Enterprise Content Management

In this article, Kapish Consultant Jon Grundy explores HP’s latest solution to regaining control of the growing records governance and compliance issues associated with snowballing SharePoint content in the enterprise. Jon Grundy is a highly experienced TRIM consultant with a diverse range of industry experience including nine years of HP TRIM/HP RM administration and support. Jon worked with both TOWER Software and HP before joining Kapish in December 2013.

I might be a little old fashioned, but I came up through an Electronic Content Management (ECM) and Transaction Content Management (TCM) community where you never put BLOBs directly in your database. By BLOBs, I am referring to Binary Large Objects (not the 1988 thriller movie) which are chunks of images or other large data stored as a single object. I was taught that the database should hold pointers to BLOB content stored on another inexpensive storage system like SAN or NAS drives. However, when I entered the world of SharePoint, I realised that everyone was storing BLOBs in their databases.

Acaveo, a provider of File Analysis software for analysing and managing unstructured data, has been awarded a Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) contract to deploy its software at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Macedon Ranges Shire Council is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 1,747 square kilometres and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 41,860.  It is home to distinctive mountain range of the same name, and the iconic Hanging Rock.  The region is popular with both domestic and international visitors, due to its natural attractions, wineries, and its proximity and accessibility to the Melbourne metropolitan area.

RAVN Systems has released a new version of its RAVN Pipeline to provide enterprise-grade indexing for its Elasticsearch search platform.

Dell’s 10 year program to build an end-to-end enterprise software suite reached its culmination this week with the stunning $US67 billion takeover of EMC, rounding out the company’s portfolio with a compressive set of solutions for unstructured data management.

Layer2 has announced version 7 of its Business Data List Connector (BDLC) that connects 100+ external data sources with SharePoint lists without coding and closes many gaps that still exist with out-of-the-box SharePoint data integration.

Shortly after Lexmark’s $US1 billion acquisition of Kofax, Howard Dratler was appointed head of sales with Lexmark’s Enterprise Software division and placed in charge of the global field organisation. On a recent visit to the region, IDM got the opportunity to quiz Dratler on the progress of merging the operations of Perceptive Software, Kofax and ReadSoft.

If you are in charge of a company or organisation or even a large department, then you will have heard the term “information governance”, and you will have probably asked yourself: “What is it I need to know about this new field?” You will want an answer that is not just theoretical but practically relates the definition of information governance with your organization’s or division’s core tasks and responsibilities.

Recall has launched a new information governance tool to manage physical and electric records, known as CommandIG, and available as a cloud-based or on-premise solution.

Pages