Australia's DAMsmart has been appointed by the Fijian Government to digitise the National Archive’s film and video collection, and to commission a Media Asset Management (MAM) system for the ongoing management and control of the newly created digital assets.
Fujitsu Australia has announced availability of its latest range of high-speed A4 image scanners, the fi-7180 ($A2599, $NZ2999) and fi-7280 ($A3199, $NZ3499) to automate the task of digitising business data.
ECM giant OpenText has outlaid $US1.65 billion to acquire one of the world's largest business to business (B2B) electronic data interchange (EDI) networks, the GXS Trading Grid.
The National Archives of Australia (NAA) Annual report claims the 2015 Digital Transition for federal government agencies is ontrack, although it notes there is still considerable room for improvement in agency uptake.
Unless you have spent the last six months stranded on a deserted island, it is highly probable that you have read that many countries around the world are working to define ways to best manage “private information” in the digital age. In Australia, the revised Privacy Amendment Act will come into effect in March 2014.
Civica has been selected by Victoria's Maribyrnong City Council to provide an overhaul to its Finance, Payroll, Land Information Systems, Authority Assets and Customer Requests Management.
The development and implementation of digital government strategies is putting the government CIO role under pressure, leading to the creation of new roles, according to Gartner, Inc. The analyst firm predicts that by 2014, more than 10 percent of government organisations will have appointed a chief data officer and over 20 percent will have appointed a chief digital officer.
Strong growth in recent years has seen New Zealand Health Insurer Accuro adopt a hybrid cloud strategy and explore forms-based automation with its Laserfiche document management platform.
Recordkeeping – yawn. We all know what that is: Whack some metadata on a document, refer to the file plan, apply a function/activity classification, determine the correct retention and disposal schedule, click, save, done. Right?
Scanning invoices in an attempt to reduce procurement effort is like ordering a faster fax machine because your current model is too slow argues Steve Howcroft. So why not just get rid of the fax machine?
