Document & Records Management

Ever wanted a simple way to create a PDF revision of a document in HPE Records Manager (RM)? Or perhaps just send a document as a PDF in an email? Kapish has launched its new Kapish PDF Wizard to solve the problem.

A new Microsoft Office plug-in from Foxit Software, developed in cooperation with Microsoft, allow users to protect confidential copy in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Users simply mark confidential copy for redaction within the Office application and then generate redacted PDF documents.

During meetings, conferences and training sessions, I am often asked “What can we do to make business processes more efficient? What tools do we need and, most importantly, where do we begin?” It is an absence of answers, experience and motivation that form the greatest obstacles to progress.

Information Leadership has released iWorkplace Records Manager 365, a new SharePoint 365 tool that aims to make good recordkeeping straight-forward and cost-effective for all NZ government agencies, particularly those that are smaller or more budget constrained.

Of course a File Plan and a Taxonomy are not the same thing, but I bet that title got your attention!  Although, I would bet that many folks from the document imaging industry do not really understand what a File Plan is, because most of the time Records Management is outside the bounds of what they are implementing.

A series of deadlines is looming for Australian government agencies under the Government’s Digital Continuity 2020 policy which aims to have all transition to entirely digital work processes by December 31 of that year.

Crossing the gulf from managing data to fine-grained information management is not just a challenge being faced by large organisations, the same journey is underway at many vendors of traditional backup and recovery solutions. Commvault has been undertaking the leap via its flagship Commvault Data Platform.

Objective Corporation is acquiring specialised technology for in the capture, collaboration and manipulation of large documents, complex drawings, maps and plans with the purchase of New Zealand’s Onstream Systems.

Foxit Software has announced the acquisition of Debenu, a provider of software developer and end-user solutions for the global PDF market. Debenu’s CEO, Karl De Abrew, a long-time entrepreneur and visionary in PDF technology, was also a Founder of Nitro.

Veritas Technologies has announced a multi-million dollar investment in new dedicated cloud data centres in Australia targetting the email archiving and e-discovery market.

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