Document & Records Management
New research has revealed that the majority of organizations do not have a coherent long-term strategy for their vital digital information even though virtually all of them (98%) are required to keep information for 10 years or longer. Further, while 97% of information professionals understand the need for a specialised approach to these assets, only 11% are storing them in systems specifically designed to ensure long-term protection and access. This gap has economic, legal, and business competitiveness implications.
For a great many organizations email is the part of the information resource that is in greatest need of improved management. Emails can be an important part of the documentation trail for transactions, yet are often ‘managed’ by having users save them in private folders within their Outlook mailboxes.
While a lot of speculation remains around Dell's proposed $US60 billion-plus acquisition of EMC, which could close any time in the next few months, the company’s Enterprise Content Division is bringing its key executives to Sydney on June 9 for a full day seminar on the future landscape of content management in the digital era.
ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data (Australia) has deployed Nuance Power PDF to reduce its current PDF costs.
The Citadel Group Limited (CGL), a $200 million listed Australian solution provider to Governments and the private sector, has acquired Kapish for $A17.5 million. Kapish is one of only two Australian Gold Business Partners for the HPE Content Manager (ex TRIM/RM) suite of document and records management solutions (the other is Optus).
Upland Software has launched a new release of its FileBound document management suite featuring new forms capabilities and improved workflow automation. These new functions reduce common time-consuming tasks and provide simplified workflow and document management.
Australian technology company Nuix has released Sensitive Data Finder 2.2, an upgrade that adds visualisations and other analysis features to streamline common tasks and identify high-risk information sooner.
For government CIOs, establishing an e-government model is just the first step on a journey to becoming a mature digital services organisation.
Listed New Zealand document management, and data technology provider, the G3 Group, has reported a profit increase of 12% on the previous year after acquiring Melbourne based firm Formfile earlier in the year.
Experts have been nagging information and records managers for years that preparing for electronic discovery in the ordinary course of business is critical. The links between the two disciplines has been underlined with the announcement that Open Text has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Recommind, a leading provider of ediscovery, and information analytics.
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