Document & Records Management

Sony has unveiled the second generation of its Optical Disc Archive System, which adopts a new, high-capacity optical media developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic.  This newest media, rated with a 100-year shelf life, doubles the capacity of a single cartridge to 3.3 TB.

Toshiba (Australia) has announced a win with document management partner ELO to implement  document management solutions for Victoria’s Community Housing Ltd (CHL). CHL originated in Australia in 1993 and is a national and international housing provider delivering affordable housing in four regions of the world.

Text recognition developer A2iA is expanding its list of supported languages and character-types, to allow English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Spanish documents to be automatically transcribed without a dictionary, regardless of whether written in machine print or cursive handwriting, and transformed into searchable and editable electronic data.

By PCM I mean Physical Content Management - registering, managing, tracking and tracing "stuff" that isn't digital.

A solution employing Objectif Lune PlanetPress Capture and 1,500 Anoto digital pens is allowing South African multi-brand furniture retailer Lewis Group to eliminate paperwork generated by credit applications

Oxygen Forensics has released Forensic Detective 8.3, which expands data extraction features and adds new acquisition methods.

Annotation and redaction capabilities are advanced features of document/image viewers. A group of users who share documents among themselves can collaborate via annotations on the contents of the documents. Redactions provide content level securities that enable the protection of sensitive information in portions of a document from users who have access to the entire document.

Australian technology company Nuix has revealed its role in assisting the examination of leaked documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, currently causing embarrassment to British Prime Minister David Cameron and other global figures

The number of large organizations citing risk and compliance as the largest driver for Information Management (IM) has risen hugely in the past year, from 38 percent to 59 percent, according to new AIIM research launched recently.

Hospital and healthcare provider to Geelong and south western Victoria, Barwon Health, has deployed a metadata registry and information asset register based on the aka software platform from Australia’s Synercon Group. This followed a successful proof of concept in early 2015.

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