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Ron Finemore Transport was honoured in the annual Kofax Customer Excellence Awards at Accelerate 2021, Kofax’s virtual customer event. Headquartered in Wodonga, Victoria, Ron Finemore Transport operates an extensive logistics network across the Australia’s eastern seaboard.

For many small businesses, we often look at Microsoft 365 as a suite of tools that do our dirty work when it comes to versioning, retention policies, and more. Every great feature that SharePoint offers is only enhanced through maintenance, and effective document management is no different. For everything that SharePoint does well, we must also meet our platform halfway by having consistent practices to enhance document management and other key governance areas.

UniSA researchers have designed a digital tool to help the police, defence industry – and now child protection services – translate complex data into a visual story, saving hundreds of hours of time. The narrative visualisation tool, developed by Dr Andrew Cunningham, Dr James Walsh, and Prof Bruce Thomas,  has already allowed the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to create snapshots of crime by distilling mountains of case notes and briefs into image-based stories.

By 2024, 80% of technology products and services will be built by those who are not technology professionals, according to Gartner, Inc.

Four out of five C-level executives (82%) are confident their business is well-prepared digitally, but only 58% of managers agree, according to new global research from Digital Intelligence company ABBYY. This comes as managers say they have been burdened with disruptions to digital transformation (DX) 2.5x more than C-level executives, despite having new technologies on hand.

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is an integrated suite of business management software that brings all a company’s key operational information together in one centralised database.  

Despite increasing reliance on online platforms like Slack, Teams, Facebook, Zoom, and WhatsApp for both internal and external communications, many companies are slow to implement formal practices for the retention and preservation of online data. In fact, 71.6% rated their organization as “immature” or “intermediate,” according to a new report from the US Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Pagefreezer.

A report into the use of statutory powers by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has given these a pass mark but uncovered serious deficiencies in the AFP’s record-keeping practices and processes. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) found that “The AFP’s poor digital record-keeping is a risk to the integrity of its operations.”

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has released the findings of independent reports on an illegal data breach on Christmas Day 2020 and its handling of sensitive information.

In the Federal Budget 2021, the Government committed $1.2 billion to its Digital Economy Strategy. Its goal is to improve Australia’s competitiveness, boost productivity, create jobs, lift wages, and to become a leading digital economy by 2030.