Document & Records Management

Office365 is set to offer enhanced e-discovery and information governance capabilities with the addition of machine learning technology from US startup Equivio, following its acquisition by Microsoft for an undisclosed sum.

NetDocuments, the cloud-based document and email management service, has acquired Decisiv Email from Recommind. Recommind Australia is responsible for the product development of Decisiv Email, a commercial client and server software for enterprise collaborative email management leader in the legal industry.

Kofax has announced a suite of e-signature solutions for introduction into virtually any business process for internal or external use, known as Kofax SignDoc.  

In 2015 what does an operational records management service look like? In the past it was a much easier task to imagine a records management operation. Crusty records officers located in a registry office, a great big compactus with lots of hardcopy files, a mysterious classification scheme, and the magical skill to find that obscure document when the CEO wanted it. We all know that those days are well and truly past, but what has replaced it and what works best in modern organisations?

Toshiba (Australia) has announced a partnership with ELO to provide Document Management and Workflow solutions.

Top Image Systems is underway on a million dollar project to deploy eFLOW 5 at the Hong Kong subsidiary of one of the five largest international commercial banks in China. 

Understanding your responsibilities when it comes to records and information management has never been more critical, given the risk of heavy fines, prosecution, and civil actions that organisations leave themselves exposed to if their information management house is not in order.

Lexmark International has made another acquisition in the information management area with the $US37 purchase of Toronto-based Claron Technology, a provider of medical image viewing, distribution, sharing and collaboration software technology. 

From the Domesday Book to modern government papers, the UK National Archives' collection of more than 11m historical government and public records is one of the world’s largest. It includes paper and parchment, photographs, maps and paintings, but also a vast number of digital records such as archived government websites, emails and social media posts. Paper may last for thousands of years, but what about the ever-expanding quantity of digital documents?

It was a solitary email that became pivotal to a Royal Commission and a Parliamentary Inquiry; two investigations that have had significant implications for government recordkeeping in South Australia and continue to resonate today.

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