Industry Insider

  • Blockchain rules: regulating a game-changing new technology

    Blockchain - the technology powering Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies - is poised to transform the way we buy things, do business, and many other areas of everyday life. As banks and governments around the world grapple with how to harness this rising disruptive force, a team of legal and banking experts is taking the first step toward developing a framework for regulating them in New Zealand and Australia.

  • E-signatures to speed up SMSF advice

    Fintech start-up A.S.A.P. has launched a digital financial advice platform with an integrated e-signature solution provided by VASCO Data Security’s eSignLive. The first service of its kind in Australia, A.S.A.P. provides accountants and their clients with a digital, highly-efficient and cost-effective way to meet new financial services regulations.

  • Is Office 365 Alone Sufficient to Address Your eDiscovery Obligations?

    Office 365 is moving mainstream eDiscovery off-premises, making Microsoft compelling and convenient for many organizations. If you’re an IT, legal, compliance or HR professional and answered “yes” to the question posed above, it’s important to understand the strengths of Office 365 and why it may not work for every organization or every case.

  • What can businesses learn about financial documents from sending a birthday present?

    When sending an important parcel through a courier, you wouldn’t want it to get lost or end-up with the wrong individual. Think about the last time you’ve sent a birthday present through a courier. You’ve personalised the package, labelled it up with the right name and address details before handing it over to the delivery company, ensuring it’s fully traceable. Now imagine if you’re able to find out not only when it’s been delivered but the exact moment when they have opened their birthday present.

  • Knosys prosecutes KM in Victoria

    The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) has entered into an agreement with one of Knosys’ resellers for a 250-user deployment of the Knosys Knowledge Platform. 

  • SharePoint and the ever-changing ECM market

    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.

  • Technology Assisted Review Heating Up in Australia

    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.

  • Seven Deadly Sins of Changing Organisational Culture

    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.

  • Avoiding the SharePoint Potholes

    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.

  • Blockchain rules: regulating a game-changing new technology

    Blockchain - the technology powering Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies - is poised to transform the way we buy things, do business, and many other areas of everyday life. As banks and governments around the world grapple with how to harness this rising disruptive force, a team of legal and banking experts is taking the first step toward developing a framework for regulating them in New Zealand and Australia.

  • E-signatures to speed up SMSF advice

    Fintech start-up A.S.A.P. has launched a digital financial advice platform with an integrated e-signature solution provided by VASCO Data Security’s eSignLive. The first service of its kind in Australia, A.S.A.P. provides accountants and their clients with a digital, highly-efficient and cost-effective way to meet new financial services regulations.

  • Is Office 365 Alone Sufficient to Address Your eDiscovery Obligations?

    Office 365 is moving mainstream eDiscovery off-premises, making Microsoft compelling and convenient for many organizations. If you’re an IT, legal, compliance or HR professional and answered “yes” to the question posed above, it’s important to understand the strengths of Office 365 and why it may not work for every organization or every case.

  • What can businesses learn about financial documents from sending a birthday present?

    When sending an important parcel through a courier, you wouldn’t want it to get lost or end-up with the wrong individual. Think about the last time you’ve sent a birthday present through a courier. You’ve personalised the package, labelled it up with the right name and address details before handing it over to the delivery company, ensuring it’s fully traceable. Now imagine if you’re able to find out not only when it’s been delivered but the exact moment when they have opened their birthday present.

  • Knosys prosecutes KM in Victoria

    The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) has entered into an agreement with one of Knosys’ resellers for a 250-user deployment of the Knosys Knowledge Platform. 

  • SharePoint and the ever-changing ECM market

    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.

  • Technology Assisted Review Heating Up in Australia

    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.

  • Seven Deadly Sins of Changing Organisational Culture

    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.

  • Avoiding the SharePoint Potholes

    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.