Kofax has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nuance Document Imaging (NDI), a division of Nuance Communications.

Kofax has announced new robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The company says it provides “out-of-the-box” functionality and a comprehensive, single-vendor, single-platform, Intelligent Automation solution.

Ephesoft has announced a new Global Partner Program designed to provide its partners with everything needed to market, configure and deliver comprehensive smart document capture solutions to a broad market base. Ephesoft currently has 250 partners in 50 countries across 6 continents, all of which will be transitioned to the new Global Partner Program.

Diligen, developer of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based contract assistant, has announced new native integration with NetDocuments, the cloud-based content services platform for law firms, corporate legal teams and compliance departments. The integration allows users to simply and securely summarize and analyse legal documents using Diligen’s AI and Machine Learning tools.

Brother Industries Ltd, the parent company of Brother International Australia, have once again won the highly esteemed Japanese design award: “Good Design Award 2018” in 6 categories. The organisation, one of the leading global manufacturers of printers, scanners, and labellers, was competing against 4,789 entries across several categories.

Blue Prism has joined the party by launching its own Robotics Process Automation (RPA) “app store” - its new Digital Exchange (DX) – following similar announcements from competitors Automation Anywhere and UiPath in 2018.

ABBYY has announced the rebranding of its most powerful server-based optical character recognition service ABBYY Recognition Server as ABBYY FineReader Server. The step aims to further consolidate all ABBYY OCR and PDF conversion offering under the FineReader brand.

Australian technology and data management business Database Consultants Australia (DCA) has acquired Tenix Solutions a provider of compliance management, digital platforms, infringement processing and collections services for government enterprises and private sector organisations.

Two Australian hospitals have been officially recognised as the first hospitals to adopt the highest international standards of digital health at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) AsiaPac18 Conference and Exhibition. St Stephen’s Hospital Hervey Bay (UnitingCare) and The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne are being accredited as Stage 7 – the most advanced stage of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM).

Google and OpenText have announced they will work together to deploy OpenText's EIM solution suite on Google Cloud Platform. This work will include a containerised application architecture for flexible cloud or hybrid deployment models.