Industry Insider

Grace Records Management has recently acquired Queensland archive and information management company, Securedoc.

The vast majority of Australian businesses are now using some form of cloud computing and cloud-based email is a common choice for local organisations. Since the start of this year, retailer Woolworths and publishers News Corp and Fairfax have announced plans to switch their on-premises email systems to Google Apps, while Qantas and the Queensland Government said they were shifting to Microsoft’s Office 365.

Bottomline Technologies, a provider of cloud-based payment, invoice and digital banking solutions, has opened a new regional head office in Pyrmont, Sydney to support Australia and New Zealand.

In my time in this business (enterprise content management, records management, document management, etc.) I have been asked to help with a ‘shared drive problem’ more times than I can remember. This particular issue is analogous with the paperless office problem. Thirty years ago when I started my company I naively thought that both problems would be long gone by now but they are not. I still get requests for purely physical records management solutions and I still get requests to assist customers in sorting out their shared drives problems.

Victoria’s largest not-for-profit privately owned healthcare organisation, Epworth Healthcare, has completed a major rollout of the BOSSnet Digital Medical Record including implementation of e-forms and deployment 25+ Kodak document scanners across the 8 Epworth hospitals.

A string of successes in the local government market has helped Objective Corporation report an 18% jump in revenue for the 2014 Financial Year. 

The Cotton On Group, Australia’s largest value fashion brand, has selected Xcellerate IT as the preferred solution provider to implement a best practice invoice automation solution within their Accounts Payable (AP) department.

The Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) has expressed concern about the lack of health information management in plans to implement recommendations of a report into the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system.

The State Records Authority of New South Wales has become one of only three worldwide installations of a MAP MASTER XXL large format document scanner.  

Records management is the effective and systematic control of an organization’s records, regardless of medium, through their entire life cycle–from receipt or creation until their final disposition. Records management ensures that valuable records evidencing an organization’s activities and that have legal, fiscal, administrative or historical value are protected and accessible while useless records are systematically destroyed.