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Although familiar with Nuance as an innovator and supplier of speech recognition software, leading Victorian regional law firm, Harwood Andrews, was unaware that the company offered a PDF solution. It was not until the law firm accidentally came across Nuance Power PDF at a legal conference that they realised the software existed and could possibly prove to be the PDF solution they needed.

Data Analytics and Natural Language Processing are emerging as potential lifesavers for modern organisations at risk of drowning in rivers of unstructured data. ABBYY is one of a number of leading enterprise software developers to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the task of transforming the rushing torrent into intelligent and actionable information, via a technology known as Compreno. IDM asked Yury Koryukin, Managing Director of ABBYY Australia, to explain how semantic understanding of natural language can help organisations keep their head above water.

Behavioural change is hard. Really hard. There are two key reasons why. Firstly, change is hard. Secondly, people only change when they can see it is in their best interest to do so. This fundamental fact lies behind the failure of many attempts to move to a decentralised capture solution and get users involved in record-keeping.

Australian organisations may be missing out on opportunities to improve their business decision-making by not considering to hire a data scientist. The recent Teradata Data Analysis Index revealed that 88 per cent of companies use analytics to make decisions based on data but nearly the same percentage (86 per cent) have no plans to hire a data scientist.

From drone technology to high volume media storage, archiving and distribution, the forthcoming SMPTE Australia Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE15), be held 14-17 July in Sydney will feature a range of solutions from over 130 exhibitors across two halls and outdoor displays.

Telstra Health has launched ReadyCare, its GP telemedicine service that gives Australians the choice to connect with a doctor using phone or video and receive advice, treatment, diagnosis and prescriptions.

Promised as a flagbearer for the brave new world of eHealth when it opens in April 2016, the $1.85 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital (nRAH) will instead have to cope with a “hybrid” environment including paper records and workflow due to delays in a decade long program to implement a state-wide electronic health record.

Henry Davis York, a leading Australian law firm with over 200 lawyers, has implemented Intapp Flow to connect key business applications and automate workflows. The firm is also using Intapp Time for time recording.

Having been raised as an identical twin, I’m very familiar with confusion around believing two items are exactly the same when in reality they are just very similar. I’ve seen the terms “Information Governance” and “Data Governance” used interchangeably and would like to clarify what I believe are the major differences.

Typically, ECM companies like Knowledgeone Corporation deal direct with customers wanting records and document management software and those same customers deal direct with offsite records storage companies like those that run O’Neil software.