When SeeUnity began in 2005, we knew Microsoft SharePoint was going to be a large player in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market. What gave us insight to this was the ever-changing landscape of the ECM market.
Intelligent computers that look, think and react like humans are the latest technology being developed at the University of Auckland to become a commercial venture.
It’s been an exciting start to November and it seems that technology assisted review (TAR) has finally reached the tipping point here in my backyard. Following some recent changes to our federal procedure rules, we saw what I believe to be the first document order in Australia to explicitly specify TAR.
1. Sorcery - Leaders attempt to change culture with a single magical approach. Whether it is “Lean manufacturing”, “Results based decision making”, “Customer focus” or “Process re-engineering”, leaders attempt to find the silver bullet of changing their culture. Whilst methods of improving quality or focusing on customers or improving efficiency help to give a focus to why we want to change culture, they in themselves, do not change culture.
SharePoint is a word that often elicits a strong reaction; sometimes good and sometimes bad. For some, SharePoint is a solid information management platform that’s widely utilised by major companies around world. For others, SharePoint is a four-letter word, spoken with disdain and frustration.
A recent report by the United Kingdom’s police oversight body, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), highlights a key issue that law enforcement agencies across the globe are facing: there is an overwhelming amount of digital evidence piling up.
Employees at every level and across every industry are reminded regularly that information is vital to their business. In order to make the most of business information, easy access is critical. Whether it’s an email with the latest financial figures, a marketing strategy PDF, a print out of a CV including hand-written notes or a customer contact list, having the information readily to hand enables businesses to serve their customers and employees.
Biometrics use is moving front and centre stage in driving trends in mobile consumer retail behaviour, according to Stuart Johnston, Partner and the leader of Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) group, with one in three smartphone having a fingerprint scanner on their smartphone, and of these almost 70% use this capability regularly.
Organisations will need to prepare now to exploit the enhanced workflow capabilities of PDF 2.0, the first major overhaul of the venerable Portable Document Format (PDF) standard, which is due out in early 2017.
