Document & Records Management
Mizuho Financial Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and Cognizant, a provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, have announced a strategic agreement to develop a blockchain solution for secure record-keeping of documents among Mizuho Financial Group companies around the world.
Leading independent Australian law firm Hall & Wilcox, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth and Canberra, has implemented Nikec Binder and Nikec Docstore to improve the efficiency with legal document bibles and audits.
Local Government software developer Civica has launched a new SharePoint platform to provide online portals, enterprise workflow, and integration and CRM capabilities. Contact360 is decribed as a customer contact and transactional platform for councils in Australia and New Zealand.
ABBYY has announced two new language-based products enabling businesses to understand and act on complex, unstructured information. Based on the company’s Compreno natural-language processing (NLP) technology, ABBYY InfoExtractor SDK and ABBYY Smart Classifier enable development of next generation smart business process applications, accelerating business decisions and insights for industries, including oil and gas, insurance, healthcare, financial services and government, among others.
While the company has not yet gone completely paperless, an automated data extraction solution using ABBYY FlexiCapture solution has streamlined the vast majority of paper-based processes for Clinical Care Professionals. The Australian organisation provides a wide range of nursing care, therapy services, and care services to people in their own homes.
Veritas Technologies has announced new innovations to Enterprise Vault 12 and Data Insight 5.1 including advanced classification, support for Box, and automated remediation workflows. Together they provide businesses with critical visibility into their unstructured data and empower informed decisions about what critical information to retain and what to delete for compliance, business value and discovery.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the huge US government agency that processes more than 230 million tax returns annually, has revealed its inability to preserve its employees’ emails and track those records down when needed.
A2iA has released a new version of A2iA Mobility, its patented software toolkit dedicated to offline mobile data recognition and image analysis.
PDF standards enable users to embed or include non-visible metadata within PDFs as attribute name and attribute value pairs. This feature can be used to embed referential metadata normally stored and used external to the files to help find or otherwise work with them. Here are some reasons why embedding metadata values can be a good idea:
For many industries data is not seen as a principle part of its operations, even in industries or companies where data is regarded as required; it is often subservient to the elements of its main business and therefore even those organisations/teams with departments such as ‘Information Management’; data is forgotten about, or disregarded, by many people as they focus on what they see as the important matter at hand.
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