Some companies have the collaboration tools, but not the vision to deploy them effectively, argues Marcus Dervin, director of Sydney SharePoint/Office 365 consultancy WebVine.
A $A1.3 million project by Australia’s Commonwealth Treasury in 2010–11 to use SharePoint as a portal to its TRIM EDRMS was never completed, symptomatic of the snail’s pace of adoption of centralised digital record-keeping at three government agencies examined by the the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
Australia’s leading building products manufacturer, Brickworks Limited has gone live with accounts payable (AP) automation including complex routing for review/approval and receipting for processing invoices in Australia. It intends to roll the system out across New Zealand in late June.
Canon is launching into invoice automation for business and government customers in Australia and New Zealand with an offering based on the I.R.I.S. capture and OCR platform developed by a Canon European subsidiary company.
Queensland’s new state government has scrapped a $A47.3m project to deliver a centralised email, identity management and authentication service using Exchange 2007.
