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Have you ever asked a colleague for an answer to your question? If you're lucky, you knew who was going to have the answer. Chances are you sent them an email. Chances further, they will have it and they'll send you a reply saying, "Yes, here's the answer to your question." And six months later, that email is buried somewhere amongst your mass of emails.

Situated between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, Queensland’s Moreton Bay Region is one of the fastest growing urban areas in Australia.  Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC), Australia’s third largest council, has implemented an Objective ECM System for more than 1200 active users to support the delivery of more efficient and effective ways of working inside the council, and new digital services to the public.

A new cost-effective alternative for large-scale newspaper digitisation is being launched by DL Consulting, the company behind the Veridian collection management software and related newspaper digitisation services as well as an online search portal for the world’s historical newspaper archives at www.elephind.com.

Australia’s National Archives has announced the winners of its inaugural Digital Excellence Awards, with successful Agency SharePoint rollouts leading the way.

While in the process of moving offices, Australian legal firm, Hall & Wilcox Lawyers, decided to seize the opportunity and set their firm on the path to becoming paperless. The mid-sized, commercial law firm was keen to cull the volume of paper it had amassed over the years and implement digital capability where possible to reduce future paper volumes.

As hospitals in the US move toward meeting Electronic Health Records (EHR) Meaningful Use requirements, they’re trying to eliminate as much paperwork as possible. To this end, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (SVMHS) is using Access’s electronic signatures solution at registration.

SharePoint solutions provider Colligo is to open a new office in Australia in response to the 49% growth in partner business in the region from 2013 to 2014.

Customer communications for most organisations is no longer just about delivering paper to the mailbox and then archiving the files forever. For various reasons, organisations are now actively managing documents and the data they contain during the entire document lifecycle. To illustrate the point, I want to share with you areas that are intersecting in our industries today and why they are important to consider:

The cognitive computing market is estimated to grow from $US2.5 billion in 2014 to $US12.5B by 2019 according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.

With the volume of information available to us today online it is easy to identify vendors to include in RFIs and RFPs. Vendors that have consistently performed well in analyst’s research, are well respected in the market and have slick websites with marchitecture that appears to address your every whim. You likely do 70% of the research and know a fair bit about them before they even get in the door.