If you were to ask me a year ago what I would point to as a best practice for data governance, my response would be to look at what financial services firms do to meet their regulatory requirements. Fast-forward to the age of GDPR and the new privacy mandates coming out of California (CCPA), and not only do you have to take into account what your customer wants but you have to also be mindful of security pitfalls.
Canon subsidiary IRIS has launched a new document camera scanner and visualizer, the IRIScan Desk 5, a lightweight device suitable for use in a home or office setting, as well as being portable enough for travel.
The Australian Digital Health Agency has announced it will provide $A30,000 to software vendors to integrate new standards into their existing clinical information and secure messaging systems, as part of the push to eliminate paper-based messaging in healthcare.
A survey of 150 US federal government decisionmakers has found an overreliance on manual processes suggests agencies may be overconfident in their ability to comply with the upcoming electronic record mandate.
There are numerous tools on the market, including freeware, with which users can create PDFs. But are the results always satisfactory? Not always, as it can happen that a certain PDF file can be opened with one reader and not with another.
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has released a new category in its software licensing procurement panel for Commonwealth Government Departments and Agencies covering commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software. The panel includes a number of specialists in digital records management software, but the DTA has confirmed that the Department of Finance Investment Moratorium will still apply to the new panel.
On February 25, 2019, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Hackmanit GmbH published pdf-insecurity.org, a detailed explanation of several vulnerabilities they had identified in PDF viewers and online validation services relevant to signature validation in digitally-signed PDF documents. The vulnerabilities are pertinent only to such digitally-signed documents, and not to PDF in general.
The EDRMS formerly known as TRIM/Records Manager has a long history as the record-keeping system of choice at all layers of Australian government. One of the consequences of Content Manager (CM), as it is now called under new owners Micro Focus, being so firmly entrenched is the perennial challenge of version upgrades. These can be magnified by the fact that an EDRMs is generally very tightly bound with other business systems and a key element of daily workflow, making the potential for change significant.
The process of making AI systems interact more like humans makes some people uncomfortable, but AI is not about replacing humans. In reality, it is much more about removing the robot from humans.
Technology in the communications space has evolved and there are now so many more choices now than there were 10 years ago. Platforms have also become more affordable compared to the expensive systems of yesteryears. In addition, the need to mainintain on-premise infrastructure for collaboration tools has reduced or is non-existent in many companies. Workplaces are moving at a rapid pace in the modern day, bringing with it the need for the workforce to adapt to that pace quicker than ever.
