Document & Records Management
KWizCom, a developer of SharePoint Forms & Workflows, as well as numerous other SharePoint web parts, add-ons and apps, has unveiled a new scanning add-in for Office 365 users, called Scan App.
Records management is becoming more complicated because of the sheer volume of information within companies. To deal with this deluge, some innovative organisations are moving away from declaring information as records and are managing all organisational information from a retention standpoint instead. However, what is retention management, and how can it be effectively leveraged within organisations?
Melbourne based law firm, Sladen Legal, has selected Nikec Hub, the file sharing and collaboration tool from Nikec Solutions, to further improve communication and collaboration with clients. The firm is dedicated to providing expert advice and legal services to private enterprises, they represent some of Melbourne’s most innovative businesses. The firm prides itself as being client driven and having a personal approach to law.
M-Files Corporation has announced a partnership with ABBYY, the global provider of intelligent capture, optical character recognition, language-based and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
A joint Parliamentary Committee has recommended the government provide funding for an upgrade to technology systems at the Australian Electoral Commission to allow scanning and electronic counting of House of Representatives ballot papers. This would need to be accompanied by extensive technical amendments to legislation that governs the way federal elections are managed in Australia.
Findex, an Australian provider of integrated financial advisory and accounting services with, will be rolling out iManage Cloud to 3000 users within the next 6 months.
We humans are swamped with text. It’s not just news and other timely information: Regular people are drowning in legal documents. The problem is so bad we mostly ignore it. Every time a person uses a store’s loyalty rewards card or connects to an online service, his or her activities are governed by the equivalent of hundreds of pages of legalese. Most people pay no attention to these massive documents, often labeled “terms of service,” “user agreement” or “privacy policy.”
IDM recently had the pleasure of interviewing Tommy Petrogiannis, President of eSignLive (formerly Silanis Technology), the electronic signature provider he co-founded in Canada in 1992. Acquired in 2016 by Vasco Data Security International Inc. for $US85 million, eSignLive is using the funding to fuel international growth, which is increasing at three times the rate of people performing transactions electronically in North America.
New research from the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) reveals that 83% of organisations aim to realise direct business value from their long-term digital information, across such areas as market analysis, product innovation, and customer service, but only a minority (16%) have a viable approach for proper governance and preservation.
Despite the long-heralded prospect of the 'paperless office' most offices continue to print documents. Toshiba is hoping the launch of its 2nd Generation erasable printing system will herald a new way to cut down the paper consumption that is driven by the everyday functioning of business and government.
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