Industry Insider

  • Design ahead for information integrity

    You never know how the information and data you collect today will be used in the future.  The integrity of information and data management practices is always tested when information and data is reused. This really rings true when it’s accessed for a purpose other than was originally intended, or as in the following example, following a significant period of time between uses.

  • Five common misconceptions about intelligent capture

    1. The goal is pass through automation. The goal for 90% of situations is improved human productivity – NOT pass through automation. Other than very structured forms where under ten data relatively simple (numeric, machine printed for example) fields need to be extracted, typically 80+% of extracted forms will need some human validation or correction.

  • DocuSign doubles customer base in FY16

    DocuSign claims to have has doubled its Australian customer base in eSignature and Digital Transaction Management (DTM) in the last financial year, taking on more than 1,000 local customers since launching in the region two years ago.

  • Gartner survey finds most not digitally “ready”

    A recent Gartner survey found that just 41 percent of surveyed IT professionals believe their IT organisation to be ready for the digital business of the next two years. Twenty nine percent of those surveyed said that engagement with the demands of digital business would be their primary duty or a significant part of their duties.

  • Microsoft keeps offshore emails private after US judgement

    Microsoft has retained the right to keep private messages stored on a mail server in Ireland, which the US government wanted for a drug investigation. The decision by a US appeals court is seen as having a major flow on effect on data security throughout the US technology industry.

  • Social rebirthing for OpenText ECM

    OpenText is having another stab at weaning us off email as a collaboration tool, with a new social media add-on to its ECM platform it calls Bandaroo.

  • K1Corp smashes the barriers to ECM adoption

    Enterprise content management (ECM) systems are ideal for document-intensive organisations that are looking for a cost-effective way to eliminate paper-based workflow and filing systems. However, one of the major obstacles to ECM adoption is upfront software licensing costs, a barrier that Knowledgeone Corporation is eliminating with a revolutionary new Pricing Model for the RecFind 6 Enterprise Content Management Solution.

  • Only 5% of UK businesses have fully automated AP processes: survey

    Ninety-five per cent of UK organisations are still using paper and manual data entry in their finance function, with only 5% describing their accounts payable (AP) processes as ‘fully automated’, according to a new survey by business automation software provider V1.