Nuance Communications Australia has announced that its scanning, print management, cost recovery and speech recognition technology solutions for the legal industry have topped their respective categories in the 2014 International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Technology Survey.
The rise of electronic currency will lead to the phasing out of physical cash in Australia within a decade, according to Professor Rabee Tourky, Director of the Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Economics.
Intergen has won a $NZ12M contract with Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in New Zealand to provide its SharePoint-based cloud Enterprise Content Management (ECM) service ‘Cohesion’.
Do you remember when taking a photo was more like a game of Russian roulette than trying to capture a simple image. Then even if you did get the picture right you were never quite sure if you took the film out of the camera correctly or that Kodak wouldn’t mess it up when processing. Fast forward 20 years and the digital image revolution has taken over and now with a selfie stick and a phone everyone is potential celebrity and a whole industry has changed.
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.
