The goal of many businesses for the past three decades has been to go paperless. While this is a worthy and environmentally-sound objective, it is not one that has been successfully met by most businesses. In fact, according to Coopers and Lybrand there are over four trillion paper documents in the U.S. alone and that number is growing at a rate of 22 percent, or about 880 billion paper documents a year.
The Australian government has assigned responsibility for a planned study into the costs and benefits of adopting electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) to the Australian Taxation Office. The move was welcomed by the Digital Business Council (Council) which is working to publish an e-invoicing Interoperability Framework on July 1, 2016.
Office Delve is an Office 365 service that suggests relevant information from across Office 365 to a specific user. It runs on top of Office Graph, a database that captures relationships between objects and people. A report from analyst firm Gartner warns that Delve's recommendations can turn into unwanted disclosure.
For businesses already using SharePoint for document management, turning to it for records management seems like a natural next step. Using the same system for records and document management — instead of bringing in an additional system — can lead to cost reduction, better business alignment and better usability.
CSIRO’s Data61 will undertake a review to fully examine the far-reaching potential and implications for both government and industry of the adoption of ‘blockchain’ technology.
BreastScreen Victoria has developed an automated data capture solution to improve its interactions with women seeking to obtain early detection of breast cancer, resulting in a major improvement to workflow.
Workers wondering where their time goes should look at how they manage emails, new research suggests. In a survey of US chief financial officers (CFOs) conducted for recruitment firm Robert Half, 17 percent said the time they spend on work email is wasted.
It can happen to any company. Data breaches aren’t limited to targeted attacks like thefts or hackings, and can arise from far less exciting internal errors like good old simple mistakes (think typing in the wrong email address and hitting send on a customer list…).
A new, vastly updated version of the international records management standard, ISO15489, is due to be released at a big gathering of world standards makers in Wellington, in the first week of May. The gathering will be the annual meeting of the International Standards Organisation’s Technical Committee for information and documentation, TC46.
