A $A1.3 million project by Australia’s Commonwealth Treasury in 2010–11 to use SharePoint as a portal to its TRIM EDRMS was never completed, symptomatic of the snail’s pace of adoption of centralised digital record-keeping at three government agencies examined by the the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
Queensland’s new state government has scrapped a $A47.3m project to deliver a centralised email, identity management and authentication service using Exchange 2007.
Canon is launching into invoice automation for business and government customers in Australia and New Zealand with an offering based on the I.R.I.S. capture and OCR platform developed by a Canon European subsidiary company.
Australia’s leading building products manufacturer, Brickworks Limited has gone live with accounts payable (AP) automation including complex routing for review/approval and receipting for processing invoices in Australia. It intends to roll the system out across New Zealand in late June.
Why don’t vendors of ERP or financials software include invoice automation as a native feature of their products? The task and procedure of getting invoices and information into an ERP system or financials software is a manual process in many organisations that creates additional headaches and costs that negatively impact the bottom line profitability.
Worldwide spending on enterprise application software will total $US120.4 billion in 2012, a 4.5 percent increase from 2011 spending n, according to Gartner, Inc. With only limited signs of improvement in the near term, the growth projection for 2012 has been adjusted downward from 5 percent in the previous forecast in 1Q12.
New Zealand Courts Minister Chester Borrows has demonstrated new technology under development by the NZ Ministry of Justice, called eBench, which will significantly reduce the court’s reliance on paper.
Wanganui District Council, a 43,000 resident district on the North Island of New Zealand, is using CommVault Simpana 9 software to protect vital public records, provide employees with uninterrupted access to critical operational data and ensure compliance with New Zealand's Public Records Act.
South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has selected Autonomy's intelligent mobile backup solution, Connected Backup, to protect vital information across the group.
Civica UK has acquired Gateway Computing a specialist supplier of electronic document management (EDM) systems together with associated business process services including outsourced document scanning.
