The Australian federal government is exploring the feasibility of establishing a whole-of-government offering for email and desktop productivity tools.

The NSW Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network (JH&FMHN) has gone live with the Orion Health EMR (electronic medical record) Suite to support the organisation goal to deliver complete electronic medical records across the New South Wales public health system. 

The vast majority of Australian businesses are now using some form of cloud computing and cloud-based email is a common choice for local organisations. Since the start of this year, retailer Woolworths and publishers News Corp and Fairfax have announced plans to switch their on-premises email systems to Google Apps, while Qantas and the Queensland Government said they were shifting to Microsoft’s Office 365.

The fax number may have disappeared off most business cards these days but fax technology is still a vital part of many essential business processes in 2014. The question for organisations today is whether they have optimised document automation and information capture for fax in their business processes.