Regional Hospital, the Northern Territory’s most technologically advanced facility.

  • Nintex next gen Workflow Automation and Mobile App solutions

    Nintex Workflow Cloud, the company's next generation platform that allows business and IT users to easily build, deploy, manage, and modify digital workflows across any ecosystem, is in Advance Preview. The company has also introduced Nintex App Studio for building custom mobile process applications with clicks instead of code, available for iOS, Android, or Windows devices.

  • Limitations of using OCR for file classification

    OCR is often used to obtain text from image-only files for use in classifying them. However, there are several limitations of OCR that can result in inaccurate or missing text which makes text-based classification difficult or impossible:

  • The chess pieces are moving in the ECM world

    Does OpenText’s $US1.62B acquisition of Dell EMC's enterprise content division, including Documentum, represent a defining point in the middlegame for enterprise content management (ECM) or the beginning of the endgame? Analysts and competitors have been vocal in their widely varying interpretations.

  • The self-fulfilling prophecy of intelligent automation

    Today’s need for automation is real and is not going away. It is undeniable that the intelligent automation market is going through a rapid democratisation process and societies we live in are somehow more inclined to coexist with virtual cognitive workers. The end-goal of automation is not anymore perceived as a Kafkaesque nightmare of unpredictable and uncompromising robots!