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Hospital and healthcare provider to Geelong and south western Victoria, Barwon Health, has deployed a metadata registry and information asset register based on the aka software platform from Australia’s Synercon Group. This followed a successful proof of concept in early 2015.

If you’re an Australian business considering an electronic signature solution, I have good news. Axient partner eSignLive has just announced it will store local signature data in two Australian data centres.

Colin Biggers & Paisley, an Australian law firm with a focus on property development, has slashed thousands of paralegal hours and drastically reduced paper consumption by digitising its contracts with DocuSign.

Tony Barbeau is a products and services general manager, and vice president of the Information Management division at Kodak Alaris. He is responsible for business management, strategic planning, product development and commercialization for the Kodak Alaris information management products and solutions. Barbeau knows firsthand the challenges that business process outsourcers (BPOs) face today in meeting customer demands for faster, lower cost document processing while working to help their clients leverage the advantages of digital transformation. I had the opportunity to speak with Tony regarding the new Kodak i5250 and i5650 Scanners, and how they help service providers keep pace.

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology from ABBYY is helping Melbourne-based financial software developer FinSuite to ease the burden on financial institutions in extracting and standardising data for business loan risk evaluation and processing.

RBRO Solutions has launched a real-time, web-based monitoring solution for iManage Work (formerly HP WorkSite) document management system (DMS) environments, enabling administrator’s unprecedented access to information in real-time from a very simple but powerful user interface.

Records and Information Management (RIM), in many industries, is a fading requirement. Don't get me wrong; archivists in city clerk offices, holders of historical artefacts and documents, much of the medical industry - particularly in different parts of the world, and other areas of information management will still thrive with RIM professionals, librarians, and archivists. However, in the engineering sector - RIM just does not cut it anymore.

Paper. That’s the one thing all businesses have in common in some shape or form. The difference is that some businesses are drowning in it while others have taken the steps to manage and maintain it.

Hmmm … how long has that carton of milk been in the fridge?  Take it out and give it a sniff, then check the expiration date.  Whew, still good for tomorrow’s coffee. Unfortunately, knowing if your digital records will still be usable in the future isn’t quite so easy.

For decades, organizations have struggled with the need to extract business-critical data from unstructured sources to drive better decision-making. Human effort cannot match the volume of information in business today, and technology solutions have been unable to fill the gap … until now.