Enterprise Applications

RPA challenge inspires SAP/Oracle veteran Tim Ebbeck

Tim Ebbeck is Senior Vice President and Managing Director in ANZ, Automation Anywhere. Tim has spent the past 30 years transforming some of the world’s largest technology companies including Oracle, SAP and NBN Co in Australia. In an interview with IDM, he outlined his key priorities for Automation Anywhere in ANZ, including the opening of three new operations in Canberra, Sydney and Auckland before year-end, with plans to further expand in 2019.

NSW Land Registry announces blockchain trial 

Chromaway AP, the Asia Pacific distributor and reseller for blockchain developer Chromaway AB, has announced it will work with New South Wales Land Registry Services (NSW LRS) to create a blockchain-based proof of concept for electronic property conveyancing (eConveyancing).

OpenText offers Extended ECM for Dynamics 365

OpenText has announced the availability of OpenText Extended ECM Enabler for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer Service. The new solution, developed in partnership with Contesto, promises to securely and seamlessly integrate content services into business processes.

Covata promises ‘Single Pane’ Visibility and Control over Sensitive Data

An Enterprise Security Console launched by data security specialist Covata promises to provide C-level executives, information owners, and IT administrators with a single pane of glass to discover and understand where sensitive data is stored and whether it is appropriately secured.

Protecting the ‘right to be forgotten’ in the age of blockchain

There’s been a lot of hype about blockchain over the past year. Although best known as the technology that underpins Bitcoin, blockchain is starting to disrupt other industries, from supply chains to energy trading.

Geoscience Australia Chooses Appian to Streamline Financial Processes

Appian has announced it is helping Geoscience Australia improve and digitise the processes supporting travel card integration within the organisation’s financial systems.

How RPA Can Make Data Extraction and Migration Easier

Is there a role for robotic process automation (RPA) in data extraction and migration? A contextual definition of data migration provided by UiPath is “the movement of data from an older legacy system to its new replacement system”. The crux of the matter is that legacy systems will be switched off upon data extraction and migration. So, migration should be handled properly, because once it’s switched off, there’s no turning back.

Esker Purchase-to-Pay adds PunchOut Catalogue Feature

Esker has announced the launch of a new PunchOut catalogue feature for its Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) automation solution. Esker’s new functionality enables users to “punch out” from their procurement application to select online catalogues so that they can order anything online without leaving Esker’s P2P solution. As a result, users save time while purchasing at contract-negotiated prices.

SAP Unveils Machine Learning and Analytics Updates

SAP has announced an expansion of its Machine Learning capabilities that will enable users to build increasingly sophisticated corporate chat bots easily. SAP also announced an investment in intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) that is intended to help automate repetitive processes.

An easier way to view SharePoint content

Esri has announced a new capability in ArcGIS Maps for SharePoint that lets users map and search SharePoint content more easily. Called ArcGIS Map Search, the app part allows ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise users to drag files hosted in SharePoint onto a map to geotag them for easy search later.

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