Industry Insider

In 2013, high-profile data leaks led many people to question how governments and businesses across the globe gather and store citizens’ data. The year also saw no end to the growth in corporate data stores and Australian companies moving more of their data to the cloud.

Search is important, but not viewed as a key component in Information Governance, according to the results of an annual SharePoint Metadata Survey completed by Concept Searching, a developer of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software.

Hong Kong is the number one location in Asia Pacific when it comes to suitability for setting up new and outsourced data centres. This is followed by Singapore and Taiwan.

The National Archives of Australia (NAA) is reviewing the Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT). AGIFT uses common terms to describe the business functions of Australian Commonwealth, state and local governments. This makes it easier for people to find information across all levels of government. 

Australian OpenText clients will be delivered better network performance and data sovereignty for cloud-hosted applications at a new local data centre, the company has announced.

Canon subsidiary Image Recognition Integrated Systems (I.R.I.S.) is seeking global opportunities for a distributed voting capture platform it has developed with online voting solutions developer Scytl, A Spanish company with which it has already accomplished digital election projects in Ecuador and Honduras in 2013.

With the recent announcement from Microsoft that InfoPath has been scheduled for retirement an anxious debate has broken out about what life is going to be like after InfoPath.

Hertz Australia says it has saved $A70,000 in its first 10 months of live operation by reducing the time and labour to process accounting documents with Kofax capture solutions.

Imaging distributor Alloys has extended its Australian footprint to include operations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. The expansion is a result of the recent Alloys acquisition of Integrex Systems, which was announced in July 2013. 

Objective Corporation has announced ongoing expansion in local government, with Sutherland Shire Council and Redland City Council in Australia, as well as Tauranga City Council, Gisborne and Nelson District Councils in New Zealand, selecting the next generation information and process management solution, Objective ECM 8.