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Imperial War Museums Preservation of Invaluable Historical Assets

The UK’s Imperial War Museums (IWM) has deployed Spectra StorCycle Storage Lifecycle Management Software to enhance its existing storage infrastructure, which supports its audio-visual and exhibitions departments to preserve invaluable data, including thousands of films, videotapes, audio recordings and photographs that would otherwise disintegrate and be lost forever were they not digitised.

NAA’s death by a thousand cuts

The National Archives of Australia (NAA) is facing substantial challenges primarily caused by shrinking financial resources over the past 5 years, according to a major review submitted to the Attorney-General in January 2020, which has just been publicly released. The government has said it is considering the report which found there has been there has been a 16% staff reduction at the NAA between 2014–15 and 2019–20.

Tackling the Insurance Industry’s Unique Automation Challenges

Insurance companies were among the earliest adopters of the first wave of digital transformation - simply because their whole business is processing information from documents. Erwin Schwarzl, a senior executive at TCG Process, outlines why some of the world’s largest insurers have adopted TCG Process DocProStar as a flexible Digital Assembly Line to efficiently deal with the demanding processing requirements of the insurance business.

California adopts AI-Based bushfire detection

California's Sonoma County has turned to South Korean visual recognition AI firm, Alchera Inc. to provide early warning alerts of pending “wildfire” events (commonly described in Australia as bushfires).  Alchera will offer consulting services to develop and deliver products utilizing state-of-the-art fire detection technologies based on machine learning with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The firm's visual anomaly detection solution can detect the start of a wildfire from a simple video.

Data risk management practices failing to keep up with the evolution of information sharing; Report

Veritas Technologies has published the results from new research, The Veritas Hidden Threat of Business Collaboration Report. This polled 12,500 office workers across ten countries and shows that employees are exposing companies to risk by taking data out of the control of businesses that employ them.

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