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ECM vendor Hyland Software has upped its offer for enterprise capture software leader ReadSoft increase, meanwhile announcing an expanded Australian presence and the purchase of local solution provider CAYLX Software for an undisclosed sum.

Australia has jumped into second place in the UN’s global e-government rankings, with South Korea retaining top spot in the 2014 Survey, and New Zealand breaking into the Top 10 at 9th place.

Most organisations understand that there is significant benefit in organising and streamlining their information. Unfortunately achieving this is fraught with many challenges, including the question of what information to keep, and for how long. Whilst it is clear hoarding information can create significant and diverse risks for organisations, retaining no information at all is also clearly not an option. Somewhere in the middle is information best practice, but how do we get there?

Organizers of the upcoming SharePoint Conferences Sydney (15-16 July) and Auckland (22 & 23 July) have announced the findings of their APAC survey of SharePoint corporate and government users.

A job ad recently posted online calls for “an understanding of Document Control as it pertains to the Oil and Gas industry particularly in the field of Engineering and Construction.” What are the unique requirements of such a role? To find out, IDM consulted a selection of senior Document Control Professionals working across the country and internationally.

ZL Technologies, a provider of unstructured data management tools, has announced its ZL Unified Archive (ZL UA) 8.0 solution has achieved SAP-certified integration with the SAP ERP application running on the SAP HANA platform. This allows centralised archiving of unstructured and structured data content together in the ZL UA environment. 

The risk of employees locating and accessing files they should not have permission to view is limiting the uptake of enterprise search, according to a new survey by Varonis Systems.

A $A22 million funding boost for the NSW State Records Authority announced as part of the 2014-15 Budget means that it will soon be easier for regional areas to access and view State records and archives online.

The Proficiency Group has been named Kofax’s Asia Pacific Partner of the year at Transform 2014, Kofax's annual customer and partner conference, which drew a record 750 attendees from 32 countries.

The global eDiscovery Market was worth USD 3.6 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach USD 9.9 billion in 2017, growing at a CAGR of 15.4% from 2010 to 2017, according to analyst firm Transparency Market Research.