In an era where data management challenges are multiplying exponentially, information professionals have a new resource at their disposal. The American Library Association's Neal-Schuman imprint has published the third edition of "Records and Information Management," a reference text for both students and RIM professionals.
"Data Management is witnessing its ChatGPT moment,” claims Rohit Choudhary, founder and CEO of Acceldata, which has just launched its own Agentic Data Management (Agentic DM) platform.
There is a significant disconnect between businesses' ambitions for AI and their investment in compliance and risk mitigation, according to the Ataccama Data Trust Report 2025: Turning Compliance and Risk Mitigation into a Foundation for Strategic AI, which found that that one in five businesses lack a data governance framework.
With the increasing importance of data, many organisations are asking whether they need both a data strategy and a Data Governance strategy. I've been doing Data Governance for over twenty years now and I'll be honest - in the first fifteen years, no one even talked about a data strategy or a Data Governance strategy. But, before we dive into the answer, let's start by getting the basics straight.
As the modern organisation enters a new phase of technological evolution with the widespread move towards smarter systems based upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), the volume and accessibility of data with which to feed these systems will become critical.
After a year of shoehorning generative AI into its flagship products, Microsoft is trying to recoup the costs by raising prices, putting ads in products, and cancelling data centre leases. Google is making similar moves, adding unavoidable AI features to its Workspace service while increasing prices.
The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) has become the cornerstone for digitizing physical records and cultural heritage materials within the United States. FADGI has set critical benchmarks for image quality, consistency, and preservation, and the guidelines are beginning to show signs of international adoption, including at the National Library of Australia.
In a world drowning in corporate data, artificial intelligence is emerging as the life raft that major organizations are desperately reaching for. This was the clear message from OpenText's February 20 Sydney Summit, where industry leaders shared their struggles with information overload and their hopes for AI-driven solutions.
Kapish has won a contract worth just under $3.7 million to move the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) onto a single cloud-based record management system.
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has found that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has only "partly effective arrangements" in place to support its adoption of artificial intelligence, despite having 43 AI models in production.
