SEMA follows Salmat and Computershare into digital post

The three-year agreement with Bill Exchange will see SEMA combine its data management skills with the provider’s electronic delivery system, said SEMA managing director John Stewart.

SEMA will process the traditional data, leaving clients with the simpler task of taking the information in electronic form and putting it straight into their systems, he said.

“Our skill is taking the data from anywhere and putting it into a form where we can get it to our clients,” he told ProPrint.

[Exclusive: John Stewart profile]

Stewart said the SEMA and Bill Exchange had been working together since October 2011 to service Waverley Council in Sydney, but would now chase other clients.

As a business-to-business service, it is different from two rival digital post offerings already announced: Digital Post Australia, a joint venture of Computershare Communication Services and Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions, based on the Zumbox platform; and Digital MailBox, run by Australia Post and based on Pitney Bowes’ Volly system.

SEMA’s B2B digital postbox service will initially target councils, but will eventually be marketed to water authorities, utilities providers and telecommunications companies too, said Stewart.

Stewart told ProPrint that SEMA was also in talks to find a business-to-consumer digital postbox partner.

[Related: Ups and downs of SEMA]

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