Document & Records Management

Upland Software has launched announced the latest version of the FileBound cloud-native document and workflow automation software claiming it takes the product’s analytics, workflow and electronic forms capability to the next level in the cloud.

Informative Graphics Corporation has announced the latest version of Brava! Enterprise includes a Doc Merge add-on option to combine multiple files of any type or split long documents to create new PDF or TIFF files from within the HTML interface. (Doc Merge is also available as a standalone product.) 

Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) and Microsoft (Thailand) Limited have  signed a memorandum of understanding that will provide 8 million students and 400,000 teachers across Thailand with access to Microsoft Office 365 for education. The agreement, which also includes the extension of the highly successful Partners in Learning initiative to 2019, represents the single biggest cloud service deployment for Microsoft in the education sector globally.

ABBYY has announced the new release of ABBYY Recognition Server, its server-based software for automated, unattended document conversion. The latest release offers new functions for more-efficient conversion of large archives, plus enhanced Microsoft SharePoint integration that allows turning images in SharePoint-based document libraries into searchable content. The new version also offers advanced PDF creation capabilities, new fault-tolerance mechanisms, and enhanced Arabic optical character recognition (OCR).

Energistics, the upstream oil and gas open standards consortium, has published the Energy Industry Profile (EIP) Version 1.0 of ISO 19115-1. The EIP is an open, non-proprietary metadata exchange standard designed to document structured and unstructured information resources of importance to members of the energy community and to maximize metadata interoperability within the industry. Energistics' Geoportal is a Reference Implementation of a searchable catalog compliant with the EIP metadata standard. The implementation demonstrates discovery of distributed resources documented by EIP and any of three metadata standards transformable to EIP (ISO 19115, ISO 19115-2, FGDC). 

Digitalization, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning, but most CIOs do not feel prepared for this next era, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. The survey showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating the core of IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future. The survey found that 51 percent of CIOs are concerned that the digital torrent is coming faster than they can cope and 42 percent don't feel that they have the talent needed to face this future.  

Recordkeeping is the process of making and maintaining complete, accurate and reliable evidence of business transactions, and government records are crucial to individuals seeking to establish their identities or ensure their entitlements to basic human rights. With their enormous capacity to store information quickly and cheaply over a timescale of years, the computerisation of the workplace should have made the task of recordkeeping within organisations easier. In fact, standards of recordkeeping in many organisations have declined over the 25 or so years since computers became common in the workplace. 

Objective Corporation has announced the launch of a new solution for creating, approving and publishing business critical documents, the Objective Content Creation (ECC) Platform. 

The introduction of digital signatures into local government planning review processes is expected to accelerate with the news that version 9.5 of the Trapeze Desktop imaging and viewing solution will include native support for CoSign digital signatures.

Corel has updated the WordPerfect Office X7 suite with new features including PDF Forms, MacroManager and Mail Merge Expert, while a new WordPerfect iPad app lets users create, edit and view WordPerfect documents on their iPad.

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