Document & Records Management

Handshake Software, a provider of SharePoint-based products and services to the legal market, has announced support for Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online with its portal and integration products.

FileBound Australia, a provider of document and work management software and services, has signed a distribution agreement with RatchetSoft, developer of Ratchet-X, a powerful desktop application integration tool.

ABBYY, the provider of recognition, data capture and language-based text analytics technologies, has joined the Laserfiche Professional Developer Partnership (PDP) program. Laserfiche will integrate ABBYY’s FlexiCapture recognition and data capture software with its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products.

A survey of senior IT executives at 481 organizations in the US and UK on topics related to information governance has found that while almost all have a formal information governance program currently in place or are in the planning stages, only 40% of organizations are “high performers”.

Microsoft partners, harmon.ie and Gimmal have announced a strategic partnership to help business users with an easy way to capture, classify, store, find and retrieve important documents and emails in SharePoint, directly from Outlook.

Toshiba (Australia) has announced it will be working alongside document management systems provider, ELO, to implement new document management solutions for Council of the Ageing (COTA) Victoria.

DocsCorp has launched compareDocs cloud, a new web-hosted version of its document comparison software. Running on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, compareDocs through Office 365 enables users to compare Word to Word and Word to PDF documents on a PC desktop, Surface Pro or iPad, all via the cloud.

I have been involved in a lot of ECM implementations and guess how many have included a File Plan?

As an Australian police officer prepares to encounter a suspected terrorist or criminal gang member, arrayed on his or her iPad mini screen are the up to the minute results of a comprehensive search of more than 1000 federal, state and territory police databases detailing all essential facts about the individual. This may not be the case today, but is the future aim of a major IT collaboration and consolidation program underway at the Australian Crime Commission (ACC). IDM spoke with Chief Information Officer Narelle Lovett to learn more about the quest.

Adherence to the influential Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) standard is an important yardstick for assessing Electronic Document and Records Systems (EDRMS) beyond the borders of the southern state. The Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) has just finished its first major revision of the VERS standard since 2002, acknowledging government’s need for increased flexibility in where digital records are kept and how they are represented.

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