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  • NSW Parliament introduces new Bill to support ePlanning

    On 22nd October an amendment of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Bill was introduced by Pru Goward (Minister for Planning) to the NSW Parliament. The Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 facilitates the introduction of ePlanning for NSW via an online planning portal

  • Commission fears for WA State records

    The inability of the WA State Records Office to accept physical or digital records from government agencies has been highlighted as a cause for concern in the 2013/2014 Annual Report for the WA State Records Commission

  • When collaboration is the objective

    Objective founder and CEO Tony Walls says his newly revitalised relationship with Microsoft reaffirms his long felt “calmness around SharePoint” as a market disrupting force. 

  • Uncovering terrorist financing at Austrac: IIM2014

    A new speaker add to the conference program at the IIM 2014 National Conference being held from 27-28 October at the University of Canberra will explore the murky world of money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF).  

  • Cost of cyber attacks increases by 10.4% in 2014

    Ponemon Institute, an organization that conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, released a report entitled “2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime” sponsored by HP Enterprise Security. The data put forth in the report is based on 257 representative sample organizations operating in various industries and sectors of seven countries, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, and for the first time, the Russian Federation.

  • Empired to acquire Intergen Ltd for $A17.4M

    Australian listed IT services company Empired has acquired IT services provider Intergen for $A17.4 million due to be paid over a three year period with $A5m paid on completion through a combination of cash and shares. 

  • Cooper Grace Ward moves to NetDocuments

    Australian law firm, Cooper Grace Ward, has switched their document and email management from iManage to the NetDocuments cloud-based document management and collaboration platform.

  • Acaveo vs Varonis for unstructured data

    We’ve been asked several times in recent weeks about the Acaveo vs Varonis comparison.  The question is best answered at a high-level since the two companies’ solutions are more adjacent, rather than competitive, to each other.

  • Auckland uses big data analytics to improve safety

    The city of Auckland is deploying video analytics to help provide a safe community and more efficient roadways for its residents. Auckland Transport, the government agency responsible for the transportation infrastructure and services, has chosen the HP IDOL information analytics platform to power an innovative big data project.

  • Increasing invoice volume challenges Accounts Payable departments: IFO

    Accounts payable operations are seeing their invoice volumes increase, signalling improvements in revenue, but they’re not celebrating just yet. That’s because they’re bogged down in manual, paper-based processes instead of taking full advantage of automation. Those are among the findings of the 2014 AP Automation Study by The Institute of Financial Operations, which surveys accounts payable professionals internationally every year about the use of the latest forms of technology. 

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  • NSW Parliament introduces new Bill to support ePlanning

    On 22nd October an amendment of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Bill was introduced by Pru Goward (Minister for Planning) to the NSW Parliament. The Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 facilitates the introduction of ePlanning for NSW via an online planning portal

  • Commission fears for WA State records

    The inability of the WA State Records Office to accept physical or digital records from government agencies has been highlighted as a cause for concern in the 2013/2014 Annual Report for the WA State Records Commission

  • When collaboration is the objective

    Objective founder and CEO Tony Walls says his newly revitalised relationship with Microsoft reaffirms his long felt “calmness around SharePoint” as a market disrupting force. 

  • Uncovering terrorist financing at Austrac: IIM2014

    A new speaker add to the conference program at the IIM 2014 National Conference being held from 27-28 October at the University of Canberra will explore the murky world of money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF).  

  • Cost of cyber attacks increases by 10.4% in 2014

    Ponemon Institute, an organization that conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, released a report entitled “2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime” sponsored by HP Enterprise Security. The data put forth in the report is based on 257 representative sample organizations operating in various industries and sectors of seven countries, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, and for the first time, the Russian Federation.

  • Empired to acquire Intergen Ltd for $A17.4M

    Australian listed IT services company Empired has acquired IT services provider Intergen for $A17.4 million due to be paid over a three year period with $A5m paid on completion through a combination of cash and shares. 

  • Cooper Grace Ward moves to NetDocuments

    Australian law firm, Cooper Grace Ward, has switched their document and email management from iManage to the NetDocuments cloud-based document management and collaboration platform.

  • Acaveo vs Varonis for unstructured data

    We’ve been asked several times in recent weeks about the Acaveo vs Varonis comparison.  The question is best answered at a high-level since the two companies’ solutions are more adjacent, rather than competitive, to each other.

  • Auckland uses big data analytics to improve safety

    The city of Auckland is deploying video analytics to help provide a safe community and more efficient roadways for its residents. Auckland Transport, the government agency responsible for the transportation infrastructure and services, has chosen the HP IDOL information analytics platform to power an innovative big data project.

  • Increasing invoice volume challenges Accounts Payable departments: IFO

    Accounts payable operations are seeing their invoice volumes increase, signalling improvements in revenue, but they’re not celebrating just yet. That’s because they’re bogged down in manual, paper-based processes instead of taking full advantage of automation. Those are among the findings of the 2014 AP Automation Study by The Institute of Financial Operations, which surveys accounts payable professionals internationally every year about the use of the latest forms of technology. 

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