Document & Records Management

A Victorian government agency responsible for managing over $A36B of major projects has been blasted in an Auditor-General's report that found it was unable to produce records of the contracts it was managing and undertook dubious employment practices.

Tighter SharePoint integration and support for touchscreens are highlights of Adobe’s latest update to the Acrobat Professional XI. due for release on October 15.

NZ startup Pingar has announced the availability of its solution that automates the assignment of metadata to documents for SharePoint 2010. This makes it easier to search and organise large amounts of unstructured data.

Intelledox has announced the latest release of its cloud-based document generation and smart e-forms solution, now called infiniti.

The agency which provides IT services to the Victorian government has been let off the hook from an FOI request from the Age newspaper, with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) deciding the expensive and time-consuming job of restoring email and calendars from backup tapes was too onerous.

A survey into filesharing at enterprise and government organisations in Australia and New Zealand conducted by IDM and Australia’s Institute for Information Management (IIM) came up with an almost even split between those who restrict the use of popular filesharing apps such as DropBox and YouSendIt and those who turn a blind eye.

 

ABBYY has updated its FineScanner app to provide enhanced mobile capture capabilities on the iPad and iPhone.

 

Concept Searching, a developer of  semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software has entered into a partnership agreement with Kodak’s Document Imaging Business. 

Canon has announced it intends to acquire full ownership of Belgian capture, OCR and document conversion software developer, I.R.I.S. Group SA. It has held a 17% stake in the company since July 2009.

Basic concepts such as ‘original, reliable, irrefutable evidence’ are being turned on their head by the digital society, according to David Fricker, Director-General of the National Archives of Australia.

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