The National Archives of Australia (NAA) is reviewing the Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT). AGIFT uses common terms to describe the business functions of Australian Commonwealth, state and local governments. This makes it easier for people to find information across all levels of government.
Australian OpenText clients will be delivered better network performance and data sovereignty for cloud-hosted applications at a new local data centre, the company has announced.
Canon subsidiary Image Recognition Integrated Systems (I.R.I.S.) is seeking global opportunities for a distributed voting capture platform it has developed with online voting solutions developer Scytl, A Spanish company with which it has already accomplished digital election projects in Ecuador and Honduras in 2013.
With the recent announcement from Microsoft that InfoPath has been scheduled for retirement an anxious debate has broken out about what life is going to be like after InfoPath.
Hertz Australia says it has saved $A70,000 in its first 10 months of live operation by reducing the time and labour to process accounting documents with Kofax capture solutions.
Imaging distributor Alloys has extended its Australian footprint to include operations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. The expansion is a result of the recent Alloys acquisition of Integrex Systems, which was announced in July 2013.
Objective Corporation has announced ongoing expansion in local government, with Sutherland Shire Council and Redland City Council in Australia, as well as Tauranga City Council, Gisborne and Nelson District Councils in New Zealand, selecting the next generation information and process management solution, Objective ECM 8.
Patrick Lambe of Straits Knowledge Singapore has been added to the program of the IIM 2014 National Conference being held from May 1-2 2014 at the Ann Harding Centre, University of Canberra
Document generation software firm, HotDocs, has worked with Australian law firm Minter Ellison to provide innovative software solutions that fully integrate with their practice management, document management and CRM systems.
With the current explosion of data, the banking industry is keen to use Big Data to boost the effectiveness of analytics within their businesses, according to industry analyst Ovum. New research from the global analyst indicates that while worldwide spending on management information systems in the retail banking industry was US$6.9 billion in 2013, this is set to reach US$9.3 billion by the end of 2018.
