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School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) goes digital

The School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) based in Western Australia has significantly reduced its manual enrolments administration with a solution from Konica Minolta and FileBound.

Putting policy front and centre at Edith Cowan University

Records Management is never as easy to sell as it probably should be. The staff at Edith Cowan University (ECU) engaged the services of Information Proficiency to centralise management of policy documents, demonstrating the benefits of a centralised repository.

BCE takes the pain and paper-handling out of payroll processing

The headaches of handling paper forms and records can quickly add up when managing payroll for an organisation with more than 11,500 employees. A successful backscanning and digitisation project at Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) has removed a lot of the pain from payroll administration.

iCognition to move UNSW to TRIM-as-a-Service cloud

Information Management and Governance specialist, iCognition, has won a large three-year contract to transition the University of NSW HPE TRIM Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to the cloud and expand its usage, initially to 3,200 users but with the capability for 10,000 users.

UNSW develops research data archive

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has launched a Research Data Archive to provide an institution-wide long-term storage platform. It has been designed specifically for researchers to securely search and share data with colleagues and comply with research data policies and codes of practice.

Uni moving 6000 staff away from Google

Macquarie University is migrating staff email away from Gmail to Office 365, due to concerns about data sovereignty. The university plans for all staff email and calendars to be migrated to Office 365 by the end of this year.

UQ simplifies managing student life

The quest to automate manual processes to improve organisational efficiency at the University of Queensland is one step further along the road with the implementation of an EzeScan solution to register student email into its HP TRIM EDRMS.

Parasol takes flight with data capture

An ABBYY  FlexiCapture data capture solution is delivering significant savings in staff time for Registered Training Organisation PARASOL, a provider of First Aid and Occupational Health and Safety training through a network of 300 third-party co-providers across Australia. 

Thailand selects Office 365 for every student nationwide

Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) and Microsoft (Thailand) Limited have  signed a memorandum of understanding that will provide 8 million students and 400,000 teachers across Thailand with access to Microsoft Office 365 for education. The agreement, which also includes the extension of the highly successful Partners in Learning initiative to 2019, represents the single biggest cloud service deployment for Microsoft in the education sector globally.

ECM splashdown at Macquarie University

Neil Fraser's first days on the job as Macquarie University's new Director of Information in July 2010 were not some of his happiest. Macquarie University has a goal of moving 10 million assets from shared drives and other campus repositories into its centralised Alfresco Enterprise ECM platform by the end of 2014, however the journey began inauspiciously.

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