Document & Records Management
Organizations rarely lack information in this new world of work. Unfortunately, information is gridlocked and unavailable to drive business decisions on the fly, according to new research from Ricoh and IDC.
Lexmark has announced the availability of Kofax View, claimed to be the first document viewing, editing and PDF creation application for Outlook and available for free in the Office Store.
Users who are familiar with a traditional DM system expect to be able to overwrite existing versions of a document. This is because not all changes are so important that they need to be published as a new version of the document. When those users first move to using SharePoint they are pleased to hear that SharePoint supports versioning – not only the Major versions that they are used to but also Minor or Draft versions as well. The only problem is that they cannot overwrite an existing Major version – only an existing Minor version can be overwritten.
There are many reasons organisations are implementing Document Management Software (DMS) to replace traditional paper filing systems, from superior organization and security to increased productivity and profitability. However while many anticipate the paperless office presents a win-win equation for both businesses and their customers, uptake is stalled in many industries as different inherent barriers prevent what seems to be a natural migration.
The push is on to drive interactions between Australians and the Commonwealth Government online, and at the heart of this transformation is the two year old myGov portal managed by the Department of Human Services.
The iManage leadership team has completed a buyout from Hewlett-Packard (HP) for the purchase of the complete iManage business, including its brand, products and services. iManage co-founder and current General Manager Neil Araujo is the CEO of the management-owned company, now one of the largest independent software companies focused on work product management solutions for professional services firms and their clients. Rafiq Mohammadi, also a co-founder and former CTO of iManage, is returning to the company as Chief Scientist.
New legislation means that from January 2016 the National Library of Australia will be able to capture everything from ebooks to blogs, websites to social media—and everything else published on the Internet.
At a point when many were expecting to welcome in a successor to the foundation international record-keeping standard, ISO 15489, issued in 2001, Barbara Reed reflects on why it will be at least another 12 months before it will be published. Barbara, a founder, director and principal consultant at Australia’s Record-keeping Innovation, leads the Australian delegation to the international standards meetings.
Although familiar with Nuance as an innovator and supplier of speech recognition software, leading Victorian regional law firm, Harwood Andrews, was unaware that the company offered a PDF solution. It was not until the law firm accidentally came across Nuance Power PDF at a legal conference that they realised the software existed and could possibly prove to be the PDF solution they needed.
Data Analytics and Natural Language Processing are emerging as potential lifesavers for modern organisations at risk of drowning in rivers of unstructured data. ABBYY is one of a number of leading enterprise software developers to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the task of transforming the rushing torrent into intelligent and actionable information, via a technology known as Compreno. IDM asked Yury Koryukin, Managing Director of ABBYY Australia, to explain how semantic understanding of natural language can help organisations keep their head above water.
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