Industry Insider

  • Victoria all atwitter about social media records

    Can I delete a tweet or permanently scrub a post to my Facebook Wall? Victorian government employees are being advised to contact their records management staff before sending their latest social media interactions to the recycle bin.

  • Google Apps dives into ediscovery

    An ediscovery application has been launched for Google Apps known as Vault aimed at reducing the costs of litigation, regulatory investigation and compliance actions.

  • Lexmark acquires ISYS Search Software and Nolij

    Lexmark continues to beef up its information management portfolio, with this week’s purchase of Australia’s ISYS Search Software and U.S.–based Nolij Corporation adding to recent acquisitions in the ECM and capture fields, Perceptive Software and Brainware.

  • Pingar wins SharePoint Idol award

    Pingar won its round of SharePoint Idol at the 2012 Australia SharePoint Conference held in Melbourne 20-21 March, 2012, where different solutions are presented and then voted on by conferencegoers in a competitive bake-off.

  • Infragistics acquires mobile SharePoint app

    Infragistics, a company traditionally specialising in user interface development, has acquired a platform that extends Sharepoint apps seamlessly to the iPad,  iPhone and other non-Windows mobile platforms.

  • Digital postbox to launch in 2012

    A joint venture between service bureaus Computershare and SALMAT is readying the launch of Zumbox in Australia, providing a service called Digital Post Australia.

     
  • Cumulus on the radar at CSIRO

    As image asset management challenges go, they don’t get much bigger. Dr Jessica Chapman walked into a new role at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility in 2000 to find that as part of her job she had been put in charge of an archive of 100,000 negatives documenting the history of radio astronomy from 1946 to 1996.