Business Process & Workflow

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.

Australian hosting provider CloudRecover and the American security platform vendor FinalCode have announced a new partnership to offer Final Code’s secure file sharing solutions across a number of applications.

The Earthquake Commission (EQC), a natural disaster insurer that also provides research and education to New Zealand residents, has selected a new cloud ECM platform to enhance its claims management processing.

Organisations as diverse as Amicus, Blackmores, Objective Corporation, Readify and RSL Queensland are some of the first Australian users of Microsoft’s new chat-based workspace in Office 365, Teams.

Enterprise content management (ECM) implementations experienced rapid growth and significant client investments from the late 90s through the financial downturn of 2008. With the reduction in storage costs as well as innovation brought about by robust networks, computers, and Internet browsers, organizations were finally free to truly capture the promise of ECM. Whether leveraging internal resources or working with outside consultants, ECM customers were able to build out purpose-driven solutions on Documentum, OpenText, FileNet/IBM, or other ECM platforms.

Australia’s Randstad is helping job seekers and employees save time and money by digitising its traditionally paper-based processes together with DocuSign.

The procurement team at Manningham City Council in Melbourne is leading the local authority towards digital signatures with an implementation of the Secured Signing platform.

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