Document & Records Management

When handling personal information about employees, Australian private sector employers haven’t had to concern themselves too much with obligations imposed by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) because of the application of the ‘employee records exemption’.

As a follow-up to my post Why a File Plan should be part of your ECM Implementation, I would like to address two additional questions based on the tremendous amount of feedback and discussion that post generated.

MxHero, developer of email and cloud convergence technology, has launched a new feature that allows companies to more easily file and collaborate over important emails. Part of its Mail2Cloud Archive suite, the new feature provides automatic and intelligent filing of email to popular cloud storage.

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.

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