Business Process & Workflow

Deloitte has announced an alliance with Kira Systems to bring the power of machine learning to the workplace, an innovation it believes could help free workers from the tedium of reviewing contracts and other documents. 

A White Paper produced by Australia’s Department of Defence has identified a need for $A5 billion in additional funding over previous plans to meet Defence’s information and communications technology needs across the next decade.

Top Image Systems (TIS) has announced a global reseller agreement with Xerox to give customers end-to-end automation solutions for industry-specific, content-driven processes.  Content processing solutions from TIS will be integrated into Xerox’s workflow automation suite, which helps simplify end-to-end processes for a range of industries including financial services, healthcare and government.

Local Government software developer Civica has launched a new SharePoint platform to provide online portals, enterprise workflow, and integration and CRM capabilities. Contact360 is decribed as a customer contact and transactional platform for councils in Australia and New Zealand.

ABBYY has announced two new language-based products enabling businesses to understand and act on complex, unstructured information. Based on the company’s Compreno natural-language processing (NLP) technology, ABBYY InfoExtractor SDK and ABBYY Smart Classifier enable development of next generation smart business process applications, accelerating business decisions and insights for industries, including oil and gas, insurance, healthcare, financial services and government, among others.

While the company has not yet gone completely paperless, an automated data extraction solution using ABBYY FlexiCapture solution has streamlined the vast majority of paper-based processes for Clinical Care Professionals. The Australian organisation provides a wide range of nursing care, therapy services, and care services to people in their own homes.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the huge US government agency that processes more than 230 million tax returns annually, has revealed its inability to preserve its employees’ emails and track those records down when needed.

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of SharePoint? If you’re like most people, you probably answered document management or an intranet portal  – two of SharePoint’s best-known uses.

For many industries data is not seen as a principle part of its operations, even in industries or companies where data is regarded as required; it is often subservient to the elements of its main business and therefore even those organisations/teams with departments such as ‘Information Management’; data is forgotten about, or disregarded, by many people as they focus on what they see as the important matter at hand.

A critical aspect of the National Blood Authority’s work - collaborating across all Australian governments to manage and coordinate an adequate, safe and affordable supply of blood and blood products and services - has become significantly easier thanks to an innovative and secure private workspace provided via Objective Connect.

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