One of the final frontiers before moving to electronic recordkeeping is eliminating 'wet signatures', or hand-signing. In most cases in Australasia, we are allowed to replace hand-signing with an electronic method. This is good news, since manual records are becoming increasingly difficult to manage, as more and more business transactions and information management moves to digital systems.
Managing documents and email is of huge importance to lawyers in every type of practice, but in the case of leading independent Australian law firm Johnson Winter & Slattery (JWS), the issue becomes even more critical owing to the many complex disputes and deals it handles for prominent local and international clients.
When opportunity knocks, it seldom knocks twice. For Ross Vincent, Special Projects Manager at NZ business Retail Dimension (now known as RD), the upheaval associated with relocating and restructuring the business in 2017 provided a unique opportunity to improve business processes, one that he grabbed with both hands.
British American Tobacco (BAT) has deployed OpenText Extended ECM for SAP SuccessFactors as part of overhauling its HR processes and records management.
While it’s fair to say that BYOD and the wider use of mobile devices resulted in a steady decline in paper usage - the reality is that the paperless office is still a pipe dream for most.
Whitsunday Regional Councll in Queensland has announced that it will implement cloud-based business process management software from Promapp to support the organisation’s day-to-day operational processes. The decision, which was part of the council’s strategic plan prior to Tropical Cyclone Debbie, was expedited by the havoc caused by the storm earlier in the year. Promapp will underpin process support for a major new council IT system which is slated to go live within the next 12 months.
Skilful voice impersonators are able to fool state-of-the-art speaker recognition systems, as these systems generally aren’t efficient yet in recognising voice modifications, according to new research from the University of Eastern Finland. The vulnerability of speaker recognition systems poses significant security concerns.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released further draft guidance on the notifiable data breaches (NDB) regime that comes into effect in just over three months’ time. It is also hosting a Webinar on 21 November 2017 at 12.00 pm AEDT to explain how the obligations of the scheme will work in practice.
