Document & Records Management
Claiming that “forcing GPs to adopt half-baked e-health record [is] a dud idea,” the Australian Medical Association (AMA), has opposed government plans to link GP incentive payments to the adoption of the scheme.
Empired, the Microsoft systems integrator with 926 employees across Australia, New Zealand and the US, will resell Colligo’s mobile content management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365 and OneDrive for Business.
International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has created what it believes to be the UK's first contract robot, to work within its Real Estate practice, putting it at the cutting edge of innovation in the legal sector. The company says it will allow lawyers to focus on higher value work for clients.
Even in today’s digital world, documents proliferate in every part of an organisation – from accounts management (invoices, checks, and remittances) and human resources (employment applications and benefits forms) to engineering and manufacturing (design documents) and sales and marketing (sales plans and marketing collateral). Documents remain a key vehicle for making transactions and business processes work, and so document management continues to be a challenge. Optical character recognition (OCR) was the initial answer to many document-management woes, but in the age of big data analytics, OCR shortcomings can result in bad analytics.
Adobe has announced new e-signature capabilities in Document Cloud that it claims will make electronically signing documents and contracts easier. New functionality includes a visual drag-and-drop Workflow Designer, digital signatures (a more advanced, secure form of e-signatures) and Enterprise Mobility Management and Signature Capture.
Users of Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Acrobat Reader can now access and take common actions on PDF files stored in Dropbox directly from within the Adobe apps, it was announced this week. Dropbox users can open, edit, and save changes to PDF documents in the Adobe apps directly from the Dropbox website, iOS app, or Android app. The two companies say the integration addresses a strong need, as PDF is the most common business file type in Dropbox.
At this year’s InsideNGO conference (annual event for the international relief and development NGO community), Deby MacLeod, Audit and Assurance Principal at accounting firm Clark Nuber PS, recently shared her perspective on how a document management system can simplify the audit process for both parties. She discussed 4 key areas of audit focus along with controls you can put in place that will help you pass with flying colours.
Gimmal, a provider of information management software designed to make Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 a true Enterprise Content Management system, has launched a new product for Physical Information Management (PIM).
Recall has launched a new information governance tool to manage physical and electric records, known as CommandIG, and available as a cloud-based or on-premise solution.
Macquarie University is migrating staff email away from Gmail to Office 365, due to concerns about data sovereignty. The university plans for all staff email and calendars to be migrated to Office 365 by the end of this year.
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