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Dell’s 10 year program to build an end-to-end enterprise software suite reached its culmination this week with the stunning $US67 billion takeover of EMC, rounding out the company’s portfolio with a compressive set of solutions for unstructured data management.

Claiming that “forcing GPs to adopt half-baked e-health record [is] a dud idea,” the Australian Medical Association (AMA), has opposed government plans to link GP incentive payments to the adoption of the scheme.

In the information technology industry today, information is our primary asset. Information is what we provide to the business. Information is also pivotal for the success of the IT organization in providing valuable services to the business.

Shortly after Lexmark’s $US1 billion acquisition of Kofax, Howard Dratler was appointed head of sales with Lexmark’s Enterprise Software division and placed in charge of the global field organisation. On a recent visit to the region, IDM got the opportunity to quiz Dratler on the progress of merging the operations of Perceptive Software, Kofax and ReadSoft.

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has created what it believes to be the UK's first contract robot, to work within its Real Estate practice, putting it at the cutting edge of innovation in the legal sector.  The company says it will allow lawyers to focus on higher value work for clients.

Even in today’s digital world, documents proliferate in every part of an organisation – from accounts management (invoices, checks, and remittances) and human resources (employment applications and benefits forms) to engineering and manufacturing (design documents) and sales and marketing (sales plans and marketing collateral). Documents remain a key vehicle for making transactions and business processes work, and so document management continues to be a challenge. Optical character recognition (OCR) was the initial answer to many document-management woes, but in the age of big data analytics, OCR shortcomings can result in bad analytics.

If you are in charge of a company or organisation or even a large department, then you will have heard the term “information governance”, and you will have probably asked yourself: “What is it I need to know about this new field?” You will want an answer that is not just theoretical but practically relates the definition of information governance with your organization’s or division’s core tasks and responsibilities.

At this year’s InsideNGO conference (annual event for the international relief and development NGO community), Deby MacLeod, Audit and Assurance Principal at accounting firm  Clark Nuber PS, recently shared her perspective on how a document management system can simplify the audit process for both parties. She discussed 4 key areas of audit focus along with controls you can put in place that will help you pass with flying colours.

ABBYY has announced its role in helping Rhenus Assets & Services – the Shared Services Centre of the global logistics company – to process up to 1.8 million documents annually in the form of incoming invoices, delivery notes, and many other paper documents. Following central processing and classification of the documents, data from incoming invoices are read according to business rules and then passed to the workflow-based approval process in SAP.

A new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit has found that while a majority of companies have yet to implement their digital transformation initiatives, most expect their operations to be 80 percent digital or more in the next five years.