Former MD of Pegasystems ANZ, Scott Leader has been announced as regional Vice President for Australia and New Zealand at cloud content management specialist Box

Solution provider Axient has signed a distribution agreement with Elcom Technology (Elcom) to incorporate Elcom’s Digital Workplace platform in its product offerings.

Io-Tahoe LLC , a developer of machine learning-driven smart data discovery products that span a wide range of heterogeneous technology platforms, from traditional databases and data warehouses to data lakes and other modern repositories, has announced the General Availability (GA) launch of the Io-Tahoe smart data discovery platform.

SAP has launched the application edition of SAP Predictive Analytics software to help enterprises create and manage predictive machine learning models for applications that run business activities, including supply chain, finance and accounting, human capital management and customer management.

A new feature for Workshare’s document comparison solution, Selective Compare, enables users to run a redline comparison on snippets of text from emails, chat or pasted from a file and instantly see the differences, rather than having to review an entire document.

InEight, a US developer of construction project management software, is to acquire Australia’s  QA Software and its flagship product, TeamBinder, a document management and collaboration solution for the engineering and construction industry.  The acquisition price was not disclosed.

US startup FileShadow wants to offer providing “prosumers” and businesses a way to have all content stored on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and Adobe Creative Cloud instantly findable regardless of location and “available for a lifetime”. FileShadow is hosted on the IBM Cloud utilising IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS).

ASX listed collaboration vendor Covata has added a data classification engine that enables realtime analysis of metadata and content across all data types, under a worldwide OEM agreement with German firm dataglobal.

Adobe Sign has added new enhancements for life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, added more forms automation functionality by including a new way to collect online payments, and announced new cloud-based digital signature partners.

The TWAIN Working Group (TWG), a not-for-profit organisation designed to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices, has announced the addition of ABBYY as an Associate member of the TWAIN Working Group.