Industry Insider

An insurance company in San Francisco, a manufacturer in Germany, a professional services consulting firm in Toronto - all looking to use SharePoint 2010 as their document management platform, but finding that they cannot satisfy their requirements by using SharePoint’s ‘outof- the-box’ functionality. Noel Williams looks at how requirements were met by using a combination of SharePoint 2010 and add-on software from the MacroView Document Management Framework.

US firm AccessData is making a concerted push into the Australian ediscovery market, launching its new Sydney regional headquarters and announcing software support for the unique requirements of Australia’s Courts and litigation support environment.

According to a recent global survey on data wiping practices, Kroll Ontrack found less than half of businesses regularly deploy a method of erasing sensitive data from old computers and hard drives.

Israel’s Top Image Systems (TIS) has has been selected by the National Statistics Office (NSO) in Thailand to provide its eFLOW OCR technology to process 38 million forms for the Thailand census.

The New Zealand Parliament has called a tender for intranet and internet website content management software, although the solution will have to integrate with a .Net platform for document management.

Canberra based media digitisation and archiving business DAMsmart has announced the commencement of a project to digitise and preserve the videotape holdings of the National Library of Australia (NLA).

A report issued by the NSW Auditor-General, Peter Achterstraat, has found that a lack of critical infrastructure means the State Records Authority is declining NSW Government agencies’ requests to archive digital information, despite a ministerial memorandum acknowledging the increasing use of digital information.

Police briefs that could run up to 10,000 pages were causing headaches for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) for Western Australia, which has found relief in a paperless workflow utilising Kodak scanners and EzeScan software.

Open Text is embedding its enterprise content management solutions deeper into Oracle database and middleware technology, with the two companies agree to closer cooperation in the ECM marketplace.

Laserfiche has completed a long term mission in 2010 to achieve VERS certifcation, opening the door for a concerted assault on the Australian and regional ECM marketplace in 2011.