Industry Insider

  • Redland City Council selects Objective ECM

    Queensland's Redland City Council has selected Objective ECM 8 as its next generation enterprise content management (ECM) platform. Objective ECM 8 will be deployed to 900 Redland City Council employees. 

  • ECM splashdown at Macquarie University

    Neil Fraser's first days on the job as Macquarie University's new Director of Information in July 2010 were not some of his happiest. Macquarie University has a goal of moving 10 million assets from shared drives and other campus repositories into its centralised Alfresco Enterprise ECM platform by the end of 2014, however the journey began inauspiciously.

  • DAM as cloudy as you like it ...

    Digital asset management (DAM) software maker Picturepark offers a browser-based DAM that works in the cloud (SaaS), on-site or as a hybrid. Leveraging Microsoft .NET and SOA for global integration possibilities, CEO Ramon Foster believes the Swiss-made solution offers a unique ability to handle the multimedia needs of a single department or scale to satisfy the needs of a global multinational requiring a multi-tenanted approach.  

  • Council takes paperless path

    Bayside City Council has implemented an EzeScan production batch scanning solution to assist with its long term migration towards electronic document and records management for over 500 users.

  • ISO/IEC 27001:2013 information security standard arrives

    The revised BS ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and BS ISO/IEC 27002:2013 standards have been published. The standards which help businesses manage information security were first conceived at BSI, the business standards company, in the shape of BS 7799. 

  • Top 7 SharePoint document scanning best practices

    Are you planning to scan and digitise all your paper documents and manage them electronically in SharePoint?  Then you are in the right place. SharePoint is a mature Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform that allows you to manage the full lifecycle of content in an orgnisation. However in order to get the maximum value of its rich ECM capabilities you need get the content into SharePoint the right way

  • Hitec takes on Australian partner

    Hitec Laboratories (Hitec), a provider of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software solutions, has announced a partnership with Sydney-based GRC Solutions.

  • Lexmark Acquires PACSGEAR

    Lexmark International has acquired PACSGEAR, a provider of connectivity solutions for healthcare providers to capture, manage and share medical images and related documents and integrate them with existing picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems. Lexmark paid a cash purchase price of approximately $US54 million.

  • Developing a Legal Risk Model for Big Volumes of Unstructured Data

    A not-so-hidden secret in information management is the out-of-control growth of unstructured data in corporate life. Millions of data files are stashed in loosely tracked and managed sources such as email, social media sites, and SharePoint, and the contents of these massive repositories are often poorly managed and understood. Unstructured data accounts for 90 percent of the digital universe, according to IDC, which estimates that these files are growing at a rate of 50 percent per year.