Document & Records Management

The NSW auditor general has called for the Office of Local Government to develop a cyber security policy to ensure a consistent response across councils after finding 80% don’t have a cyber security framework.

Between January 2017 and January 2020, DocsCorp reports a 181% increase in the users of its document comparison software compareDocs. The number of individual companies using compareDocs nearly doubled in that same period.

EncompaaS – Enterprise Compliance as-a-Service – promises a new solution to the governance dilemma: How do you transform into an agile digital organisation while maintaining control across all your content, applications and services, whether on-premises or increasingly in the cloud. EncompaaS CEO Jesse Todd explains how.

Trustifi, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) email security company, has incorporated a new AI-enabled feature into its email encryption and DLP (data loss prevention) solution that also works via Optical Character Recognition technology (OCR). This integrated OCR tool scans email attachments such as images and PDF files.

Many enterprises try to use records management principles from the paper era to manage records in the digital era, but the growing volume, variety, and velocity of electronic records requires a new
approach.

On the heels of Google announcing half a billion people talk to its voice assistant every month and the rise of business voice apps like Alexa for Business and Oracle AI Voice, there is now a global surge towards voice in the workplace. In Australia last month, Telstra signed a deal with ASX listed voice AI platform Dubber enabling business customers to monitor calls across any device, joining Optus, Cisco Webex calling and over 100 global telcos offering customers this AI monitoring service.

Employers have managed employees for many years relying on the employee records exemption contained in the Privacy Act. However, in the recent case of Lee v Superior Wood [2019] FWCFB 2946, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) turned the common understanding of the employee records exemption on its head.

Australian technology start up NoahFace has announced the general availability of its eponymous time and attendance technology platform, NoahFace, which enables organisations to accurately track and report employee attendance and comply with the new Fair Work Act Award changes which will come into force on March 1, 2020.

Over 40% of privacy compliance technology will rely on artificial intelligence (AI) by 2023, up from 5% today, according to analyst firm Gartner, Inc.  

DocuSign has announced its intent to acquire one of the leading contract analytics and AI technology providers, Seal Software, for $US188 million in cash.

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