Fuji Xerox Australia has signed an agreement with Kofax to act as a Platinum partner and reseller of Kofax’s smart data capture applications in Australasia.
A 2015 survey conducted by CrowdFlower, developer of a data enrichment platform for data scientists, found that that data scientists saw messy, disorganized data as a major hurdle preventing them from doing what they find most interesting in their jobs: predictive analysis and data mining for behavioural patterns and future trends. The majority of more than 150 data scientists surveyed also acknowledged the skills shortage within their field.
Many organisations today are finding it difficult to comply with the ever-growing number of complex rules and regulations governing the sound management of information and records. The reason for this is two-fold, says Louisa Venter, senior enterprise information management (EIM) consultant at South Africa’s Datacentrix, who explains that firstly, legislation is not sufficiently backed up by the necessary government infrastructure to support successful execution by organisations.
The challenge of automating information extraction is at the core of the Sintelix text analytics platform from Semantic Sciences, a CSIRO spinoff established in 2008 by founder Daniel McMichael and now being utilized by corporate and government customers. in Australia and globally. At the US Department of Defense it is employed in tandem with data analytics technology from tech darling Palantir, best known for its work on behalf of the US government’s intelligence community. Simon Kravis interviewed Daniel to learn more about the commercial uptake of this sophisticated text analytics solution.
The email address as we know it was born when Ray Tomlinson introduced the “@” sign in 1977, since which email has continually grown in popularity as a communication tool for work and pleasure – until last year. For the first time ever, 2014 recorded a sharp decrease in the number of emails sent around the world, from 204m per second in 2013 to 138.8m per second in 2014.
One of Australia’s leading diversified food and agribusiness companies, the Craig Mostyn Group has moved ahead with Esker Accounts Payable solution on Premises with its mobile application for business approvers.
A National Audit of the overseas operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has criticised DFAT’s Consular Management Information System (CMIS) and highlighted the need for improved data entry.
Many workplace procedures are still just an online version of their analogue predecessors with clunky, manual processes that get in the way of doing business. Employees have grown accustomed to the friendly, intuitive experiences that smartphones and tablets deliver. Businesses need to come to the party and deliver the same experience in the workplace. Often, businesses use outdated practices not because there aren’t better alternatives out there, but through force of habit.
One of the more common grievances I hear when presenting SharePoint workshops for our customers is the difficulty of using SharePoint Search to quickly and reliably find content. Out of the box, SharePoint 2013 has everything you need to search content held within your environment and even externally stored content. However there are a few ways to make SharePoint Search work even better for you.
