Business Process & Workflow

harmon.ie has announced that its Outlook add-on, Collage, is now available for free on the Microsoft Office Store. Collage is described as topic-driven interface to help users focus on what matters most, by leveraging the environment where they are most comfortable: email.

A decision of the NSW Court of Appeal sets a potentially dangerous precedent in the context of the effective use of electronic signatures to facilitate transactions, according to a review by HopgoodGanim Partner Paul Cullen, head of the law firm’s Banking and Finance practice

The Northern Territory Department of Health has signed a $525k contract with Alcidion Group to utilise the company’s technology across the Royal Darwin and Alice Springs Hospitals. The Department employs 6,323 staff and manages five public hospitals, and is presently constructing the new Palmerston Regional Hospital, the Northern Territory’s most technologically advanced facility.

Y Soft has released new hardware solutions for its YSoft SafeQ Workflow Solutions Platform. The two hardware solutions, YSoft SafeQube 2 and YSoft Terminal Pro 4, are designed to reduce costs in an organisation’s print and digital transformation infrastructure.

Nintex Workflow Cloud, the company's next generation platform that allows business and IT users to easily build, deploy, manage, and modify digital workflows across any ecosystem, is in Advance Preview. The company has also introduced Nintex App Studio for building custom mobile process applications with clicks instead of code, available for iOS, Android, or Windows devices.

Queensland’s third largest seaport, Port of Townsville, has implemented TechnologyOne’s Enterprise Content Management solution (ECM), strengthening its existing strategic partnership.

OPEX Corporation has announced the release of FalconV, the latest mixed document capture workstation in the Falcon series of scanners. FalconV combines the performance of a high-capacity production scanner with OPEX’s unique prep-reducing process.

OCR is often used to obtain text from image-only files for use in classifying them. However, there are several limitations of OCR that can result in inaccurate or missing text which makes text-based classification difficult or impossible:

Today’s need for automation is real and is not going away. It is undeniable that the intelligent automation market is going through a rapid democratisation process and societies we live in are somehow more inclined to coexist with virtual cognitive workers. The end-goal of automation is not anymore perceived as a Kafkaesque nightmare of unpredictable and uncompromising robots!

OK, this time we’re finally going to be doing away with paper in the office. The end of paper has been trumpeted for decades, but this time – if you believe The Wall St. Journal (“Why the Paperless Office Is Finally on Its Way“) – it’s finally going to happen.

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