Document & Records Management

There are many challenges to implementing SharePoint, both seen and unseen. As a result there are plenty of pitfalls and traps to fall into, and it is very challenging to pick just 10 mistakes.  Poor governance, not having an intranet strategy, or not having an intranet committee are traditional mistakes, but hopefully there is more awareness about these issues now. Marcus Dervin, director of Sydney SharePoint/Office 365 consultancy WebVine. focusses on more specific issues that are are often overlooked, but can derail a SharePoint project team’s best intentions.

ABBYY has announced the latest release of FlexiCapture 10, its software for data and document capture, now provides access to all document scanning and verification functions via Web interfaces, for deployment in SaaS and cloud environments.

Parascript has launched a new software toolkit that automatically recognises document types by look and content (whether static or variable in position) and can locate key data in machine print, hand print and/or cursive to help organisations easily extract important information. 

​UK document management and imaging software author, Version One, has announced a partnership agreement with Eclipse Computing (Australia), a provider of enterprise and financials applications across the Asia Pacific region.

ECM has gone mobile at Ricoh Australia. The firm is providing a growing number of staff with access to business related information while they are off-site or travelling using Laserfiche Mobile for iPad and iPhone.

Content management provider Alfresco has updated its Records Management (RM) platform to Version 2.0, extending compliance support for all kinds of content from traditional office documents to rich media files and from scanned images to team collaboration files.

Formfile a certified ELO business partner has delivered a Document Management Solution (DMS) for South Pacific Laundry, a 16 year old commercial laundry servicing many of Melbourne’s finest hotels from a 8,700 square metre $13.5 million facility in Brunswick East.

The Australian Department of Defence has undertaken field trials to deploy Microsoft SharePoint into their tactical theatre. The tests have specifically focused on deploying SharePoint within a low and unstable bandwidth environments and the initial results are extremely positive.

Anbul Technologies has developed a Document Assembly platform for HP TRIM and SharePoint that can be used individually or in a combined deployment to compile standard documents, letters, forms, contracts in Microsoft Word.

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