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StreamSets, a company that delivers performance management for data flows, today announced results from a global survey of more than 300 data management professionals conducted by independent research firm Dimensional Research.The study found that enterprises of all sizes face challenges on a range of key data performance management issues from stopping bad data to keeping data flows operating effectively.

Spending by Australian organisations on business process management (BPM) software is forecast to reach A$82.9 million in 2016, an increase of 2.5 percent over last year. In New Zealand, organisations are expected to spend NZ$6.9 million on BPM software in 2016, up 5.5 percent over last year.

If you’re a regular SharePoint user, you’ve probably wondered if your workplace could do more to organise and manage documents in the right way. Is there a more efficient way to locate content? Are your filing conventions intuitive?

A friend (who is the CEO of a Fortune 100 company) jokingly commented that “it is impossible to measure the performance of information management professionals without having a deep sense of compassion and sympathy”.

A majority of companies don't have the technology in place to keep employees from sharing confidential documents, according to a new survey titled, Risky Business: How Company Insiders Put High Value Information at Risk.

Your data is for sale. It’s something we’ve all known for a while now but $US26.2 billion later the conversation has been reignited, if not a bit buried, in the story of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn.

Microsoft’s $US26B purchase of LinkedIn provides access to a “Treasure Trove of Information” according to Gartner analyst Doug Laney.

Today’s technologically hungry society is known to adopt new tech more quickly than ever before. Despite this, many large organisations have been relatively reluctant to adopt policies allowing for contracts to be signed electronically.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is calling for a moratorium on changes that will penalise general practices thousands of dollars if they do not upload patient health summaries to the My Health Record system, with less than a quarter of practices indicating they will be able to comply with new rules introduced earlier this year to the Practice Incentives Program (PIP).

According to a new market research report, the global text analytics market has a potential to reach $US6.5 billion by 2020, with predictive analytics providing insights on unstructured text as the major driver.