Document & Records Management

Responding to criticism of her use of a personal email account for US Government business, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that recordkeeping requirements would be met because she forwarded mail from her personal email account to US State Department staff where they would be permanently archived. However a new report from the US Office of the Inspector General has blasted Departmental email management practices and concludes that staff only keep a tiny fraction as records.

Acrobat DC, a new product from Adobe, has been launched at the heart of the company’s new Adobe Document Cloud. It delivers free e-signing as part of the integrated solution, via eSign Services (formerly Adobe EchoSign), to allow users to electronically send and sign any document from any device for no additional cost.

ABBYY has announced three software development kits (SDKs) designed for applications that retrieve business-relevant knowledge from unstructured information and turn big data into manageable corporate asset. All products are based on the company’s technology for natural language processing, which is claimed to understand the meaning of processed text with almost human precision.

There has been widespread dismay at revelations that former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a personal email server for both private and official government communication during her term in office. A number of senior Australian and New Zealand government ministers have confirmed that they don’t follow the Clinton protocol in carrying out their own affairs, although it appears there are no specific restrictions that prevent the practice.

Like a train wreck happening in slow motion right in front of us, Hillary has tried desperately to explain the rationale behind adopting convenience ahead of governance.

A four year program to establish an Electronic Health Record for 80,000 Australia's Defence Personnel has come in for some heavy criticism by the Australian National Audit Office.

Nikec Solutions has launched a new extranet platform for law firms to provide a secure way of managing project and matter related documents known as Nikec Hub.

One of the largest information destruction services in Australia is now certified for all operations across the entire country by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID).

A new purpose-built preservation and storage facility for Australia's 40 million Commonwealth records is being built in the nation’s capital.

Hornby Transport Services, a specialist carrier in the Transport & Logistics industry, has announced its collaboration with Smartcat Digital and ELO Digital Office. Hornby Transport implemented ELO Document Management Software platform late 2014 and has taken its Quality control and Compliance standards to the next level with Best Practise management of vital process records.

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