Business Process & Workflow

The Australian Human Rights Commission was drowning in a sea of duplicates, tangled in nested folders and perplexed by lost documents. Funding shortfalls and other challenges saw the Commission unable to implement an EDRMS solution that was viable.

Cloud content management company Box Inc. is revamping its workflow automation tool Box Relay, making it easier for companies to automate business processes.

What is a document really and what is its future? A very useful construct and definition of a document is provided by Joe Shepley of Doculabs in a recent article he wrote for CMSWire called, “The End of the Document? Not So Fast.”

Enterprise Capture leader ABBYY is moving up the enterprise software food chain with the announcement it will acquire US startup TimelinePI. TimelinePI provides a process intelligence platform designed to empower users to understand, monitor and optimize any business process.

ABBYY has announced a series of innovations to ABBYY FlexiCapture, its AI-enabled enterprise platform to automate document processing workflows and convert unstructured content into structured data.

Enterprise organizations continue to push the boundaries in search of technologies that can understand and liberate meaning from unstructured content – documents, email communications, images, and text – given content is central to all business processes and activities.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) leader Blue Prism is Introducing intelligent document processing capability to its RPA suite with the Beta launch of Blue Prism Decipher.

Sky Discovery, in partnership with Hillogic, an Australian based I.T software development company, have launched an industry first PDF agent for Relativity that allows PDFing documents for discovery on the fly. Australian federal and state practice notes default to exchanging in a PDF format.  This unique solution will automatically convert documents to PDF as they are tagged as discoverable and stamps them in accordance with the practice notes.

ActivePDF has announced the release of Xtractor 9.1.0, its PDF data extraction tool, adding new functionality and an overall improved user experience. Xtractor, a robust .NET API that quickly and accurately extracts targeted data within PDF files, has been reengineered from the ground up based upon direct user feedback.

Recently I attended a business networking event and, as you’d expect, the question “So what do you do?” was asked. I gave much the same answer as I’ve given hundreds of times before in that situation and my elevator pitch included the words, ‘business process automation’ (BPA). 

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