Document & Records Management
Some companies have the collaboration tools, but not the vision to deploy them effectively, argues Marcus Dervin, director of Sydney SharePoint/Office 365 consultancy WebVine.
A $A1.3 million project by Australia’s Commonwealth Treasury in 2010–11 to use SharePoint as a portal to its TRIM EDRMS was never completed, symptomatic of the snail’s pace of adoption of centralised digital record-keeping at three government agencies examined by the the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
Canon Australia has launched three new black and white A3 Multi-Function Devices (MFDs) that incorporate a document sharing solution called Advanced Box.
CVISION Technologies has launched PdfCompressor for Kofax Capture 5.0, a module that promises to enhance file compression and OCR in Kofax Capture.
Accusoft has released a new version of Docuter, an online cloud based collaboration solution with 25GB of free online storage.
Canon is launching into invoice automation for business and government customers in Australia and New Zealand with an offering based on the I.R.I.S. capture and OCR platform developed by a Canon European subsidiary company.
Australia’s leading building products manufacturer, Brickworks Limited has gone live with accounts payable (AP) automation including complex routing for review/approval and receipting for processing invoices in Australia. It intends to roll the system out across New Zealand in late June.
Why don’t vendors of ERP or financials software include invoice automation as a native feature of their products? The task and procedure of getting invoices and information into an ERP system or financials software is a manual process in many organisations that creates additional headaches and costs that negatively impact the bottom line profitability.
New Zealand Courts Minister Chester Borrows has demonstrated new technology under development by the NZ Ministry of Justice, called eBench, which will significantly reduce the court’s reliance on paper.
Civica UK has acquired Gateway Computing a specialist supplier of electronic document management (EDM) systems together with associated business process services including outsourced document scanning.
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