Document & Records Management

Peoplebank, Australia's largest IT and specialist recruiter, has signed a contract to use Secured Signing's digital signing process to give it an edge in getting its contractors signed up and onto client projects.  Peoplebank has begun rolling out the service and early adopters are finding savings of around an hour-and-a-half with each new contractor placement.

Founder and CEO of Australia's Objective Corporation, Tony Walls is driven to excel at whatever he does. Be that building a successful global enterprise software company, or hurtling around a racetrack on weekends competing against professional drivers in Carrera Cup, a fully-fledged national motor racing championship that routinely acts as the premier support category for the V8 Supercars Championship.

The problem of “donkey classification” in electronic document and record management systems (EDRMS) is common, where users select the first presented disposal class for a document, irrespective of its content, or always use the same class.

OBS has launched a new “Docs in a Box” SharePoint solution that promises to deliver 70 per cent of the functionality that all organisations need to manage their controlled documents. The company says the remaining 30 per cent of controlled document functionality consists of attributes specific to each business such as user experience, templates and organisation processes. For example security, review, approval and publication workflow. 

The Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is concerned that organisations are not prepared for a world where business information, once totally paper-based, is now distributed in millions of digital records and e-mails that make up an organisation's data. It has published a new report to help assess the risks.

UNSW Australia will house the papers of former Prime Minister John Howard, who has announced the transfer of his collection to the University through a unique partnership with the National Archives of Australia.

Esker has launched a new on-demand E-Purchasing solution to automate the entire purchase-to-pay cycle — from purchase requisition to vendor invoice payment authorisation.

NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, has been selected to overhaul the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican Apostolic Library. The overall project, which was started by the Vatican Apostolic Library some years ago and is currently ongoing with an initial output of 6,000 manuscripts, is intended to digitally archive all manuscripts preserved in the Library, amounting to some 82,000 specimens and 41 million pages.

Archives New Zealand has issued a document setting out the basis of its Appraisal Framework. It sets out the future direction for identifying records that should be retained as public archives and records that should be destroyed once business and other requirements have been met.

Canon has launched a cloud version of its Therefore document management platform, hosted by Fujitsu Australia.

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