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ASX-listed services provider, Empired, has announced an ambitious Australian roadmap for its Cohesion cloud-based ECM platform, originally developed for the New Zealand government market.

Eighty-one percent of today’s employees worldwide need access to corporate documents and information on their mobile device, yet 43 percent of the workforce don't have the required access, according to research undertaken by M-Files Corporation.

New Zealand and Dubai have announced a new three-month pilot programme for electronic export certification, a new initiative set to further enhance trade of animal products between the two nations.

In the GPS era, it’s been estimated that only 1 in 3 Young People Can Read a Road Map. Make that a topographical map and you can be certain the percentage would be much much lower. No such problem for competitors in the annual Australian Geography Competition, where the map reading skills and geographical knowledge of Australia’s best and brightest High School students are tested in a challenging multiple-choice test.

Announcing its financial results for the six months ended 31 December 2018, the Citadel Group has highlighted growth in delivery of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, including the Citadel Information Exchange (IX) cloud ECM platform.

​Digital transformation is a top priority at many enterprises as they attempt to convert more workflows to fully electronic processes. In the case of document handling and processing, many companies have implemented digital imaging solutions to convert their paper documents (mail, forms, archives, etc.) into digital documents. But that’s just one step on the path toward digital transformation.

When asked about the biggest barriers to digital transformation in 2019, nearly one-third of organizations surveyed (30 percent) cited insufficient budget and 22 percent cited the inability to experiment quickly. 'Legacy systems' still present the single biggest barrier at 41 percent of those surveyed. Lack of change management capabilities and relevant skills are also seen as major hurdles in 2019.

Augmented analytics , continuous intelligence and explainable artificial intelligence (AI) are among the top trends in data and analytics technology that have significant disruptive potential over the next three to five years, according to Gartner, Inc.

Information Services Group, a global technology research and advisory firm with an office in Sydney, has found the majority of companies are at the beginning stages of deploying RPA, with only 7 percent at ISG's highest level of maturity – Bot 3.0 – having expanded automation to multiple functions across the enterprise.

It’s true to say that RPA has taken us a long way towards unlocking productivity benefits tied up in manual processes. It has galvanized a mindset that things can change without a need for massive systems reengineering.