Document & Records Management
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…
The cubicle walls in today’s workplace are coming down, nowhere more obvious than at Objective Corporation’s impressive new global HQ, known internally as The Skylab, located in the IT heartland of North Sydney.Moving to the new premises in 2017 required staff hike only a short distance up the road from their old office, however Objective took the opportunity to design a purpose-built new facility for more than 250 staff, including around 100 software engineers and developers, that fully embraced the trend towards activity-based working and digital processes.
When you hear talk about robotics in the distribution centre, you may envision some of the innovations Amazon is using to streamline operations — and make headlines. Maybe you picture self-guided forklifts equipped with sensors and automatic controls stacking inventory in racks soaring high above the distribution to fulfilment without humans getting in the way and slowing things down. But you might be surprised to learn that robots are transforming more than just the physical tasks of fulfilment centres.
A solution to discover, secure and govern personal identifiable information (PII) while “in flight” - as it arrives from a batch or streaming data source or moves between compute platforms - has been launched by StreamSets Inc., Designed with data privacy regulations in mind, StreamSets Data Protector is designed to reduce risk of expensive and embarrassing violations.
German enterprise software developer inovoo has launched a multi-channel capture platform, NOVO CxP, that receives structured and unstructured data and documents in a wide variety of formats, analyses it and hands it over to downstream processes in a standardised fashion.
Although 2018 is expected to be the year that Artificial Intelligence (AI) arrives in the RPA world, it is currently difficult to find many real life applications or concrete examples of robots that demonstrate such capabilities. There is still a long way to go for Intelligent Automation programs to fully adopt cognitive technologies!
Foxit Software has released a PDF Compressor Command Line Tool specifically developed for organizations that use Linux. The new solution integrates ABBYY OCR technology to allows Linux shops to automate their paper to digital document conversion process through the creation of highly compressed and searchable PDF/A compliant files.
Australian firm Sparke Helmore has selected HotDocs as its document automation tool.
Epicor Software as announced the newest release of the DocStar Enterprise Content Management solution.
Within the next two years, 72% of companies are expected to be using robotic process automation (RPA) to minimize costs, reduce transaction times, increase productivity, and improve levels of compliance. At least that’s what is suggested by a 2017 study by global technology research firm Information Services Group, reported on by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply .
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