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Power PDF helps Harwood Andrews save on costs

Although familiar with Nuance as an innovator and supplier of speech recognition software, leading Victorian regional law firm, Harwood Andrews, was unaware that the company offered a PDF solution. It was not until the law firm accidentally came across Nuance Power PDF at a legal conference that they realised the software existed and could possibly prove to be the PDF solution they needed.

SAP and Concur - The $8 Billion Question

In one of the bigger software deals of 2014, SAP agreed to buy Concur Technologies for $US8.3 billion. The purchase provided the German ERP software giant with an entry into AP Automation and travel-related software for hotels and tourism services. On a recent visit to Australia, IDM asked AG Lambert, Concur’s VP, Product Management and Strategy, how the merger was progressing.

Understanding Text - the next data challenge

Data Analytics and Natural Language Processing are emerging as potential lifesavers for modern organisations at risk of drowning in rivers of unstructured data. ABBYY is one of a number of leading enterprise software developers to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the task of transforming the rushing torrent into intelligent and actionable information, via a technology known as Compreno. IDM asked Yury Koryukin, Managing Director of ABBYY Australia, to explain how semantic understanding of natural language can help organisations keep their head above water.

Drought of data scientists hurting business

Australian organisations may be missing out on opportunities to improve their business decision-making by not considering to hire a data scientist. The recent Teradata Data Analysis Index revealed that 88 per cent of companies use analytics to make decisions based on data but nearly the same percentage (86 per cent) have no plans to hire a data scientist.

eHealth delays threaten new Royal Adelaide Hospital

Promised as a flagbearer for the brave new world of eHealth when it opens in April 2016, the $1.85 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital (nRAH) will instead have to cope with a “hybrid” environment including paper records and workflow due to delays in a decade long program to implement a state-wide electronic health record.

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