Document & Records Management
HP held its Information Governance Forum 2015 across Australian capital cities over the past two weeks. When a presenter referred to the Records Manager product by its previous name TRIM, he joked “I wish I had a dollar every time I did that. “ If there was someone willing to cough up a gold coin each time a speaker through the day-long event made the same mistake he/she would have been much poorer by the end of the day, as it was a routine slipup, understandable given TRIM’s deep roots in the Australian market.
The Queensland Government is about to issue a worldwide “Expression of Interest” to build the state’s first Digital Archive.
eRx Script Exchange has announced reaching the milestone of one billion prescriptions dispensed electronically in Australia.
I am not here to tell you to leave all of your information on (file shares in) file servers, however we have learned after working with many customers needing Records and Information Management solutions that sometimes it’s just better to leave your files in place. At least for a while. Placing record retention policies on files (on your file servers) is very feasible if you stay within reasonable bounds.
Sherpa Software, a provider of information governance and eDiscovery solutions, has announced an update to Altitude IG that introduces several new features for the eDiscovery, Reporting & Analytics and Administration modules.
nQueue, the provider of cost recovery and document scanning and routing technology, has announced the release of iA Enterprise Platform version 3.0, iA Route version 3.3 and iA Workflow 2.0. All three are major upgrades and deliver substantially improved functionality over previous versions.
Organizations rarely lack information in this new world of work. Unfortunately, information is gridlocked and unavailable to drive business decisions on the fly, according to new research from Ricoh and IDC.
Lexmark has announced the availability of Kofax View, claimed to be the first document viewing, editing and PDF creation application for Outlook and available for free in the Office Store.
Users who are familiar with a traditional DM system expect to be able to overwrite existing versions of a document. This is because not all changes are so important that they need to be published as a new version of the document. When those users first move to using SharePoint they are pleased to hear that SharePoint supports versioning – not only the Major versions that they are used to but also Minor or Draft versions as well. The only problem is that they cannot overwrite an existing Major version – only an existing Minor version can be overwritten.
There are many reasons organisations are implementing Document Management Software (DMS) to replace traditional paper filing systems, from superior organization and security to increased productivity and profitability. However while many anticipate the paperless office presents a win-win equation for both businesses and their customers, uptake is stalled in many industries as different inherent barriers prevent what seems to be a natural migration.
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