Industry Insider

Enhanced collaboration through SharePoint is a major Knowledge Management (KM) initiative at aluminium giant Alcoa, helping to raise performance across the global company.

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has selected Objective ECM 8 as the winning tender for its next generation enterprise content management (ECM) platform. 

Australia's federal government departments and agencies have been set a 2015 deadline to make a transition to electronic record-keeping. But is the timetable realistic and what hope has it got of being achieved?

Long term programs are underway to migrate NSW and Queensland Public Hospitals to an integrated Electronic Medical Record (eMR) based on the Millennium platform from US firm Cerner.

Enterprise social software vendor NewsGator Technologies has announced the appointment of Steven Baker as Senior Sales Executive for Australia and New Zealand, based in Sydney. 

Organisations on average manage two or more Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management (DM) or Records Management (RM) systems according to a new survey conducted by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). Even with multiple systems in place, approximately half of content is held in non-ECM/DM systems, and a stunning 82 percent of firms lack an enterprise-wide ECM solution.

Mitre 10, New Zealand’s largest home improvement and garden retailer with more than 150 stores nationwide, has embraced Secured Signing's trusted digital signature SaaS solution to streamline the signing of suppliers’ contracts, Company policies, Human Resources documents, and senior management’s requests for approval.        

It is important to note that some forms pose greater challenges over others, particularly those that are unstructured in nature.  Not all forms are good candidates for OCR and ICR, but often these forms can be changed or redesigned slightly so that information from them can be more easily recognized.

Even with iPhones, iPads, and other digital devices, forms, applications, cheques and documents are still widely used to collect data. While obtaining and leveraging this information from forms is a critical business differentiator, getting the data from documents continues to be a challenge, for many organisations, even in our digital age.

Australian information systems and management consultancy Velrada has secured a number of major state government contracts in Western Australia and South Australia; including a multi-million dollar project with SA Water for the implementation of an organisation wide workflow, search, records and document management solution in partnership with RecordPoint.