Business Process & Workflow

Objective Corporation has announced that Microsoft Azure will be adopted as the cloud platform for Objective’s content, collaboration and process management solutions, globally.

Brisbane Airport has begun trial of a Digital Departure Card for international passengers, removing the age old necessity of hand writing the official ‘outgoing passenger card’ (Departure Card) required for immigration purposes.

A $US1B buyout of leading enterprise capture vendor Kofax by Lexmark adds more weight to the capture and workflow software holdings of its Perceptive subsidiary, following earlier acquisitions ReadSoft and Brainware. It also potentially brings into play the huge channel network of over 850 partners that Kofax has established worldwide in raising the profile of Perceptive’s full suite of information management software.

Acrobat DC, a new product from Adobe, has been launched at the heart of the company’s new Adobe Document Cloud. It delivers free e-signing as part of the integrated solution, via eSign Services (formerly Adobe EchoSign), to allow users to electronically send and sign any document from any device for no additional cost.

ABBYY has announced three software development kits (SDKs) designed for applications that retrieve business-relevant knowledge from unstructured information and turn big data into manageable corporate asset. All products are based on the company’s technology for natural language processing, which is claimed to understand the meaning of processed text with almost human precision.

Customer communications management (CCM) is poised for a major transition. Today, the task of producing customer mailings is still largely an unsung, batch-processing job, dominated by print, but changing customer expectations, the emergence of new technologies and the need to reduce costs are set to turn CCM into a powerhouse of real-time, multi-channel and personalized communication.

Kofax has announced the $US19.5M acquisition of Aia Holding BV, a Dutch provider of customer communications management (CCM) software that helps organisations manage interactive and ad hoc customer correspondence both electronically and on paper.

Nuance Communications Australia has announced that its scanning, print management, cost recovery and speech recognition technology solutions for the legal industry have topped their respective categories in the 2014 International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Technology Survey.

A2iA has unveiled  its newest software toolkit, A2iA TextReader, which features a new inhouse developed technology for full text transcription. Developed by A2iA’s in-house R&D Team, the same  engine can be used for printed and cursive text recognition, enabling all types of documents be transformed into searchable and editable formats – without the use of a dictionary.

Fuji Xerox Australia has signed an agreement with Kofax to act as a Platinum partner and reseller of Kofax’s smart data capture applications in Australasia.

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