Document & Records Management

Canon Australia and Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand have announced a partnership to host Canon’s Therefore Online workflow and information management solution on Fujitsu’s cloud platform from early 2014. 

Freightways Limited has extended its presence in the Australian and New Zealand information management market with the purchase of two document destruction businesses:

Standards Australia has published three Australian Standards and an Australian Technical Specification that provide the means for healthcare providers to exchange documents securely via the internet.

Every industry sector has different reasons for taking the trouble to implement  a records management system. Australian SharePoint systems integrator OBS has identified the top five benefits a records management system can bring to the resources sector. 

Government records and archive authorities around the country have developed a range of policies, standards and guidelines to help organisations better manage the capture of digital information. However, there appear to be some major structural obstacles preventing effective digital archive appraisal and permanent records transfer. 

Geoscience Australia has spent over 12 years implementing EDRMS and has come a long way since installing its first version of TRIM in 2001. As Australia's national agency for geoscience research and geospatial information, Geoscience Australia plays a key role in assisting mining and oil & gas exploration in Australia and improving Australia's ability to deal with natural disasters. Some of the Agency’s recent activity includes developing flood maps to analyse how to prevent future disasters such as the Brisbane Floods of 2012, and analysing the devastating impact of Cyclone Yasi.

ABBYY has launched FineReader Pro for Mac, a professional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application for efficient document scanning and conversion on the Mac platform. 

Colligo's Briefcase 3.6 update adds the ability for mobile workers to annotate PDFs and edit Microsoft Office documents on their devices while offline, and then sync changes back to SharePoint.

Less than half of NSW public sector agencies have identified the digital information needed to support their high risk business processes, according to a state-wide survey on digital information management.

Global freight and logistics company Panalpina claims to be the first to achieve completely paperless flights for general air freight. Using its own 747-8 freighter planes, the freight forwarder now operates several paperless (e-freight) port-to-port services with final destination in Europe, Hong Kong and the U.S.

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