IBM has acquired AlchemyAPI for an undisclosed amount, a platform used by more than 40,000 developers of cognitive computing applications. The acquisition will expand the reach of IBM’s Watson natural language processing solutions.

Attensity has announced its new Semantic Annotation product which is designed to integrate into existing enterprise systems to automatically and intelligently extract highly accurate real-time insights from large volumes of disparate data

FileBound Australia has announced that the FileBound document and workflow automation software is the first offering in Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia’s WeOptimise Cloud.

Coveo has announced the availability of several new and updated Connectors for third-party cloud storage, product lifecycle and social media feeds for its leading Enterprise Search Platform.

A2iA has unveiled  its newest software toolkit, A2iA TextReader, which features a new inhouse developed technology for full text transcription. Developed by A2iA’s in-house R&D Team, the same  engine can be used for printed and cursive text recognition, enabling all types of documents be transformed into searchable and editable formats – without the use of a dictionary.

Kodak Alaris is targeting service bureaus, business process outsourcers (BPOs), and large multinational organisations with the launch of a new high speed scanner model offering throughput of more than 200 pages per minute.

Contex has released the SD One, a wide format scanner designed for the desktop and the scanning of oversized engineering and construction drawings for immediate cloud sharing.

ZL Technologies has announced the availability of version 8.0.1 of its ZL Unified Archive, a  single-platform approach to archiving, eDiscovery, compliance and supervision, records management, and storage requirements designed to add leverage in analytics. ZL says UA's approach to consolidating data resources into an aggregated pool of single data copies provides a revolutionary foundation for application of unstructured analytics within the living business environment. It says while competing solutions create or attempt to integrate disparate "silos" of data, ZL UA takes a unified approach by eliminating siloed architecture and ensuring that only one data copy is stored, retention policies are coordinated, and one consistent search is performed.

PremierPoint Solutions has announced two significant new features in Term Sync 2.0, a SharePoint add-on that is claimed to provide the missing link between a company’s business data and its SharePoint taxonomy. Term Sync 2.0 now has two significant new features: support for synchronisation of hierarchical term sets and improved performance in processing, resulting in faster synchronisation.

Australasian eForms and eSigning service, Secured Signing, has announced an update to its capabilities beginning with a new contemporary flat design of the cloud platform.