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  • How to Make Email and Other Technology Interruptions Productive

    The average knowledge worker enjoys a measly five minutes of uninterrupted time and, once interrupted, half won’t even get back to what they were doing in the first place. Yet organizational expectations or social pressures make it hard to resist the urge to check incoming emails or text messages — pressing tasks be damned.

  • Law Firm tackles Legal Document Metadata

    Canadian-based insurance litigation firm, Hughes Amys LLP, has replaced an outdated metadata solution with BigHand Scrub following a firm-wide Microsoft Office upgrade.

  • How USYD is Managing Masses of Email

    The University of Sydney is pursuing a multi-pronged strategy for capturing records from email systems, according to Records Manager May Robertson.

  • Parliamentary inquiry warns of cyber risk

    An Inquiry by the Commonwealth Parliament’s Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) has reported concern over failure of many Australian agencies to comply with minimum cybersecurity standards.

  • Digitisation: A formattable foe or magnificent opportunity?

    The term ‘digitisation’ evokes a sense of total transformation and specifically for those organisations that have been in business for over 20 years, one where legacy systems or operational processes have been successfully transitioned into a state of binary form. The clear goal; improve efficiency and transparency of business activities for both clients and staff. 

  • Objective 2017 Awards Highlight Digital Innovation

    A project by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage (WA) to digitise over 200,000 Crown Land information artefacts dating back to 1833 has been recognised at the annual Objective customer innovation awards.

  • What should Australian companies be doing right now to protect our privacy

    Australians are increasingly concerned about how companies handle their personal data, especially online. Faced with the increasing likelihood that this data will be compromised, either through cyber attacks or mishandling, companies are now being forced into a more comprehensive approach to collecting and protecting customers’ personal data. The question remains - what is the best approach to achieving this goal?

  • Combining Claims Processing with X-ray Scanning—How Hard Can It Be?

    Anyone who has experience will tell you that automating insurance claims with X-ray scanning is a multifaceted and time-consuming process. Dental claims include a number of different forms, supporting documentation and patient X-rays, all of which must be properly classified, sorted, scanned and filed.