The big news from the keynote presentation at the Office 365 Summit in Sydney this week was that there is no big news. We sat on the edge of our seats waiting for the long awaited Australian Office 365 services to be announced and got (drum roll) nothing. However, this is the cloud nothing stays the same for long. By day two of the summit, everything had changed. The Office 365 (and CRM online) services were now live in Australia and the sun had come out.
Lexmark is keeping the Perceptive brand, but renaming its enterprise software division, which will now go to market as Lexmark, though its products including Perceptive Content, Perceptive Intelligent Capture, and Perceptive Search will still bear the Perceptive brand name.
US start-up Sensai has announced it raised $US900K in seed funding to develop its unstructured data analysis platform, which it is initially targeting at larger financial services and compliance organizations.
Making the most of information is a priority for many organisations. However, a new study from storage and information management company, Iron Mountain shows that a lack of understanding between those who manage and those who use information is making it harder to achieve this goal.
A scanning solution utilising ABBYY FlexiCapture is allowing a leading international provider of data and software to accounting practices and their clients, Bankstream, to significantly expand its service. The solution was developed by the NZ-based development team for Bankstream in response to the unique requirements of the UK market.
Objective Corporation has announced that Microsoft Azure will be adopted as the cloud platform for Objective’s content, collaboration and process management solutions, globally.
Brisbane Airport has begun trial of a Digital Departure Card for international passengers, removing the age old necessity of hand writing the official ‘outgoing passenger card’ (Departure Card) required for immigration purposes.
A $US1B buyout of leading enterprise capture vendor Kofax by Lexmark adds more weight to the capture and workflow software holdings of its Perceptive subsidiary, following earlier acquisitions ReadSoft and Brainware. It also potentially brings into play the huge channel network of over 850 partners that Kofax has established worldwide in raising the profile of Perceptive’s full suite of information management software.
Implementing an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) at the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) appeared on the surface to be a typical and unremarkable task. However the project actually differed in the unique opportunities it presented, the engagement of the users and the commitment of information management staff to boldly work in uncharted territory.
Responding to criticism of her use of a personal email account for US Government business, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that recordkeeping requirements would be met because she forwarded mail from her personal email account to US State Department staff where they would be permanently archived. However a new report from the US Office of the Inspector General has blasted Departmental email management practices and concludes that staff only keep a tiny fraction as records.
