Document & Records Management

Organisations using SAP as a core business system should have a flying start in providing information contained in the database to decision makers through the transaction systems – but what about the information not in the SAP database? Abie Spies sets out the challenge.

 

An insurance company in San Francisco, a manufacturer in Germany, a professional services consulting firm in Toronto - all looking to use SharePoint 2010 as their document management platform, but finding that they cannot satisfy their requirements by using SharePoint’s ‘outof- the-box’ functionality. Noel Williams looks at how requirements were met by using a combination of SharePoint 2010 and add-on software from the MacroView Document Management Framework.

 

According to a recent global survey on data wiping practices, Kroll Ontrack found less than half of businesses regularly deploy a method of erasing sensitive data from old computers and hard drives.

 

DocsCorp has announced the availability of new integration between its flagship pdfDocs Desktop product and Open Text Content Server (former Livelink).

 

A report issued by the NSW Auditor-General, Peter Achterstraat, has found that a lack of critical infrastructure means the State Records Authority is declining NSW Government agencies’ requests to archive digital information, despite a ministerial memorandum acknowledging the increasing use of digital information.

 

Police briefs that could run up to 10,000 pages were causing headaches for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) for Western Australia, which has found relief in a paperless workflow utilising Kodak scanners and EzeScan software.

 

PDF workflow specialist DocScorp has announced enhanced integration with the Objective Enterprise Content Management and collaboration platform at the firm’s annual user conference in Sydney.

CVISION Technologies is promising the fastest and most accurate OCR available with the launch of PdfCompressor 5.0, which can process 20+ pages per second. The new release also includes improvements in file compression quality, OCR recognition accuracy, and compression processing speed.

 

Cadac Organice has announced Transmit, a solution for document control and transmittal management in SharePoint.

 

Application fees for Freedom Information requests have been abolished and processing charges cut in new measures announced by the Minister for Privacy and Freedom of Information, Brendan O’Connor.

 

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