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Many organisations are keen to experience the well documented features and benefits of SharePoint 2013. The question in most cases isn't whether to stay with SharePoint, instead the challenge is to implement a foolproof SharePoint migration and upgrade roadmap, and this is where a Search-first strategy can help.

The deal to acquire Kofax by Lexmark International has been sealed with the final price exceeding $US1 billion, and Kofax Reynolds Bish stepping into the chair as president of Lexmark’s Enterprise Software division.

An inquiry into practises of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Parliamentary Services has learned that inadequate documentary evidence was provided due to poor management of the TRIM recordkeeping system. The committee of inquiry was inquiring into the process surrounding the choice of a photographer by former Department of Parliamentary Services secretary Carol Mills to document the Australian Parliament's 25th anniversary.

Every one of Australia’s 200 Commonwealth Government agencies will have a dedicated information specialist on staff by the year 2020, according to a timetable laid out by David Fricker, Director-General of the National Archives.

Leading Australian pharmacy retail network Chemist Warehouse has selected solution provider Xcellerate IT to implement Kofax’s TotalAgility platform to streamline its accounts payable (AP) processes.

Whitsunday Regional Council has implemented an EzeScan scanning solution to manage incoming and outgoing mail digitisation into a TechnologyOne ECM platform. The council spent a considerable amount of time benchmarking three scanning products before making its selection.

Stewart MacLeod, Manager, Knowledge and Development at State Trustees, believes KM must work hand in hand with culture and competency strategies, to ensure that employees share and support one another.

The humble fileshare has been one of the biggest barriers to knowledge management, according to Peter Laws, General Manager of Business Information Systems at Mind Australia. The organisation is tackling the issue with the implementation of Knowledgeone RecFind 6 an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to manage a range of corporate files including contracts, personnel files and email correspondence, and improve the organisation’s access to stored information.

Actor Johnny Depp could have avoided the threat of his Yorkshire Terriers Boo and Pistol being put down by Australian Customs officials if he had completed a simple application form online at the Department of Agriculture Web site.  The large Australian Commonwealth agency is underway with a huge end-to end digital drive to assist in the fight to maintain Australia’s biosecurity, although it appears the Hollywood star considered his ability to fly the dogs in on his private jet entitled him to sidestep official requirements.

Data Migration is a topic that gets raised time and time again in our industry, and people continue to struggle in getting it right. At some point you will likely be faced with the challenge of migrating data into your EDRMS.