Business Process & Workflow

Kodak Alaris has announced a series of scanner, software, and service enhancements featured in the Alaris IN2 Ecosystem, described as a powerful combination of best-in- class scanners, software, services and partnerships designed to transform data chaos into critical information to drive efficiency.

Funding constraints and legacy infrastructure have been cited as the main barrier to Australian government agencies transitioning to digital information management, according to a report by the National Archives of Australia (NAA).

Kofax has announced the availability of ReadSoft Online TM R9, a cloud-based capture and invoice processing solution.

eSignLive for Salesforce CPQ is now available on the Salesforce AppExchange, providing an easy-to-integrate app which digitises the configure-price-quote (CPQ) process by bringing e-signing capabilities to sales quotes, proposals and agreements directly from Salesforce CPQ.

ABBYY is enabling ‘instant’ text extraction from the preview screen of mobile devices via a newly introduced Real-Time Recognition SDK (RTR SDK). Realtime recognition enables quicker, simpler extraction of text from documents and objects placed in the live video stream from smartphone and mobile cameras.

Office Information Australia (OIA), a provider of Content Services and Workflow Management in the APAC region, has announced an offer which allows iManage customers to implement a Workflow system with a Document Approval workflow for free.

Classification is an essential step in almost any kind of content management process. Even before the period of digital transformation, the concept of ‘in- formation overload’ was a reality. First coined by Professor Bertram Gross over 50 years ago, he defined it as being directly proportional to a reduction in decision quality. Now we are busier and faced with more information than before – in both our personal and professional lives. Text is all around us – in the form of PDFs, office documents, e-mails and much more.

Fujitsu has announced the availability in Australia and New Zealand of two new A3-capable document scanners: the fi-7700 and fi-7600.

Online financial platform, myprosperity, has added eSignLive e-signatures to allow Australian accountants and financial advisers to offer their clients the ability to review and electronically sign financial documents.

As technology advances, opportunities to update business practices are offered. However, the law is often one step behind, making it difficult for companies to employ new efficient business practices. Although many transactions are now conducted electronically, there are several exceptions to the validity of electronic signatures which limit the use and effectiveness of electronic communications. Business must keep these limitations in mind.

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