Document & Records Management
Brother Industries of Japan has jumped out of the block as a potential new owner for the Kodak Document Imaging business, but the final sale will not proceed until at least June and in the meantime other companies can beat the Japanese multinationals' offer of around $US210 million
Accusoft has launched Prizm Document Converter, a high-speed conversion program that quickly converts any of more than 300 supported formats – including PDF, MS Office, images/graphics, and CAD – to many supported output formats, including PDF, raster files such as PNG and JPEG for use in web applications, or SVG format for use in HTML5 applications.
Workshare has added Android to the list of mobile platforms supported by its cloud-based document collaboration and comparison platform. The iOS edition was launched late last year.
The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade has announced Fujitsu Australia as the winner of a $100.8 million tender to completely overhaul the systems it employs to issue Australian passports. The process is expected to take five years.
A smarter approach to the challenge of Big Data can be achieved through better knowledge management, says Victorian Department of Primary Industry specialist Richard Vines.
On the final hearing day of a Queensland parliamentary inquiry into the release of Fitzgerald Inquiry documents, Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) Commissioner George Fox defended Director of Information Peter Duell, who has taken ultimate responsibility for changing the embargo date on sensitive documents.
In what it says is an Australian first, 'virtual fax' service FaxMate is giving its customers the option of receiving faxes into Google Drive, Google's cloud storage service.
Although electronic record-keeping has become a must, many organisations are still taking a haphazard approach, according to a global survey on information governance conducted by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management). Senior management seems to be ignoring the risks; in fact, 31 percent of responding organisations report that poor electronic recordkeeping is causing problems with regulators, auditors and courts.
Technology for detecting sexually explicit image content has been added to the "app store" for forensic software platform EnCase from Guidance Software.
Workshare has announced integration of its enterprise collaboration applications with Microsoft SharePoint and Autonomy iManage. It claims the solution bridges the gap between traditional document management systems (DMS) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems.
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