Business Process & Workflow
The convenience of executing legal documentation with electronic signatures must be carefully weighed against issues of enforceability and security. In this update, we explain the decision Williams Group Australia Pty Ltd v Crocker [2015] NSWSC 1907, in which the Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled that a company director was not bound by a guarantee that (apparently) bore his electronic signature.
While most CIOs at the National Health Service (NHS) in England agree that electronic patient records are beneficial, a survey has revealed that almost half are worried about meeting a target of going paperless by 2020, Computer Weekly reports.
Spending by Australian organisations on business process management (BPM) software is forecast to reach A$82.9 million in 2016, an increase of 2.5 percent over last year. In New Zealand, organisations are expected to spend NZ$6.9 million on BPM software in 2016, up 5.5 percent over last year.
HP is selling a range of its enterprise software platforms to Open Text for $US315 million, including the Teleform forms processing application and HP Exstream, HP Output Management, and HP LiquidOffice for customer communications management, process automation and document delivery solutions.
Nuance has released Power PDF 2, an update to its PDF software suite that includes improved document security, enhanced tag editing capabilities, integration of a new “PDF Create” button in Chrome and Firefox, and a new OCR proofreader.
Today’s technologically hungry society is known to adopt new tech more quickly than ever before. Despite this, many large organisations have been relatively reluctant to adopt policies allowing for contracts to be signed electronically.
According to a new market research report, the global text analytics market has a potential to reach $US6.5 billion by 2020, with predictive analytics providing insights on unstructured text as the major driver.
Addressing a recent user forum hosted in Melbourne by reseller and solution provider Kapish, HPE’s David Gould, WW Director, Software, Information Governance Solutions, outlined the upcoming name change for TRIM/RM, as well as a new features of the V9.0 release. Afterwards, IDM’s Bill Dawes spoke with David about the product’s future roadmap.
TRIM 9.0 has arrived a with a bang, and a new name! HPE Content Manager is the official moniker for the newest version of the venerable record-keeping software. HPE is emphasising the governance smarts of the new enterprise content management (ECM) platform which builds on a base that has delivered more than 1800 customer accounts and 1.5 million users across the globe (see IDM’s interview with David Gould, HPE’s WW Director, Software, Information Governance Solutions HERE).
Japanese tech-giant Fujitsu will showcase its end-to-end digital modernization approach at its World Tour roadshow, due to reach Australian shores in July under the theme ‘Human Centric Innovation in Action’. The program will focus on the rapid acceleration of digital technologies and examine the ways in which they are fuelling innovation and transformation. The Australian stop-over will be hosted at the Hilton Sydney on Thursday 21st July and at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 26th July.
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