Enterprise Applications

Austroads is undertaking an ambitious project to establish a harmonised road asset data standard for use in Australia and New Zealand.

Information Builders has updated its Omni-Patient offering, an information management solution that integrates and cleanses disparate sets of healthcare data, including multiple electronic medical records (EMRs) as well as financial and HR systems.

Local Government software developer Civica has launched a new SharePoint platform to provide online portals, enterprise workflow, and integration and CRM capabilities. Contact360 is decribed as a customer contact and transactional platform for councils in Australia and New Zealand.

ABBYY has announced two new language-based products enabling businesses to understand and act on complex, unstructured information. Based on the company’s Compreno natural-language processing (NLP) technology, ABBYY InfoExtractor SDK and ABBYY Smart Classifier enable development of next generation smart business process applications, accelerating business decisions and insights for industries, including oil and gas, insurance, healthcare, financial services and government, among others.

Working across a number of industries over the last few years it always surprised me that Big Data projects either struggle with meeting records management requirements or ignore them altogether.  My surprise comes from the fact that not only is Records Management a compliance practice, but it is one that can literally pay for itself.

LEAD Technologies has released a major update to the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Product lines. This update includes across-the-board enhancements to Optical Character Recognition including speed, accuracy and memory usage.

As the world moves towards the big data era, society will undergo a major shift. Big data is already transforming many aspects of our life and forcing us to reconsider basic principles, as we evaluate how to best utilise big data while preventing potential harm. Simple changes to existing rules will not be sufficient to temper big data’s dark side.

Each year ABBYY holds numerous International Technology Summits, where we share our latest product innovations and future technology roadmaps with our partners and developers.

The 2015 ABBYY North America Technology Summit was held in California in November, where a team from ABBYY Australia was joined by local distributor ACA Pacific and channel partners to experience the latest developments in data capture and data analytics.

A new survey has found that 92 percent of US Federal IT managers say it’s urgent for their agency to modernize legacy applications, citing the largest driving factors as security issues (42 percent), time required to manage and/or maintain systems (36 percent), and inflexibility and integration issues (31 percent).

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