Industry Insider

  • Accounts Payable Improvement Requires Procurement Improvement

    Accounts payable is an area that is singled out for process improvement in many organisations. The business looks at number of people doing manual processing and believes it is a simple case of putting in document scanning, or electronic data interchange and savings will flow.

  • Digital transformation boosts enterprise app market

    Worldwide spending on enterprise application software will grow 7.5 percent to reach US$149.9 billion in 2015, increasing to more than US$201 billion in 2019, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Analysts said that long-term growth in spending will be driven primarily by modernisation, functional expansion and digital transformation projects.

  • The immense impact of a US Government classification mishap

    FBI investigators are launching a new case to see if emails sent and received by Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton had the correct classification markings following revelations that an insider may have stripped the most serious “secret” markings from her emails.

  • The Hybridisation of EFSS and ECM

    Consumer and enterprise file synchronization and sharing popped up because people needed a way to easily share and collaborate on business content. This gave rise to the “Dropbox problem”, which is just stupid and ignores the real problem; organizations didn’t provide their people with policies and tools that allowed them to get stuff done. Today there are plenty of options, consumer and business grade, that provide a cool experience with the security and controls that business and IT need.

  • Kapish Services takes out Industry Award

    One of Australia’s leading records management service providers, Kapish Services, has taken out the 'Jim Shepherd Award' at the 2015 RIM Professionals Australasia Gala Awards Dinner, winning the highest class of recognition in the National or Multi-National Company category.

  • 3D printing embeds in clinical imaging

    ASX Listed company 3D Medical Limited has announced a partnership with Intelerad Medical Systems (Intelerad) to develop seamless ordering of the company’s patient-specific 3D printed anatomical models and fulfilment services. Orders will be placed directly with 3DM from Intelerad’s InteleViewer software while the clinician is reviewing a patient’s diagnostic image study.

  • Law firms stick with paper: survey

    If you are a law firm still relying on paper records, don’t feel you are being left behind, as a recent survey of US and Canadian firms found 84% of firms rely on paper records for their official matter file, with 13% noting their firms had no official matter file policy at all.

  • Alfresco preserves indigenous history

    South Australian technology company Parashift has been chosen to help streamline the digitisation and cataloguing of artefacts for the world’s largest collection of material relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and knowledge, held by The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

  • Using Open Source PDF Technology to Solve the Unstructured Data Problem in Healthcare

    If there’s one major challenge to single out in healthcare IT today, it would be leveraging the growth and usage of big data. While consumer IT made big advances in the past decade to get a handle of data by marking up content, indexing it, and annotating it for use, enterprise, and healthcare IT in particular, still need to catch up on making data actionable.