Enterprise Content Management
The vast majority of Australian businesses are now using some form of cloud computing and cloud-based email is a common choice for local organisations. Since the start of this year, retailer Woolworths and publishers News Corp and Fairfax have announced plans to switch their on-premises email systems to Google Apps, while Qantas and the Queensland Government said they were shifting to Microsoft’s Office 365.
TopQuadrant, a semantic data integration company, has released version 4.5 of TopBraid Suite, a collection of web-based solutions that simplify the development and management of standards-based, model-driven solutions for enterprise taxonomy and ontology management, metadata and reference data governance, and data virtualization.
In my time in this business (enterprise content management, records management, document management, etc.) I have been asked to help with a ‘shared drive problem’ more times than I can remember. This particular issue is analogous with the paperless office problem. Thirty years ago when I started my company I naively thought that both problems would be long gone by now but they are not. I still get requests for purely physical records management solutions and I still get requests to assist customers in sorting out their shared drives problems.
A string of successes in the local government market has helped Objective Corporation report an 18% jump in revenue for the 2014 Financial Year.
World Software Corporation has announced the availability of DocsCorp’s contentCrawler as an add-on tool to the Worldox document management system (DMS).
Consultancy Analytics8 has announced the Contextual Intelligence Challenge (www.contextualintelligence.com.au), a competition for business intelligence professionals to submit their innovative use cases for leveraging the Squirro unstructured data analytics platform to their organisational advantage.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has been awarded the Rob Barnett Award for Excellence in Records and Information Management by the ACT Branch of RIM Professionals Australasia.
Lexmark is back in the lead in the race to acquire enterprise capture vendor ReadSoft, after a new offer that pushes its bid up to $US248 million, around 20% more than its initial bid in May.
Ediscovery vendor Epiq Systems has found that while more than three-quarters of the corporations it surveyed feel confident in their ability to locate key data in the face of litigation or investigation, only around half of these continually monitor and update their data map, suggesting such confidence may be misplaced.
MacroView has announced an update to its Document Management Framework designed to extend the native document management capabilities of SharePoint.
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