Document & Records Management

With the transition process in Afghanistan under way, the repatriation of records accumulated in the Middle East Area of Operations has become a focus for Australia’s Defence Forces. Colonel Kath Stewart is leading the Defence Information Management Tiger Team, which is tackling the challenge head-on.

All across Australia, state governments have either introduced or are introducing laws to prevent criminal association. These have been popularly dubbed the  Anti-Bikie laws, but they can be used to target members of any criminal organisation. But once you have the laws, how do you make them work? A police force in Long Beach California is using enterprise content management (ECM) technology from Laserfiche to successfully target the sinister Sureños, the largest gang in California with hundreds of thousands of members. 

A French Hospital in the city of Sète in southern France is live with an innovative RFID-based medical record management system that leverages Tageos’ ready-to-use passive UHF RFID labels.

IBM has added its name to the list of cloud document management contenders with the launch of its IBM SmartCloud Docs hosted solution.

UK-based, Cloud Trade is bringing its paperless document exchange solution to the Asia-Pacific region via an alliance with business process outsourcer (BPO) - Converga.

Integration with Nuance's  eCopy ShareScan scanning and workflow solutions is providing Hyland Software with capabilities in Health Information Management.

Wondershare has announced a major upgrade to its Mac-based PDF Editor Pro and PDF Editor applications to Version 3.0 which includes significant upgrades for creating and filling out PDF forms with fully interactive fields.

As discoverable content continues to grow at an accelerating rate, much of it has found its way into Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint's collaboration tools, its flexible management of documents and other data, and tight integration with Microsoft's Office suite has spurred its wide adoption in the legal industry. But SharePoint's flexibility also presents challenges, both for organisations that need to manage data contained in SharePoint sites, and for law firms tasked with executing sound electronic data discovery (EDD) methods.

A previous edition of Image & Data Manager magazine (page 22 Nov/Dec 2012 issue) asked “Can technology classify records better than a human”.  Records Management Officer Neil McGrath has developed an approach that integrates barcode labelling of emails within an EDRMS to assist in tracking email conversations and reducing duplication while providing improved aggregation and linking.

FileBound announced the latest release of the FileBound Office Automation solution which includes FileBound Touch – an interface that optimises the user experience on touch enabled devices.

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