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  • Zombie financials threaten Victoria

    The Victorian Auditor-General has found that state agencies are under increasing risk from using IT systems that are past or approaching their end-of-life.

  • Uni moving 6000 staff away from Google

    Macquarie University is migrating staff email away from Gmail to Office 365, due to concerns about data sovereignty. The university plans for all staff email and calendars to be migrated to Office 365 by the end of this year.

  • What is SharePoint?  Where are we going?

    My response to the question, “what do you do for a living”? can vary depending on how much patience the person I am talking to appears to have, from ”I work in IT”, ”I build intranets of a sort” to the outright, ”I am a SharePoint Specialist.” I am normally then presented with one of two responses:

  • Beating the backup blues at PFD Food Services

    A move to the Amazon cloud for data backups is paying dividends for PFD Food Services, Australia’s largest privately owned fresh and frozen food distributor with $A1.5 billion turnover, 2,200 staff and over 65 sites across Australia.

  • Unstructured Data Analytics Shouldn’t Be Such a Mess

    The problem with searching for a needle in a haystack is that the process, by nature, is inefficient. So why has it become a popular analogy for analytics efforts within the enterprise? Because today’s analytics attempts – particularly for unstructured human data – are typically a mess.

  • How to manage documents with OneDrive for Business

    Many businesses are using SharePoint as an excellent platform for managing content, sharing information and connecting with others. What is less widely recognised is the ability of OneDrive for Business, which comes with SharePoint 2013, to improve the way you organise your documents and collaborate with colleagues.

  • Migrating Millions of Legal Documents to SharePoint 

    ​Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths recently replaced their document management system (Hummingbird DM6) with a new solution based on MacroView DMF and Microsoft SharePoint (see the  Case Study).  A critically important part of this project was the migration of nearly 3 million existing documents.  Challenges included the need to move multiple versions of most documents, to preserve existing metadata and document-level permissions – as well as coping with the differences in how SharePoint operates compared to the previous traditional DM system.  In this article we look at how these challenges were handled so that the migration was a success.

  • Information Value Index sets low benchmark

    Just four percent of businesses are able to extract the full value from the information they hold, with over a third (36 percent) lacking the tools and skills they need to do so, according to new research from storage and information management company, Iron Mountain and PwC. As a result, 43 percent of the European and North American companies surveyed obtain little tangible benefit from their information, and 23 percent derive no benefit whatsoever.

  • How better document management can stop businesses wasting money

    Many companies lose significant amounts of money and productivity each year just because their document management and printing processes aren’t optimised. For example, 60 per cent of small- and medium-sized organisations want to reduce paper usage1, and 90 per cent of organisations have suffered at least one data loss through unsecured printing, according to Gartner.

  • Electronic signatures and their legal validity in Australia

    We all know that technology is advancing at a rapid pace.  The way we contact and interact with one another today would be unrecognisable to anyone who conducted the same tasks 20 years ago.  More and more, people are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do business – for ways to close the gap between contacts on the other side of the world.

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  • Zombie financials threaten Victoria

    The Victorian Auditor-General has found that state agencies are under increasing risk from using IT systems that are past or approaching their end-of-life.

  • Uni moving 6000 staff away from Google

    Macquarie University is migrating staff email away from Gmail to Office 365, due to concerns about data sovereignty. The university plans for all staff email and calendars to be migrated to Office 365 by the end of this year.

  • What is SharePoint?  Where are we going?

    My response to the question, “what do you do for a living”? can vary depending on how much patience the person I am talking to appears to have, from ”I work in IT”, ”I build intranets of a sort” to the outright, ”I am a SharePoint Specialist.” I am normally then presented with one of two responses:

  • Beating the backup blues at PFD Food Services

    A move to the Amazon cloud for data backups is paying dividends for PFD Food Services, Australia’s largest privately owned fresh and frozen food distributor with $A1.5 billion turnover, 2,200 staff and over 65 sites across Australia.

  • Unstructured Data Analytics Shouldn’t Be Such a Mess

    The problem with searching for a needle in a haystack is that the process, by nature, is inefficient. So why has it become a popular analogy for analytics efforts within the enterprise? Because today’s analytics attempts – particularly for unstructured human data – are typically a mess.

  • How to manage documents with OneDrive for Business

    Many businesses are using SharePoint as an excellent platform for managing content, sharing information and connecting with others. What is less widely recognised is the ability of OneDrive for Business, which comes with SharePoint 2013, to improve the way you organise your documents and collaborate with colleagues.

  • Migrating Millions of Legal Documents to SharePoint 

    ​Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths recently replaced their document management system (Hummingbird DM6) with a new solution based on MacroView DMF and Microsoft SharePoint (see the  Case Study).  A critically important part of this project was the migration of nearly 3 million existing documents.  Challenges included the need to move multiple versions of most documents, to preserve existing metadata and document-level permissions – as well as coping with the differences in how SharePoint operates compared to the previous traditional DM system.  In this article we look at how these challenges were handled so that the migration was a success.

  • Information Value Index sets low benchmark

    Just four percent of businesses are able to extract the full value from the information they hold, with over a third (36 percent) lacking the tools and skills they need to do so, according to new research from storage and information management company, Iron Mountain and PwC. As a result, 43 percent of the European and North American companies surveyed obtain little tangible benefit from their information, and 23 percent derive no benefit whatsoever.

  • How better document management can stop businesses wasting money

    Many companies lose significant amounts of money and productivity each year just because their document management and printing processes aren’t optimised. For example, 60 per cent of small- and medium-sized organisations want to reduce paper usage1, and 90 per cent of organisations have suffered at least one data loss through unsecured printing, according to Gartner.

  • Electronic signatures and their legal validity in Australia

    We all know that technology is advancing at a rapid pace.  The way we contact and interact with one another today would be unrecognisable to anyone who conducted the same tasks 20 years ago.  More and more, people are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do business – for ways to close the gap between contacts on the other side of the world.

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