Enterprise Applications

When the PDF will be a thing of the past

Anyone working in today’s business world is familiar with the Portable Document Format (PDF), and for good reason. PDFs offer a great convenience. They can be taken on the road, read on any device, emailed to other people and easily printed.

Defence needs $A5B IT fix

A White Paper produced by Australia’s Department of Defence has identified a need for $A5 billion in additional funding over previous plans to meet Defence’s information and communications technology needs across the next decade.

Road data harmonisation project

Austroads is undertaking an ambitious project to establish a harmonised road asset data standard for use in Australia and New Zealand.

Healthcare solution promises 360 degree view

Information Builders has updated its Omni-Patient offering, an information management solution that integrates and cleanses disparate sets of healthcare data, including multiple electronic medical records (EMRs) as well as financial and HR systems.

Civica launches SharePoint for councils

Local Government software developer Civica has launched a new SharePoint platform to provide online portals, enterprise workflow, and integration and CRM capabilities. Contact360 is decribed as a customer contact and transactional platform for councils in Australia and New Zealand.

ABBYY linguistics tools for next generation apps

ABBYY has announced two new language-based products enabling businesses to understand and act on complex, unstructured information. Based on the company’s Compreno natural-language processing (NLP) technology, ABBYY InfoExtractor SDK and ABBYY Smart Classifier enable development of next generation smart business process applications, accelerating business decisions and insights for industries, including oil and gas, insurance, healthcare, financial services and government, among others.

Records Management & Big Data

Working across a number of industries over the last few years it always surprised me that Big Data projects either struggle with meeting records management requirements or ignore them altogether.  My surprise comes from the fact that not only is Records Management a compliance practice, but it is one that can literally pay for itself.

Updates to LEADTOOLS Document and Medical SDKs

LEAD Technologies has released a major update to the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Product lines. This update includes across-the-board enhancements to Optical Character Recognition including speed, accuracy and memory usage.

The Rise of the Algos

As the world moves towards the big data era, society will undergo a major shift. Big data is already transforming many aspects of our life and forcing us to reconsider basic principles, as we evaluate how to best utilise big data while preventing potential harm. Simple changes to existing rules will not be sufficient to temper big data’s dark side.

Agility essential for data-driven future

Each year ABBYY holds numerous International Technology Summits, where we share our latest product innovations and future technology roadmaps with our partners and developers.

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