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  • Bringing APIs and EDI together for streamlined business communication

    As businesses embrace digital communication methods to streamline supply chains, tension is growing between two different types of automated information exchange. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are vying with electronic data interchange (EDI) for supremacy, especially in industries where businesses exchange high volumes of information.

  • Process Automation is Essential to Digital Transformation – Study finds

    A new report by process automation developer Camunda has found nine out of ten IT decision makers say process automation is essential to digital transformation.  The survey of 400 IT decision makers across the US and Europe found that process automation is a linchpin for digital transformation. 

  • Google launches preview of AI Document processing tools

    Google has launched a preview of the Document AI (DocAI) platform, a console for hosted document processing. The company says it’s aimed at automating and validating documents by extracting data from documents and making them available to business apps and users.

  • Canadian Government adopts Cloud-Based Document Capture

    Kodak Alaris and Nimble Information Strategies have entered into an agreement with a Canadian Provincial Government agency to streamline the way applications for citizen services are digitized. The solution all but eliminates user error during the document scanning process. 

  • Imagine Counting Mail In Ballots Manually…

    Processing mail-in voter ballots is time-consuming and demands reliable compliance safeguards, unquestionable accuracy, and a quick turn-around time for processing ballots. Electionz.com is New Zealand’s leading election services provider. In 2019, they deployed ABBYY’s Digital Intelligence technology to automate mail-in voter-ballot processing for the Christchurch local elections.

  • The US is taking on Google in a huge antitrust case. It could change the face of online search

    The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for unlawful monopolisation. The department says Google’s conduct harms competition and consumers, and reduces the ability of new innovative companies to develop and compete. It’s the most important monopolisation case in the US since 1998, when the DoJ brought proceedings against Microsoft.

  • Vital Signs: Google's huge market share doesn't automatically make it a monopoly

    The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a lawsuit accusing Google of using “anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in the markets” for search and advertising. It is the most significant antitrust case since the US government took on Microsoft in 1998 for using its dominant position as the provider of the Windows operating system to force PC makers to bundle its Internet Explorer web browser.

  • Fuji Xerox in court over alleged unfair contract terms

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Fuji Xerox Australia and a related company (together, Fuji), alleging that in total nine types of Fuji’s standard form small business contracts contain 173 unfair contract terms.