Business Process & Workflow

More than 83% of Australian businesses surveyed for a new study by IDC and Canon confessed to still using still using paper based document processes in 2016, although around the same number claim to have begun their digital transformation journey.

Toshiba (Australia) has announced a win with document management partner ELO to implement  document management solutions for Victoria’s Community Housing Ltd (CHL). CHL originated in Australia in 1993 and is a national and international housing provider delivering affordable housing in four regions of the world.

Text recognition developer A2iA is expanding its list of supported languages and character-types, to allow English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Spanish documents to be automatically transcribed without a dictionary, regardless of whether written in machine print or cursive handwriting, and transformed into searchable and editable electronic data.

A solution employing Objectif Lune PlanetPress Capture and 1,500 Anoto digital pens is allowing South African multi-brand furniture retailer Lewis Group to eliminate paperwork generated by credit applications

If you’re an Australian business considering an electronic signature solution, I have good news. Axient partner eSignLive has just announced it will store local signature data in two Australian data centres.

Colin Biggers & Paisley, an Australian law firm with a focus on property development, has slashed thousands of paralegal hours and drastically reduced paper consumption by digitising its contracts with DocuSign.

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology from ABBYY is helping Melbourne-based financial software developer FinSuite to ease the burden on financial institutions in extracting and standardising data for business loan risk evaluation and processing.

Records and Information Management (RIM), in many industries, is a fading requirement. Don't get me wrong; archivists in city clerk offices, holders of historical artefacts and documents, much of the medical industry - particularly in different parts of the world, and other areas of information management will still thrive with RIM professionals, librarians, and archivists. However, in the engineering sector - RIM just does not cut it anymore.

Paper. That’s the one thing all businesses have in common in some shape or form. The difference is that some businesses are drowning in it while others have taken the steps to manage and maintain it.

A new field force automation solution called Capture OnTheGo provides organisations inundated with transactional forms an automated and portable solution for their employees to access and update crucial documents while in the field.

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