Document & Records Management

Dropbox is developing a new way for its users to access every file even without sufficient storage on their local PC or device, dubbed Project Infinite.

It can happen to any company. Data breaches aren’t limited to targeted attacks like thefts or hackings, and can arise from far less exciting internal errors like good old simple mistakes (think typing in the wrong email address and hitting send on a customer list…).

A new, vastly updated version of the international records management standard, ISO15489, is due to be released at a big gathering of world standards makers in Wellington, in the first week of May.  The gathering will be the annual meeting of the International Standards Organisation’s Technical Committee for information and documentation, TC46.

You’re not alone – the majority of people use email for communications of course (it’s the de facto standard), but also as a collaboration tool. Microsoft Outlook is now also the accidental storage system – a vast amount of an organisation’s knowledge resides in individual users’ inboxes.

iPhone and iPad apps for the Objective Connect document filesharing service are now available from App Store.

Adobe has enhanced enhanced mobile signing with the Adobe Sign app (formerly Adobe eSign Manager DC) for e-signatures now available for iOS and Android. An updated dashboard and improved send for signature workflow have been added along with integration between Adobe Sign and Adobe Experience Manger (AEM) Forms for digital processes.

SharePoint add-ins from harmon.ie have been consolidated into a single, unified offering, updated to that streamline workplace collaboration and make SharePoint easier to use in the enterprise environment.

More than 83% of Australian businesses surveyed for a new study by IDC and Canon confessed to still using still using paper based document processes in 2016, although around the same number claim to have begun their digital transformation journey.

A Chinese consortium led by Apex Technology, which manufactures ink cartridge chips, has agreed to acquire Lexmark for approximately US$4 billion in cash

Acaveo, a developer of file analysis software, has teamed up with Osterman Research to determine how organizations are managing their unstructured data growth. It claims that with ever higher storage costs and security risks associated with massive amounts of unstructured data stored by organizations, Information Governance (IG) initiatives are not gaining momentum as quickly as expected.

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