Industry Insider

  • ANZ Organisations Spending More on Software: IDC

    With COVID-19 significantly increasing the pace of innovation, the beginning of 2021 had witnessed a strong rebound in software spending across ANZ. According to IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, 1H2021, the total ANZ software market reached US$7.5 billion, showing a double-digit annual growth in both countries.

  • Announcing the Email Archiving with PDF Liaison Working Group

    As a means of communication, email is ubiquitous. As a result, an email is often the only evidence of a transaction or interaction between individuals. Yet email is surprisingly easy to forge or tamper. It is therefore critical that the file formats used to represent email outside of their original systems capture and retain the metadata necessary to demonstrate trustworthiness.

  • US finance departments continue to rely on paper-based systems

    Esker has released  “2021 State of Finance Report: Digital Transformation & Business Disruption.” The survey reveals that most finance and accounting professionals have undergone at least partial digital transformation, however, the industry is still heavily lacking the next step: a comprehensive automation overhaul of business processes.

  • Digital transformation hindered by lack of skills support

    Elearning vendor D2L has published new research which reveals that while three quarters (75.15 per cent) of respondents agree digital learning enhances the quality of higher education, there remains an urgent need to increase resources, support and digital upskilling for teachers and academics across Australian and New Zealand (A/NZ).

  • How to identify MS Teams sprawl

    With the rise of remote work over the past 18 months, the use of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams has exploded. Microsoft reports that roughly 50% of 365’s 260 million-plus commercial users now use Teams, although some experts place the number of users closer to 300 million.

  • Nitro to acquire European eSign firm Connective

    ASX listed Nitro Software has entered into an agreement to acquire Connective NV (‘Connective’), a leading European-based eSign SaaS provider, for an enterprise value of €70 million (~US$81 million). The transaction will be funded by a A$140 million (~US$104 million) capital raising.  

  • Is Capture on Collision Course With Rpa?

    A new Report from analysis and consulting firm Infosource Software examines the overlap between the traditional Capture market, as well as a subset of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market that includes Capture-type applications. Both offer solutions for the automated ingestion and processing of business inputs.