Improved social capabilities are coming to in Wave 15, the revamp of SharePoint and Office due out from Microsoft in December 2012. However Australian and New Zealand companies are being urged not to wait but make the jump now into enterprise social media.
A rising percentage of organisations are choosing e-invoicing to reduce processing costs, accelerate approval cycles, and increase on-time payments. Australia’s TRN Group, a family-owned Civil Engineering and Haulage contractor based in Camden NSW, has adopted an Abbyy FlexiCapture solution to manage the processing and approval of approximately 3,500 creditor invoices per month.
Gartner has found that that the most difficult aspect of email management is establishing and enforcing email retention policies, in new research that looks at the best practices in eliminating local email archives.
Metadata Technology North America has been selected by The Australian Bureau of Statistics to provide expert assistance in the re-engineering of its IT infrastructure for statistical production.
Ediscovery and enterpise search provider Nuix and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an IT analyst firm, have released a report examining how organisations can dramatically reduce their storage and eDiscovery costs by deleting outdated, redundant and trivial data.
Google has officially launched a competitor to Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive, and other cloud sync and backup services, known as Google Drive and offering 5GB of free cloud storage.
Office 365 is providing New Zealand’s Icebreaker clothing company with a global intranet in the Microsoft cloud to support its continued worldwide expansion.
Kokak Capture Pro Software v3.1 has been named “Outstanding Production Scan Solution” in the Winter 2012 “Pick” awards from BLI, an independent tester of document imaging products.
Citrix has acquired a privately held company that offers a cloud-based collaborative work platform, Podio.
The company says Podio is a natural extension of the Citrix collaboration business, providing today’s mobile and distributed workforce an easy, secure and social way to come together and work as teams. Podio will be part of the GoTo cloud services portfolio, which includes GoToMeeting.
