Today’s technologically hungry society is known to adopt new tech more quickly than ever before. Despite this, many large organisations have been relatively reluctant to adopt policies allowing for contracts to be signed electronically.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is calling for a moratorium on changes that will penalise general practices thousands of dollars if they do not upload patient health summaries to the My Health Record system, with less than a quarter of practices indicating they will be able to comply with new rules introduced earlier this year to the Practice Incentives Program (PIP).
According to a new market research report, the global text analytics market has a potential to reach $US6.5 billion by 2020, with predictive analytics providing insights on unstructured text as the major driver.
Addressing a recent user forum hosted in Melbourne by reseller and solution provider Kapish, HPE’s David Gould, WW Director, Software, Information Governance Solutions, outlined the upcoming name change for TRIM/RM, as well as a new features of the V9.0 release. Afterwards, IDM’s Bill Dawes spoke with David about the product’s future roadmap.
TRIM 9.0 has arrived a with a bang, and a new name! HPE Content Manager is the official moniker for the newest version of the venerable record-keeping software. HPE is emphasising the governance smarts of the new enterprise content management (ECM) platform which builds on a base that has delivered more than 1800 customer accounts and 1.5 million users across the globe (see IDM’s interview with David Gould, HPE’s WW Director, Software, Information Governance Solutions HERE).
We are in the era of cloud computing, where the terabyte (TB) is gradually replacing the gigabyte (GB) as the standard data storage unit. Cloud technology is bringing big data into every part of our lives - from entertainment to corporate infrastructure, from evidence collection to discovery production. Naturally, this increase in digital footprints is causing the difficulty and costs of the e-discovery process to expand.
As data itself has become currency, the metadata describing it has also emerged as a core asset of modern business. Metadata interweaves itself throughout all information; like DNA, it serves as the genetic makeup of data. So even though metadata may not be the most obvious data created, it holds tremendous value in unlocking and exploiting the value of enterprise information.
The term ECM is actually an abstract and entirely unhelpful label when attributed to data systems – attempting to describe a world that is rich with tools, methods and consultants, yet equally endowed with resistance, frustration and cost.
A fully-automatic A2 book scanner from Austria’s Qidenus Technologies has found a home in Australia at the National Library in Canberra, supplied by Digital Scanning & Microfilm Equipment (DS&ME) in conjunction with reseller Micrographic Engineering Services (MES).
