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Rpa Demystified RPA in Action for Healthcare A Challenging Council Merger DECEMBER-JANUARY 2018 RPA DEMYSTIFIED OPEN EMAIL COPY PASTE REPEAT Print Post Approved: 100002740 Ensuring the Failure of Your Knowledge Management Efforts A records manager’s job is never done..with EzeScan! Ready To Help: 1300 EZESCAN (1300 393 722 ) www.ezescan.com.au Finance looks to a new path to digital According the new Finance Discussion Paper, “In early 2018, Finance undertook a 12-week Demonstration of Concept (the record-keeping nirvana Demonstration) to test the concept of automating records capture and categorisation via machine learning and semantic data technologies. Through the Demonstration, it was concluded that while the Government is best placed to describe its functions, industry is working towards automation and would be best placed to provide digital records management systems that would be compatible with the government developed Australian Government Records Interoperability Framework (AGRIF). One industry vendor responded, “I think this means they have decided it is all too hard and could one or more of you vendors do it for us at your cost but to our theoretical and incomplete design? “I guess it will be one of those government projects that goes on More than three years into its multi-million dollar quest to for years and years costing a fortune and then is finally cancelled revolutionise digital record-keeping practices across Federal because technology has passed it by.” government, Australia’s Department of Finance has announced There is also industry concern that the co-design approach another shift in direction and a “review” of the current (and this whole project overall) puts a disproportionately heavy moratorium on new investment in records management burden on SMEs. solutions. “It’s a much heavier burden for SMEs to jump through these Finance is still keen to migrate to as-yet-undefined next- ever-changing hoops than it is for the majors. This approach will generation technology platform to automate the practice of produce a heavy bias toward larger players and multinationals keeping records, an initiative initially announced in 2015, but and will further hurt local records management technology is now asking for vendors to submit to a “co-design process” to providers/vendors/suppliers,” noted one Solution Provider. achieve its aims. At an industry briefing in July 2018, Kayelle Drinkwater, Finance Assistant Secretary, Accountability and “This is especially so when SMEs are already suffering as this Reporting, announced that a Request for Proposal (RFP) would project continues to shift its plans and approach, and the (in) be made available in October 2018 leading to a panel of famous moratorium continues (in theory) even though Finance qualified vendors to be established in 2019. seems shy about it” Ms Drinkwater has since left the Department and the RFP has Another commented, “This document is not a lot to show for 2.5 now transformed into a Request for Feedback (RFF?). years of spending, and deliberate lockout of any competition from the scene. They’re still trying to solve a According to a new Discussion Paper: “Before we begin to problem they created. establish requirements and a sourcing approach, Finance is seeking feedback on: “It’s not like they needed to urgently prevent any more agencies spending millions on new EDRMS implementations – there are 1. the use of a co-design approach with industry and entities to only a few large agencies that don’t already have them. The determine the most appropriate sourcing arrangements and a latest paper still doesn’t really explain what the problem was, statement of requirements; and and how they are trying to solve it – and especially doesn’t 2. whether the capability maturity approach is a useful” explain how this 3+ year moratorium is actually helping anyone.” Finance has also asked that all proposed digital record-keeping solutions are compatible with the Australian Government Kofax to buy Nuance's imaging Records Interoperability Framework (AGRIF), a new standard division for $US400M in cash that it is developing but is yet to be completed. Kofax has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nuance Document Imaging (NDI), a division of Nuance Publisher/Editor Communications. Bill Dawes Nuance eCopy ShareScan software is bundled with many mul- ti-function printers (MFPs), while OmniPage Server is a high-vol- ume OCR, PDF converter and bulk image converter. Published by: Nuance’s imaging division accounted for about 11 percent of its Transmit Media Pty Ltd revenues last year, and the company has elected to focus on its ABN 631 354 31659 voice recognition and AI-based solutions. PO Box 392, Paddington NSW According to Nuance, the sale will enable it to focus the 2021, Australia business entirely on its conversational AI- and cloud- based Telephone: +61 (2) 9043 2943 solutions while simplifying the organization and improving its Fax: +61 (2) 8212 8985 growth profile. email: [email protected] “Through the acquisition of Nuance’s document imaging divi- sion, Kofax will drive customer value by adding key All material in Image & Data Manager is protected under the Commonwealth technologies, including cloud compatibility, scan-to-archive, Copyright Act 1968. No material may be reproduced in part or whole in any scan-to-workflow, print management and document security, to manner whatsoever without the prior written consent of the Publisher and/ or copyright holder. Editorial contributions are welcome. All resonable efforts our end-to-end Intelligent Automation platform,” said Reynolds have been made to trace copyright holders. C. Bish, Chief Executive Officer of Kofax. The Publisher/Editor bears no responsibility for lost or damaged material. The “In addition we will now be able to combine the best capture views expressed in Image & Data Manager are not those of the Editor. While every care has been taken in the compilation of editorial, no responsibility and print management capabilities available in the market into will be accepted by the Editor for omissions or mistakes within. The Publisher one product portfolio.” bears no responsibility for claims made, or for information provided by the advertiser. The transaction is expected to close by the end of Q1, 2019. Image & Data Manager | 1 How Office 365 Machine Learning Will Change Records Management By Bruce Herzer A Records Manager’s secret weapon Are you feeling like there’s an unstoppable, accelerating growth in the volume of data being created within your What’s really cool is the way in which Microsoft is leveraging organization? The folks at Microsoft agree with you. In fact, machine learning to deliver both insight and better security they’ve been describing a state of “data explosion,” across those pillars. occurring in business today. “We’re asking: what is the business, legal and regulatory value of Given that ComputerWorld estimates that there are currently the data? Not all of it is created equal,” DeSilva says. “It’s all about 120 million Office 365 commercial monthly active users, looking providing built-in capabilities in the platform.” at this data explosion in the context of Office 365 information Microsoft has found in their market research that most people management is a key consideration for many businesses. don’t declare records, so they’re trying to make records John Mancini, on a recent AIIM webinar, shared some member declaration easier through auto-classification. At Ignite, survey data highlighting the extent to which people are feeling Microsoft showed off capabilities that can identify and analyze the effects of data volume growth. 98% of respondents felt that data beyond rudimentary keywords—actually determining what the volume of data and information coming into their is in the data for more insight and aid in decision making. organization will at least double in the next 2 years, and 35% There is a new tab in the Office Security and Compliance Center said it will grow by a factor of 5 or more. called the “Classification Assistant” that helps surface these And while there was an acknowledgement that information insights. For instance, users often don’t know what’s important management strategies needed to be modernized to meet to classify, and administrators often lack visibility into control of modern problems (64% completely agreeing with this the data. So to fill this gap, the Classification Assistant gives statement), John suggested that organizations are “running administrators detail and visualizations of how much of your faster and faster” to keep the same level of control over their data is classified and how much isn’t. electronic information, because they are having to deal with the They have also built an inventory of “out of the box” classifiers for explosion in volume at the same time as putting the means in content like: contract, attorney-client privileged letter, resumes, place to help manage it better. and job descriptions. You can point these at a SharePoint library, He also used the visceral acronym ROT to flag the uncontrolled and the system will recommend what content fits that information that RIM practitioners and compliance offers are classification—recommendations that an administrator can desperate to avoid: data which is redundant, obsolete and trivial. accept or decline. You can also train the engine by feeding it A full third of respondents suggested the majority of their data samples into it to build and refine the classifiers. is ROT. For categories where you have no samples available, the system can identify groups of content that look similar, in order to help How Office 365 can help you identify the right classification. Fortunately, Microsoft has recognized this trend and has been It can work for structured and unstructured content, and these investing heavily in new data governance tools that should help classifiers can be integrated easily into your ROT analysis or label organizations get ahead of the shock wave.
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