Document & Records Management

Just as it’s well-nigh impossible to bake a nice cake without cracking a few eggs, introducing “meaningful change” into any large organisation will no doubt require the ruffling of a few feathers, as change of itself necessitates doing things differently. When Melbourne’s Knox City Council took a long hard look at the way it was, or in this case was not, managing retention and disposal of corporate records, the conclusion was that a complete overhaul of its information management practices was warranted.

EIS has announces the release of its medical coding and grouping solution, TurboGrouper.

ANZ and Westpac have teamed with IBM and shopping centre operator Scentre Group and have now successfully digitised the bank guarantee process used for commercial property leasing.

ActivePDF, a developer of PDF automation tools, has announced the release of DocSight OCR to enable business professionals to gain better control of their PDF documents and processes. This allows businesses to convert PDF files into searchable-text, edit and archive PDF in high volume environments with ease, speed and high fidelity.

Veritas Technologies has released the Integrated Classification Engine, a new technology that enables organisations to quickly scan and tag data to ensure that sensitive or risky information is properly managed and protected.

Nuance Communications and Seiko Epson Corp have announced a worldwide strategic partnership to provide Nuance document imaging solutions through Epson distributors and resellers

ORPALIS has released a new major version of its HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit, DocuVieware.

Text analytics is a rather new concept in enterprise content management (ECM) and document management. Many organisations are using automatic categorisation or classification of content, but this is only a small part of how text analytics can be used in organisations.

Ephesoft Inc., developer of Smart Capture software that extracts meaning from unstructured content, has announced the availability of its Cloud Services on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.

Drakes Supermarkets is a family-owned business established in 1974 when Roger Drake purchased his first supermarket. Today, the company is the largest independent grocery retailer in Australia with more than 50 stores across South Australia and Queensland.

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