Document & Records Management
If you are one of 2.2 billion Facebook users worldwide, you have probably been alarmed by the recent coverage of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a story that began when The Guardian revealed 50 million (now thought to be 87 million) user profiles had been retrieved and shared without the consent of users.
Queensland updated its Ministerial Code of Conduct last month, which reflects the state’s legislation regarding official accountability. The Code now bans Ministers from using private email and messaging apps, such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Wickr and Snapchat, for ministerial business.
Designed for high volume document and image conversion, Nuance Communications has launched OmniPage Server 2 featuring an enhanced user experience with flexible configuration options, API-enabled document classification and cloud deployment options through Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Dunedin City Council supports a population of 120,000 and is one of New Zealand's largest territorial authority areas. Environmental Health staff at Dunedin City Council (DCC) are charged with protecting and improving the health of the city’s residents.
Australian solution provider Informotion is now one of the largest Micro Focus Secure Content Management Solutions reseller in the world – after taking onboard a nationwide team of consultants specialising in the iconic HPE TRIM/CM platform.
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.
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.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) wants to implement a new way to identify taxpayers, issuing a tender for a mobile OCR solution to allow identity documents (e.g. driver’s licence, passport or Medicare card) to be scanned on a mobile device and the fields prefilled using data held in the national Document Verification Service (DVS).
PDF/A, PDF/UA, PDF/X, PDF/VT, PDF/E and of course PDF itself are all certified ISO standards. Each of these variants fulfils certain requirements and is preferred in different sectors accordingly. However, these formats are not mutually exclusive, as the following two examples will show. Those of you who had the dubious pleasure of learning about set theory in school may recall the concept of intersecting sets…
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