The Vitrium document security solution, Protectedpdf, is expanding beyond PDF files with the release of a Microsoft Office add-in that will allow document owners to protect their Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

HPE has announced the launch of the HPE Verity suite, a modular set of applications and services to help businesses manage, govern and extract actionable insights from enterprise information. The first module to be released is Verity Information Archiving, designed to help organisations manage and control data in accordance with regulatory, legal and operational needs.

Cellebrite, a developer of digital forensic extraction, decoding and analysis solutions, has introduced an enhanced version of its UFED InField solution featuring new selective extraction capabilities to make accessing specific live device data quick and easy.

ABBYY has partnered with Japan's Amedia to create the Amedia Live Reader application -- a mobile optical character reader for the visually impaired.

DocsCorp has announced a new release of its document comparison tool compareDocs, which enables users to compare two versions of a document for changes. The 4.2 U2 release adds support for the recently-released NetDocuments ndOffice. iManage Work 9.3 (64-bit), and Microsoft Office 2010, 2013, and 2016 (64-bit).

Salsify claims its new expanded product content management (PCM) platform for distributed commerce is designed to transform product content management from an administrative burden to a driver of new revenue, increased productivity, and market share growth.

AvePoint has announced the availability of DocAve Governance Automation Service Pack (SP) 8, providing a single governance system to manage the latest SharePoint versions – including SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, and SharePoint Online – under a centralised platform.

Japanese tech-giant Fujitsu will showcase its end-to-end digital modernization approach at its World Tour roadshow, due to reach Australian shores in July under the theme ‘Human Centric Innovation in Action’. The program will focus on the rapid acceleration of digital technologies and examine the ways in which they are fuelling innovation and transformation. The Australian stop-over will be hosted at the Hilton Sydney on Thursday 21st July and at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 26th July.

ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data (Australia) has deployed Nuance Power PDF to reduce its current PDF costs.

The Citadel Group Limited (CGL), a $200 million listed Australian solution provider to Governments and the private sector, has acquired Kapish for $A17.5 million. Kapish is one of only two Australian Gold Business Partners for the HPE Content Manager (ex TRIM/RM) suite of document and records management solutions (the other is Optus).