As part of a series of new machine learning initiatives at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon has launched a service called Kendra that uses natural language processing and other machine learning techniques. It aims to unite multiple data silos inside an enterprise and consistently provide high-quality results to common queries instead of a random list of links in response to keyword queries.

​7Park Data, a provider of data transformation software, has announced the launch of its data preparation platform, powered by machine learning models trained for more than seven years on proprietary data sets.

​​​​​​​Indium Software, a niche technology solutions company, has launches its flagship product ‘teX.ai’ — an Ai based Text Analytics suite of solutions to offer data scraping, validation, classification, summarization, clustering, topic modelling and more.

Cohesity has announced Cohesity SmartFiles, a software-defined storage solution for a variety of workloads including collaboration and productivity apps, large-scale document management, life sciences and medical research, digital archives, and video and surveillance

Archives New Zealand has announced it will replace the existing collection management and search platform, Archway, with Axiell Collections.

Automation Anywhere has announced updates to IQ Bot, RPA-integrated Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution that runs in the cloud or on-premise.

SaaS e-invoicing solution provider Storecove, based in The Netherlands, has established its Asia-Pacific presence with the successful acquisition of Squirrel Street’s e-invoicing business. Initially based in Australia, the company plans to set up Singapore as its Asia-Pacific centre of operations.

Residential property developer, AVJennings, has signed a five-year deal with TechnologyOne. The move – which forms part of the developer’s digital transformation strategy – will see a knock-down-rebuild of almost all of AVJennings’ major enterprise applications.

Although the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) envisages the 20121 Census will be predominantly digital, it is seeking submissions for the provision of Data Capture and Recognition Software and/or scanning infrastructure for Paper Forms.

M-Files Corporation has unveiled a solution that integrates Salesforce with on-premises repositories and systems like SharePoint. The new integration is based on the M-Files Ground Link technology which provides a secure and easy way to connect cloud-based systems and repositories with on-premises documents and data.