Document & Records Management
One of the final frontiers before moving to electronic recordkeeping is eliminating 'wet signatures', or hand-signing. In most cases in Australasia, we are allowed to replace hand-signing with an electronic method. This is good news, since manual records are becoming increasingly difficult to manage, as more and more business transactions and information management moves to digital systems.
Managing documents and email is of huge importance to lawyers in every type of practice, but in the case of leading independent Australian law firm Johnson Winter & Slattery (JWS), the issue becomes even more critical owing to the many complex disputes and deals it handles for prominent local and international clients.
DocsCorp has announced that its document comparison tool, compareDocs , now integrates with the new iManage Work 10 Professional Experience on Windows desktop and in the cloud.
While it’s fair to say that BYOD and the wider use of mobile devices resulted in a steady decline in paper usage - the reality is that the paperless office is still a pipe dream for most.
Kapish has announced a trio of new updates in its Software Product Suite, with new versions of Kapish Easy Link, Kapish Folder Wizard and Kapish Record Remover for users of Microfocus Content Manager (CM)/Records Manager (RM).
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released further draft guidance on the notifiable data breaches (NDB) regime that comes into effect in just over three months’ time. It is also hosting a Webinar on 21 November 2017 at 12.00 pm AEDT to explain how the obligations of the scheme will work in practice.
The NSW Land and Environment Court is conducting a trial of paperless hearings aiming to make justice faster, cheaper and greener.
Is your organisation keen to avoid being listed as one of the Top 10 Worst Social Media Fails of 2017? Celebrities and politicians are not the only entities on social media to conduct monstrous fails. Corporations and government agencies aren’t far behind.
Is PDF/A the right solution to long term archiving? A German academic has published a detailed paper criticising aspects of accessibility and reusability of the format and considering the alternatives.
The Department of Finance is one of the victims of a major data breach that is believed to be the second-largest in Australian history affecting almost 50,000.
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