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The aim of records management is simple: keep what you need and discard what you don’t. When this aim is achieved, organizations are less exposed to risk. The question is, how can we achieve this simple goal?

Is there any domain that has a broader mix of terminologies that need to be comprehended, or a greater need for system integration? Over the years doctors developed their own specialised languages and lexicons to help them store and communicate general medical knowledge and patient-related information efficiently. The promise of a global standard for Electronic Health Care Records is still years away.

I might be a little old fashioned, but I came up through an Electronic Content Management (ECM) and Transaction Content Management (TCM) community where you never put BLOBs directly in your database. By BLOBs, I am referring to Binary Large Objects (not the 1988 thriller movie) which are chunks of images or other large data stored as a single object. I was taught that the database should hold pointers to BLOB content stored on another inexpensive storage system like SAN or NAS drives. However, when I entered the world of SharePoint, I realised that everyone was storing BLOBs in their databases.

Acaveo, a provider of File Analysis software for analysing and managing unstructured data, has been awarded a Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) contract to deploy its software at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Anyone who's had the responsibility to manage an end-user centred system has heard this refrain when asking people to get rid of old emails, documents, files, voice mail recordings, pictures, or any other electronically stored information (ESI). "I need it to do my job" or "It has business value and I need to save it".

Macedon Ranges Shire Council is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 1,747 square kilometres and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 41,860.  It is home to distinctive mountain range of the same name, and the iconic Hanging Rock.  The region is popular with both domestic and international visitors, due to its natural attractions, wineries, and its proximity and accessibility to the Melbourne metropolitan area.

Texthelp, a provider of software for the education sector, has incorporated ABBYY’s Cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter app for Google Apps for Education users.

IBM has introduced new data discovery and question-and-answer capabilities for Watson Analytics that promises to make it easier for users to extract insights from their data. IBM also announced widespread adoption, with half a million professionals registering for the Watson data exploration and visualization service since its introduction less than a year ago.

Dell’s 10 year program to build an end-to-end enterprise software suite reached its culmination this week with the stunning $US67 billion takeover of EMC, rounding out the company’s portfolio with a compressive set of solutions for unstructured data management.

Claiming that “forcing GPs to adopt half-baked e-health record [is] a dud idea,” the Australian Medical Association (AMA), has opposed government plans to link GP incentive payments to the adoption of the scheme.