Industry Insider

Last Christmas and New Year the ideal present, for a girl of a certain age, from Japan to the UK was the neurowear clip-on of floppy ears driven by brain waves to reflect your mood. They would have been played with for one day and then put away forever. Such novelty peaks can be expected with many forms of wearable technology as it enters its manic phase with hugely overpriced acquisitions. Facebook is buying tiny Oculus VR, a Californian company which specialises in virtual reality headware, for around $2 billion. Is it worth that much? 

AP Smart has been chosen to streamline the purchase requisition, procurement and Accounts Payable processes at Fugro TSM and Fugro Survey, global subsea contractors servicing the oil and gas and marine industries with offices in Perth and Brisbane.

The New South Wales Department of Education and Communities, the largest single organization, public or private, in Australia, has chosen ReadSoft’s SAP -certified invoice automation solution to streamline its existing invoice processing operations and enable greater efficiencies across its Shared Services Centre.

The national Commission of Audit (CoA) has recommended the Australian Public Service consolidate its vast range of bespoke and off the shelf corporate ICT in order to facilitate a move to shared services. The incoming Liberal Government established the Commission of Audit in October 2013 to review and report on the performance, functions and roles of the Commonwealth government.

Online storage and collaboration service Dropbox has officially launched its Dropbox for Business service, provising users with two different online storage compartments: one for personal use, and one for professional.

A new study by information management analysts AIIM, concludes that business leaders see collaboration as ‘crucial,’ but are confused by the rapid convergence of tools.

Office365 is being deployed to almost 150,000 government employees in Queensland, in a deal that that is expected to shave $A13.7 million off Microsoft licensing costs over three years.

For information management (IM) professionals, entity relationship modelling has become a necessary skill set.

Objective Corporation has broadened the reach of its cloud file sharing platform, Objective Connect, to users of the HP TRIM EDRMS.

Sweeping privacy reforms that came into effect on the 12 March 2014 are the most significant changes to the Privacy Act 1988 since it came into force 25 years ago.  The 13 new Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) regulate the handling of personal information by the Australian Government and businesses with an annual turnover of more than $3 million.