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The risks of accepting electronic signatures

A decision of the NSW Court of Appeal sets a potentially dangerous precedent in the context of the effective use of electronic signatures to facilitate transactions, according to a review by HopgoodGanim Partner Paul Cullen, head of the law firm’s Banking and Finance practice

RACGP calls for paper and fax ban

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has released a position paper calling for all healthcare services and government agencies that communicate patient information with general practices to eliminate paper forms and faxes within the next three years and to replace then with highly secure digital communications.

The chess pieces are moving in the ECM world

Does OpenText’s $US1.62B acquisition of Dell EMC's enterprise content division, including Documentum, represent a defining point in the middlegame for enterprise content management (ECM) or the beginning of the endgame? Analysts and competitors have been vocal in their widely varying interpretations.

The self-fulfilling prophecy of intelligent automation

Today’s need for automation is real and is not going away. It is undeniable that the intelligent automation market is going through a rapid democratisation process and societies we live in are somehow more inclined to coexist with virtual cognitive workers. The end-goal of automation is not anymore perceived as a Kafkaesque nightmare of unpredictable and uncompromising robots!

There is Also the Fact That Paper is Awesome

OK, this time we’re finally going to be doing away with paper in the office. The end of paper has been trumpeted for decades, but this time – if you believe The Wall St. Journal (“Why the Paperless Office Is Finally on Its Way“) – it’s finally going to happen.

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