Document & Records Management

AvePoint has announced updates to its Cloud Governance solution that will enhance an organization’s ability to safely collaborate with external users in Microsoft Teams.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has announced its move to replace SharePoint with iManage Work 10 for document, email management and collaboration for its 6,000 global users.

Microsoft has announced Autodesk AutoCAD integration in OneDrive and SharePoint, allowing the opening and editing of DWG files in the AutoCAD desktop application, the AutoCAD mobile app, and the new AutoCAD web app.

The Australian Digital Health Agency has announced it will provide $A30,000 to software vendors to integrate new standards into their existing clinical information and secure messaging systems, as part of the push to eliminate paper-based messaging in healthcare.

A survey of 150 US federal government decisionmakers has found an overreliance on manual processes suggests agencies may be overconfident in their ability to comply with the upcoming electronic record mandate.

There are numerous tools on the market, including freeware, with which users can create PDFs. But are the results always satisfactory? Not always, as it can happen that a certain PDF file can be opened with one reader and not with another.

The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has released a new category in its software licensing procurement panel for Commonwealth Government Departments and Agencies covering commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software. The panel includes a number of specialists in digital records management software, but the DTA has confirmed that the Department of Finance Investment Moratorium will still apply to the new panel.

On February 25, 2019, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum  and Hackmanit GmbH published pdf-insecurity.org, a detailed explanation of several vulnerabilities they had identified in PDF viewers and online validation services relevant to signature validation in digitally-signed PDF documents. The vulnerabilities are pertinent only to such digitally-signed documents, and not to PDF in general.

DocsCorp has extended the reach of its bulk document processing platform, contentCrawler, to Dropbox and Dropbox Business to ensure documents are 100% searchable in the cloud and on-premises. contentCrawler is powered by the ABBYY OCR engine.

The EDRMS formerly known as TRIM/Records Manager has a long history as the record-keeping system of choice at all layers of Australian government. One of the consequences of Content Manager (CM), as it is now called under new owners Micro Focus, being so firmly entrenched is the perennial challenge of version upgrades. These can be magnified by the fact that an EDRMs is generally very tightly bound with other business systems and a key element of daily workflow, making the potential for change significant.

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