Document & Records Management
The legal industry has come a long way in the shift to a paperless world, with many processes during the litigation lifecycle including the filing of documents, electronic discovery and document review being managed electronically. In Federal law matters for example, an electronic filing facility called “eLodgment” can be used for the lodgment of applications and supporting documents. In Victoria, the Supreme Court has developed an electronic filing and case management system known as “RedCrest”.
The document solutions that we are talking about are ones that streamline or automate the generation of emails in Outlook and documents in Microsoft Office (specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and also solutions that manage such electronic documents and emails. All too often these new document solutions, especially ones that utilise Microsoft SharePoint, fail to be adopted by their intended users.
Parascript has announced new auto-classification capabilities with the launch of its next generation software. Parascript Document Classification 2.0.
The deal to acquire Kofax by Lexmark International has been sealed with the final price exceeding $US1 billion, and Kofax Reynolds Bish stepping into the chair as president of Lexmark’s Enterprise Software division.
Every one of Australia’s 200 Commonwealth Government agencies will have a dedicated information specialist on staff by the year 2020, according to a timetable laid out by David Fricker, Director-General of the National Archives.
Axiopea Consulting, a European Dynamics AX development company, has launched of Document Management Studio for Dynamics AX.
Infor has announced enhancements for Infor Document Management, in partnership with Ephesoft, to help customers work more efficiently by automatically connecting documents to core business processes within Infor enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.
Actor Johnny Depp could have avoided the threat of his Yorkshire Terriers Boo and Pistol being put down by Australian Customs officials if he had completed a simple application form online at the Department of Agriculture Web site. The large Australian Commonwealth agency is underway with a huge end-to end digital drive to assist in the fight to maintain Australia’s biosecurity, although it appears the Hollywood star considered his ability to fly the dogs in on his private jet entitled him to sidestep official requirements.
How does a global organisation with more than 9000 employees deal with document management, especially as it’s not regarded as a particularly cool topic. When staff at Head Office alone are generating more than a million documents a year, the challenge is formidable, and the idea of a solution becomes more attractive. For growing mining company MMG the response was to integrate OpenText Content Server and SharePoint with the aim of achieving an integrated search, collaboration and information lifecycle management solution.
In-house or outsourced, cloud or on-premise? Tourism WA, the State Government agency responsible for promoting Western Australia (WA) as a holiday and business event destination, went through the typical scenarios when questioning how to future-proof its information and records management systems. It has now completed an upgrade to HP’s latest version Records Manager 8 with the assistance of Information Proficiency, which has been providing a Records Management team since 2011.
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