Industry Insider

It seems that barely a day goes by when we don’t see another announcement about Office 365.  New (Australian data centre hosted) offerings to be available by the end of March 2015, the ongoing integration of Yammer, the launch of Delve and the Office graph, Smart Portals, Office extended to all devices and platforms, continual changes to the app development story, single sign on in the cloud using Azure Active Directory, OneDrive for business offering unlimited storage. The list goes on and on.

Paul Wyatt has joined NetDocuments to lead sales and business development for the cloud-based document and email management solution across the Australian and Asia Pacific regions.

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.

International law firm Allens has chosen HighQ Collaborate as its new client extranet platform.

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.