Industry Insider

This week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft SharePoint Syntex as of October 1, 2020. This is the first packaged product to come out of the code-name Project Cortex initiative first announced in November 2019. Project Cortex reflects Microsoft’s ongoing investment in intelligent content services and graph APIs to proactively explore and categorise digital assets from Microsoft 365 and other connected sources.

One year after TimelinePI merged with ABBYY, ABBYY reports growing momentum for its Process Intelligence solution. The global Process Discovery and Mining (PDM) market is estimated by analyst firm NelsonHall at $US566.5 million and is predicted to grow up to $US5.4 billion by 2024.

Bathurst Regional Council (BRC) in 2018 was a Local Government Authority (LGA) facing a pressing need for technology modernisation.

A recent IDC study commissioned by Lexmark finds that dated print infrastructure is an obstacle to digital transformation. Despite three in five enterprises recognizing that lingering print infrastructures are a significant barrier to success, fewer than half are prioritizing investment in this space, hampering the progress of strategic IT initiatives.

IDC has announced this year’s finalists in the Digital Transformation (DX) Awards for Australia and New Zealand. The Awards recognise the achievements of organisations that have successfully digitised one or multiple areas of their business through the application of digital and disruptive technologies.

A robust cloud segment drove Microsoft’s results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2020 (FY20 Q4). According to the research data analysed and published by StockApps.com, during the period which ended on June 30, 2020, Microsoft had an increase of 30% in commercial cloud revenue.

Cloud ECM and healthcare software specialist Citadel Group has agreed to a $A500 million takeover by by Pacific Equity Partners (PEP), a private equity firm with over $A5 billion assets under management.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released a privacy resource to assist Australian Government agencies to determine when they need to conduct a privacy impact assessment.

Hay, a new Australian headquartered fintech company offering fully digital banking, has chosen the Appian Low-code Automation Platform to digitise and automate all back-office processes.

A $A3 million tender win for Australia’s DatacomIT in August is the first step in a five-year program by the Department of Defence to backscan and digitise a massive paper archive of Army Personnel records held at Victoria Barracks Melbourne.