Industry Insider

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. 

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Listed ECM software provider Objective Corporation has reported to the Australian Stock Exchange an 18% jump in revenue for the 2014 Financial Year, up to $A48.6m from $A41.0 for the corresponding previous 12 month period.

Separately, document and records management seem straightforward enough, but what happens when you put them side-by-side? While these terms have some overlapping characteristics, there are crucial distinctions that make each practice essential for your organisation’s success.

Experienced PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) director Thomas Phelps IV has joined Laserfiche as Chief Corporate Strategist and CIO to lead the company’s Marketing and Information Technology (IT) organisations.