Document & Records Management

Ike Kavas is the founder and CEO of Ephesoft, with 20 years of document capture, document management, workflow and systems engineer experience. His previous role was Chief Technology Officer at Ephesoft and he holds a patent on supervised machine learning for document classification and extraction. On a visit to Australia in May for a series of customer events, IDM asked Ike to expand on expand the company’s mission of turning the world’s unstructured content into actionable data.

Every election is critical, but a complicated set of requirements will add up to a unique challenge for the 2019 Local Government Elections in New Zealand. A new customised scanning and processing system supplied and configured by ABBYY will help to automate and simplify the task for electionz.com, the organisation that will be handling the bulk of processing.

ABBYY has announced the launch of ABBYY Text Analytics for Contracts, a managed service that automatically discovers insights from contracts and leases to speed up risk mitigation, obligation analysis and content migration.

Organizations have limited resources to invest in safeguarding their data. Knowing exactly what data needs protection will help you set priorities and develop a sound plan so you can allocate your budget and other resources wisely, minimizing security and compliance costs. But where’s the best place to start? Data classification provides a solid foundation for a data security strategy because it helps identify risky areas in the IT network, both on premises and in the cloud.

Netwrix Corporation, provider of a visibility platform for data security and risk mitigation in hybrid environments, has announced the release of Netwrix Auditor – Data Discovery and Classification Edition.

To mark the latest release of Upland's FileBound workflow automation solution, Jon Eilers, General Manager FileBound US presented at a series of Roadshows across Australia. IDM asked John to highlight some of the recent and upcoming enhancements in the platform roadmap.

More than 6 million historical client documents held by the Western Australia Department of Communities Housing (Housing Authority) presented a major headache for staff owing to a lack of containment and classification. A new Ephesoft smart document capture system deployed by the Process Automation Group (PAG) is now assisting with making documents findable and enabling retention polices to be applied.

ASX-listed Citadel Group’s enterprise information management solution, Citadel-IX, is now running on Microsoft’s new Azure AU Central cloud, which has recently achieved the Australian Signals Directorate’s ‘protected’ level certification.

Is your organisation curious about the impact of Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme? Australian image scanning bureau CaptureIT has launched a new specialised offering designed to put those concerns to rest by offering a comprehensive framework for managing and reporting on the entire data and content lifecycle of relevant personal and enterprise information.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has published the first quarterly report on data breach notifications received under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme, which came into force on 22 February 2018.  

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