Industry Insider

  • Using Text Analytics to extract metatada from SharePoint

    Most organisations do not realise that they can automatically extract information and value from text. Typically, they employ humans to do this manually, or worse, they ignore text altogether. Have you considered the cost to your business of creating and then storing data that just gets lost in your systems

  • Retiring legacy applications with TRIM

    Retirement may be an ending, but it can also offer the promise of a new beginning. This was certainly the hope held out by Tasmania’s Retirement Benefits Fund when it chose to retire a set of legacy applications and host all the data instead in its TRIM EDRMS.

  • Parliamentary Workflow System picks up steam

    The engine room of Australia’s Democracy is being overhauled with the rollout of a new Web-based Parliamentary Workflow System (PWS) for 40 Australian federal government agencies. The new system promising greater transparency, cost efficiencies and  and improved record record-keeping  among other benefits, is now six months ahead of schedule, with the completed rollout expected  by July 2016.

  • Top 5 tips to optimise Customer Order Processing

    Let’s get straight to the point: A company’s success begins and ends with its customers. And one of the most important components of customer satisfaction is the effectiveness and efficiency of business document processing. Today more than ever, optimising business processes within the order-to-cash cycle is central to improving overall performance and gaining a competitive edge. 

  • Implementing a Cloud Based Information Management System

    In the pharmaceutical industry, the drug development clock is ticking at the rate of warp-speed. As a result, companies are constantly looking for solutions to help them accelerate time to market - and many are realizing that implementing a cloud-based information management system can bring much needed clarity, organization and efficiency to the complex documentation processes and protocols required to bring a drug to market.

  • Lexmark stays in the hunt for ReadSoft

    Lexmark International has raised its bid for ReadSoft by 16% to more than $US220 million to counter the latest offer from Hyland Software in a tit for tat bidding war.

  • Why I like cloud and my toast

    At home I am able to plug my toaster into the wall, pop in some bread, and focus on what delicious spread I should have on my toast. I don’t have to worry about building and operating power plants to generate and supply electricity for my breakfast. This is what Cloud is doing for organisations – allowing them to focus on outcomes of their core business and purchase technology as a commodity. 

  • Visa invests in esignature specialist DocuSign

    Visa has announced it has made an investment in DocuSign and that both companies will work together “to seek ways to enable customers to prepare, execute and manage digital transactions and integrated payments safely and securely.

  • Attini delivers Flipboard-like SharePoint news app

    Rapid Circle has launched a new product for publishing and targeting news on Office 365 and SharePoint. Attini Comms is also a newsapp native for all mobile platforms, delivering personally relevant news items from Office 365 to the user’s mobile devices in a Flipboard-like manner.

  • Crossing Oceans of Electronic Invoicing

    The Ocean Freight Industry EIPP Standards Advisory Board (SAB), an independent organisation of ocean industry executives from around the world, has announced new standards guidelines in Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP). The new guidelines focus on key handling processes and required data elements for invoice and credit note presentment, in order to help the ocean freight industry enhance e-invoicing efficiency and automation in global shipping.