Industry Insider

The Australian government’s COVIDSafe app has been up and running for almost a fortnight, with more than five million downloads. Unfortunately, since its release many users – particularly those with iPhones – have been in the dark about how well the app works.

We are experiencing the biggest remote work experiment in history – but many are beginning to imagine life after lockdown. Amid unprecedented global job losses, concerns about transport infrastructure and the continuing need for workplace social distancing, governments are launching back-to-work plans. Meanwhile, the latest US research reveals that 74% of businesses want some workers to permanently work remotely and business leaders are actively shedding.

A lengthy ongoing program of digital transformation at Sydney’s Georges River Council delivered dividends when the COVID-19 crisis hit in March 2020.

A major project to digitise a massive archive of HR records for a large Victorian government customer has exploited the AI and next-generation OPEX scanning capabilities at imaging bureau Advance Record Management, headquartered in Geelong.

Retail banks in Poland have begun providing customers with notifications of commissions and fees changes on blockchain via a new document management product offered by the Polish Credit Bureau (BIK, or Biuro Informacji Kredytowej in Polish).

Digital Mailrooms have been around for over 30 years, since the earliest days of industrial document scanners, so they are nothing new. Despite a shift away from paper correspondence, Digital Mailrooms remain an essential part of the Digital Transformation toolkit.  However,to maximise the benefits of a Digital Mailroom the mindset needs to be more than just purchasing high end scanners, putting them in the basement with the old mailroom, and taking a photo of every piece of paper as it enters the organisation.

Since its release on Sunday, experts and members of the public alike have raised privacy concerns with the federal government’s COVIDSafe mobile app. The contact tracing app aims to stop COVID-19’s spread by “tracing” interactions between users via Bluetooth, and alerting those who may have been in proximity with a confirmed case.

A remarkable breakdown in document security saw a PDF copy of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s autobiography widely distributed on the weekend ahead of its official release on Monday, April 20. A staff member at the office of Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been found to have distributed the pirate copy of A Bigger Picture.

Compu-Stor has deployed a Kodak Alaris Info Input Solution for web-based, distributed capture, the first deployment of the solution in Australia following its launch in 2019.

With version 10 of Content Manager due out in the second half of 2020, Micro Focus has announced a new subscription pricing model for the ECM platform popular at all levels of Government in Australia.