The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is seeking a new partner to provide a digital Census in 2021, following the spectacular failure of the IBM solution in 2016.

Blue Prism and ABBYY have announced a strategic partnership to integrate ABBYY’s FlexiCapture solution with Blue Prism’s Digital Workforce – automating the process of turning unstructured content into structured, actionable data for enterprise users.

AI developer Rulex has launched Rulex Robotic Data Correction (RDC), a turn-key AI-based solution for the automatic correction of forms-oriented business data. 

Open source AI developer H2O.ai has announced a new release of its automatic machine learning platform H2O Driverless AI, which includes advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities.

Igloo Software, a provider of digital workplace solutions, is partnering with California-based Lucidworks to leverage its artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing technology to improve search speed and relevancy.

Quantzig, a global analytics solutions provider, has published an analysis of 5 natural language processing (NLP) applications in business. NLP is gradually going mainstream with Siri, Google, and Alexa communicating with users and decoding the language spoken by them.

Lucidea, the developer of Inmagic library automation and knowledge management solutions, has acquired its long-time Melbourne-based distributor Maxus Australia, which has been supplying and supporting Inmagic solutions since 1984.

Nuix has acquired the Ringtail eDiscovery software business from FTI Consulting for $US55 million, and is promising to create an end-to-end eDiscovery platform featuring the patented processing power of the Nuix Engine across more than 1,000 file types and data formats.

iManage has broadened its Work Product Management portfolio with the acquisition of Elegrity, a provider of risk and compliance management software and solutions.

Rosoka Software has launched Rosoka Text Analytics v1.5 for the IBM i2 Analyst’s Notebook. The new release of the tightly integrated application delivers powerful new features that allow users to fully analyze multilingual unstructured data, while providing the analyst with more control over the entities and relationship that are used for analysis.