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Salience for Android is claimed to be the first native text analytics package for a mobile operating system. Developer Lexalytics says it can be used by application developers to offer mobile users sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) and analytics to any app that uses text: email, SMS and chat, reviews, comparison shopping, social media, travel, hospitality and more.

Text recognition developer A2iA is expanding its list of supported languages and character-types, to allow English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Spanish documents to be automatically transcribed without a dictionary, regardless of whether written in machine print or cursive handwriting, and transformed into searchable and editable electronic data.

Beezy Inc., a developer of enterprise collaboration solution for SharePoint and Office 365, has announced the availability of new capabilities through integration with Microsoft's Office Graph.

Office Information Australia (OIA), a provider of information management solutions and services in the Asia Pacific region, has launched the OIA iManage Cloud for enterprise content management.

Oxygen Forensics has released Forensic Detective 8.3, which expands data extraction features and adds new acquisition methods.

Ricoh Australia has introduced Microsoft Azure to its IT services offerings and the company recently joined the Microsoft Partner Network.

Basware, a provider of e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay solutions, has acquired Verian, a cloud-based solution provider in the US purchase-to-pay market.

Ediscovery software provider X1 has launched X1 Distributed Discovery, claimed to provide a simple yet powerful and scalable platform for organisations to search and assess unstructured information across their organization within minutes.

Veritas Technologies has announced support for Google Cloud Platform with its NetBackup 7.7 and Backup Exec 15 solutions. Organisations can use the Google public cloud as a backup destination, run back up and perform disaster recovery to or from the Google Cloud Platform.

A new field force automation solution called Capture OnTheGo provides organisations inundated with transactional forms an automated and portable solution for their employees to access and update crucial documents while in the field.