I read an article recently about how the paperless push in the Victorian Government was apparently failing. My immediate thought was “not surprised” given the way most organisations (including government agencies) approach the transition to a paperless office.
Australia’s Federal Government has released a Discussion Paper as well as its Exposure Draft of Legislation to make it mandatory for certain organizations to report data breaches. If passed, the bill would require large private sector organisations and Federal government agencies to notify the Federal Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals of serious data breaches.
More than half of organisations surveyed by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) for a recent report on data governance have had data-related incidents in the past 12 months, including 16% suffering a data breach.
In their efforts to identify and protect information assets, companies are not identifying many information "content" risks that fall between gaps of data stewardship and regulatory compliance.
New Zealand information and knowledge management solution provider Information Leadership was awarded ICT Vendor of the Year at the recent Annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Awards. The company was nominated by the Upper Hutt City Council which has recently implemented an electronic document and records management system and intranet SharePoint solution.
Thinking about OCR technology to help you extract data from paper or pdf documents? There are a number of things to keep in mind when you begin your evaluation of this technology. This discussion is more related to advanced data capture requirements and to give you some high level information and thought direction.
The internal discussion happens every year, doesn’t it? “We don’t have the budget … We don’t have the resources at this time … We have another project that is taking priority … Let’s consider AP Imaging and Workflow Automation next year …” Automating your AP department may feel like a daunting undertaking, but can you really afford NOT to do it?
With the New Year nearly upon us, it’s no surprise that companies have begun releasing predictions for the technology industry in 2016. Independent technology analyst firm Ovum has joined in with its prediction that says the enterprise content management (ECM) space has entered a new period of rapid evolution. In its 2016 Trends to Watch report on Enterprise Content Management, Ovum outlines the major factors it expects will shape the ECM market in the coming year. These factors include content analytics, the security of content and increased concern over compliance and governance risks.
Before anything else, make sure you instil the following message into your company's culture and never, ever forget it: The purpose of documentation is to transfer the right information to the right people at the right time. Anything that interferes with this objective is at best a waste of time, at worst downright dangerous.
Working across a number of industries over the last few years it always surprised me that Big Data projects either struggle with meeting records management requirements or ignore them altogether. My surprise comes from the fact that not only is Records Management a compliance practice, but it is one that can literally pay for itself.
