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Barbador has recently been appointed as the exclusive Australian agent for Smartlogic, the UK-based creator of the Semaphore Semantic Platform.

Cloud computing, off-shore data management and outsourced services and information have impacted the way, most, if not all, Australian businesses manage and store customer and company data. And while most have implemented some sort of software security solution, they have not always adopted a holistic approach to information security.

Nuance has been ranked number one in global document capture software market share in a new study from the American market research firm Harvey Spencer Associates (HSA). This report marks the fourth consecutive ye

Objective Corporation   has won the 2013 Jim Shepherd Industry Award from the Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia (RIM Professionals Australasia).

TEMIS has won a tender to supply its Semantic Content Enrichment solution Luxid at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

A platform to automate vote counting for Australian federal elections using document scanning and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) could be implemented for around $A25 million and deliver results in 8 hours, according to industry experts. Its deployment could prevent situations such as the looming recall of nearly 1.5 million voters in Western Australia (WA) after a small number of ballot papers from four booths in that state went missing.

The problem with standards is that there are so many to choose from, laughs Barbara Reed of Recordkeeping Innovation.

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.