Business Process & Workflow

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.

New research has revealed that the majority of organizations do not have a coherent long-term strategy for their vital digital information even though virtually all of them (98%) are required to keep information for 10 years or longer. Further, while 97% of information professionals understand the need for a specialised approach to these assets, only 11% are storing them in systems specifically designed to ensure long-term protection and access. This gap has economic, legal, and business competitiveness implications.

Healthworld, a leading supplier of Natural Medicines in Australia and New Zealand, began looking in 2015 for a scanning solution to scan documents and integrate with SharePoint.

While a lot of speculation remains around Dell's proposed $US60 billion-plus acquisition of EMC, which could close any time in the next few months, the company’s Enterprise Content Division is bringing its key executives to Sydney on June 9 for a full day seminar on the future landscape of content management in the digital era.

ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data (Australia) has deployed Nuance Power PDF to reduce its current PDF costs.

The Citadel Group Limited (CGL), a $200 million listed Australian solution provider to Governments and the private sector, has acquired Kapish for $A17.5 million. Kapish is one of only two Australian Gold Business Partners for the HPE Content Manager (ex TRIM/RM) suite of document and records management solutions (the other is Optus).

Upland Software has launched a new release of its FileBound document management suite featuring new forms capabilities and improved workflow automation. These new functions reduce common time-consuming tasks and provide simplified workflow and document management.

For government CIOs, establishing an e-government model is just the first step on a journey to becoming a mature digital services organisation.

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