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Many organisations are facing challenges in setting metadata and applying properties to content stored in SharePoint. At Prometix we experienced this issue recently when delivering a large document management rollout project.

Simon Froude has been announced as the new Director-General of the National Archives of Australia (National Archives). Five new members have also been appointed to the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council.

An odd list to be grouped together, but probably anyone reading this article has an interest in all these items, whether that’s good or not. Before we dive a little deeper into the main article, let’s see if we can make any eliminations to get to our target topic. 

Australia’s financial sector regulator APRA has issued an RFI seeking information on a new digital Knowledge Management System to assist with its digital transformation. According to the tender documents, the “framework” APRA employs to manage the sector is currently spread across 350+ individual PDFs that need to be regularly updated.

Australian financial services businesses are leading the Asia Pacific in robotic process automation (RPA) adoption, with 78% of Australian organisations currently using these type of solutions according to a new survey report from Blue Prism titled “RPA In The APAC Financial Services Sector."

IT workers are more inclined to quit their jobs than employees in other functions, with a 10.2% lower intent to stay than non-IT employees - the lowest out of all corporate functions, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Gartner surveyed 18,000 employees globally in Q4 2021, including 1,755 employees in the IT function. Responses were collected monthly across 40 different countries in 15 languages.

If you are reading this article, then there is a very high chance that at some point in the not-too-distant past you have googled the term ‘data governance framework’. Not only that, but you’ve also probably also had a whole myriad of answers come back. Some of which probably make it look really, really complicated.

Life begins to unfurl around the world. Not only can we go outside to spend time with friends and family, but we’re also seeing a surge in people wanting to speak with us about how to improve their approaches to information management in Microsoft 365. The increase is not surprising at all as organisations are becoming more mature in their roll outs and are now needing to tackle issues like information retention.

I’ve been doing data governance for a long time now. And it’s safe to say that time and time again, from organisation to organisation, I come across the same mistakes and misconceptions that are limiting organisation's chances of implementing data governance successfully.

The role of cybersecurity leader needs to evolve, as accountability for cyber risk shifts outside IT and an increasingly distributed ecosystem leads to a loss of direct decision-making control, according to Gartner, Inc.