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An effective information governance strategy depends on many intricate pieces. Like a jigsaw puzzle, if all of those pieces don’t fit together, the whole is not going to show the entire picture. If you have captured, processed and archived some of your business information, but not all of it, there are missing pieces of the information governance puzzle. It is important to understand where your information comes from, how to ensure it is available for analysis, and how you plan to access it in the future.

Has any enterprise solution ever been as maligned as much and as often as ECM has been over the past few years? Disproportionately high numbers of failed initiatives, endless issues with user adoption, persistent reports of its imminent demise as a business priority… How did the stark reality of ECM’s performance end up crash landing so far from its original promise for many organizations? And, more importantly, what are the strategies and tactics that will allow ECM to finally achieve its potential as the centrepiece of information governance and a principal driver of business value?

Although most Australian businesses understand the importance of monitoring and managing employee expenses and supplier invoices, they have not yet appreciated the value of automated systems, according to the 2015 Concur ANZ spend management index.

Malcolm Turnbull has had many high-profile careers, including as a barrister, merchant banker and aspiring media proprietor. By far his most lucrative, however, was in the IT industry.

Aiming to transform into paperless organisation by 2020, New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment (MfE) is deploying OpenText Enterprise Content Management-as-a-Service. Based in Wellington, MfE is the government’s principal adviser on policies, laws and issues affecting the environment. 

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn’t the only one who used a personal email account to conduct government business, with sole discretion over which emails she kept or deleted. US Department of Energy employees routinely use private email accounts for public business and decide on their own which emails to keep or delete, according to the DOE Office of Inspector General. The US government employs more than 13,000 people at the department.

The world’s digital infrastructure is currently characterized by a plethora of data interchange formats. It’s not the least bit surprising that such a multiplicity undergirds things at the moment. The internet is scarcely a generation old, while the “Internet of Things” and “Big Data” more closely resemble regulative ideals than realities. But I nonetheless believe that there are strong, discernible historical tendencies currently at work in this field, tendencies that strongly favour JSON over others.

New Zealand’s Chief Archivist Marilyn Little has released the report of her review into Prime Minister John Key’s record-keeping practices in regard to text messages.

The value of intellectual property was $US329 billion worldwide in 2013, accounting for 1.5% of the $US22.2 trillion of the financial flows tracked by the World Trade Organization. In the United States, the $US128 billion in intellectual property (royalty and licensing income) generated by US companies accounted for 5.6% of the $US2.28 trillion in US exports, making intellectual property revenues second only to food and agriculture exports.

At the recent Chief Data Officer Summit in Melbourne, Veritas Senior Vice President Greg Muscarella presented a session on The Importance of Gaining Insight into Your Unstructured Data. Afterwards, IDM asked Greg to outline some of his recommendations. Greg leads Product Management and Engineering for the Veritas Information Intelligence team where he is responsible for products such as Data Insight, Information Map, Enterprise Vault and Enterprise Vault.cloud, and the eDiscovery Platform powered by Clearwell.