Business Process & Workflow

Australian organisations are forecast to spend almost A$70 million on business process management suites (BPMS) in 2013, an increase of 10.4 percent over 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide spending on BPMS is expected to reach US$2.8 billion, up 9.5 percent compared to 2012.

Readdle has launched a SaaS solution that helps any organisation set up a paperless workflow on mobile devices, PDF Expert Enterprise. It allows companies to completely replace paper documents with iPads for a wide range of tasks from board meetings to form filling and sales in the field.

Companies around the globe are recognising the need to convert purchase orders, invoices, and payments to electronic formats. There are many vendors responding to this demand an equally global basis with solutions to managing the internal processing of documents and invoices.  There are also others offering hosted network solutions to connect organisations wishing to electronically exchanging electronic payment (ePayment) and remittance data.

Budget difficulties could see Australia lagging behind a forecast digital revolution in healthcare for the Asia-Pacific region, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.

Eastman Kodak has announced a deal to swap its imaging business for a $US2.8 billion debt owed to a pension fund, and will not proceed with a previously announced $US210 million sale of its its document imaging unit to Brother Industries.

The potential for Big Data and Cloud Computing to deliver  increased business efficiency, growth and innovation will be put under the microscope at a Gold Coast TechConnect on May 15 .

Tasmanian BPO and records management specialist Acrodata has expanded its operations interstate with the opening of its Melbourne office.

Australian online financial services provider SuperIQ has completed the successful deployment of an eFLOW Digital Mailroom solution to classify and process between 500-600 documents per day.

The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade has announced Fujitsu Australia as the winner of a $100.8 million tender to completely overhaul the systems it employs to issue Australian passports. The process is expected to take five years.

Australian solutions provider Efficiency Leaders has picked up a trio of awards at the annual Kofax user conference held in San Diego in 2013.

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