Object Storage Specialist Cloudian has launched its operations in Australia and New Zealand, led locally by Australian industry veterans James Wright and Jason Mantell - both with prior experience at Nutanix and Pure Storage.

Esker has been certified as a PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line) Access Point by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). This accreditation enables Esker to send and receive e-invoices to and from all entities using the PEPPOL network.

iText Group NV has announced the launch of iText pdfOCR, built on the Tesseract OCR engine. Tesseract supports over 100 languages and was originally developed by Hewlett-Packard ('85), and was released under the Apache open source license in 2005. Since 2006, its development has been sponsored by Google.

Campbelltown City Council and Victoria University have signed on to Citadel’s cloud-based information management solution, Citadel-IX, featuring the Micro Focus Content Manager (CM) EDRMS.

Software developer ASC Technologies AG has launched a native app integrated into Microsoft Teams that allows users to record and archive one-to-one PSTN-to-Teams calls and Microsoft Calling Plan calls as well as online meetings, video and chat to fully meet compliance requirements.

FlowForma has launched a range of Remote Collaboration bundles to help companies rapidly digitize processes and minimize the impact of COVID-19. The company's no-code approach to business process automation provides a fast fix for 'keeping the lights on' and accelerates digital transformation projects, now seen as business critical for organizations because of the pandemic.

SafeGuard Cyber has announced new capabilities within its SaaS security platform to protect collaboration, chat, and social media. SafeGuard 7.6 now performs threat analysis on managed social and digital accounts to detect and remediate malware, including zero day exploits and associated messaging, file attachments, and links that are shared on these channels.

Dynamsoft has updated its document capture and management software development kit to allow desktop capabilities to be possible on mobile browsers too. This includes full document loading, image capture, editing, and saving functions for enhanced mobile workflows and productivity.

Smarsh has announced capture and archiving support for WhatsApp and WeChat, two prominent secure messaging applications that are undergoing rapid enterprise adoption.

RecordPoint has adopted the Blue Heeler, the most iconic of Australian canines, as part of a “brand refresh” that includes a new logo featuring a map of Australia, where the product was launched in 2009. Now headquartered in Seattle, Washington, RecordPoint is a global player in the SaaS Information Governance market.