Adding to its subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Singapore, India’s Newgen Software Technologies Limited has now opened an Australian office as part of a concerted push into the A/NZ market. IDM asked the Chairman and Managing Director, Diwakar Nigam, who co-founded the firm in 1992, to outline local plans for the firm’s suite of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Business Process Management (BPM) and Customer Communication Management (CCM) solutions.
Organisations depend on operational data to drive improvements in all areas of an enterprise, but a new survey reveals that data volumes are affecting productivity. Two thirds (68 percent) report their organisation has so much data they struggle to make use of it all.
CSIRO’s Data61 has formed a consortium with law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and IBM to build Australia’s first cross-industry, large-scale, digital platform to enable Australian businesses to collaborate using blockchain-based smart legal contracts.
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) will be the first Australian Government agency to deploy Office 365 for Protected email and collaboration, taking advantage of the platform’s Protected certification, awarded by the Australian Signals Directorate earlier this year.
Organizations look to information governance professionals to provide strategy tips and risk assessment. A key focus of their job is to comprehensively and intelligently classify corporate data.
It is often challenging when confidentially breaches and compliance concerns are acknowledged and addressed differently across a business. Some departments are much more attuned to the types of data breach risks their business is vulnerable to, while others are further removed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a larger role in businesses of all types. Companies are deploying different types of AI (e.g., machine learning and deep neural networks) across a wide variety of applications, including logistics. In fact, a recent McKinsey Global Institute report indicates that AI could produce up to $2 trillion in additional value in supply chain management and manufacturing.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies a strict regime when personal data is transferred outside EU territory. In principle, it requires that an equivalent level of protection and safeguards are still afforded to such data, when this is processed outside European soil.
