Industry Insider

  • The privacy trap: Privacy obligations owed to employees

    When handling personal information about employees, Australian private sector employers haven’t had to concern themselves too much with obligations imposed by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) because of the application of the ‘employee records exemption’.

  • Global RFID growth surge predicted

    According to a study released by market research firm Technavio, the global RFID readers market is expected to reach $US7 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of almost 21% during the forecast period. The retail sector was the major revenue contributor to the global RFID readers market, accounting for 55% of the total revenue in 2015.

  • The difference between truth and ediscovery

    Startups are addictive. When you set a milestone and then meet it, it's like a rush of adrenaline. I'm on my third startup, a company focused on enterprise-class content indexing, and I still remember clearly the excitement I felt years ago when we first started receiving an influx of calls from law firms after announcing our ability to directly index backup tapes.

  • Governance gap revealed in industry survey

    A survey of senior IT executives at 481 organizations in the US and UK on topics related to information governance has found that while almost all have a formal information governance program currently in place or are in the planning stages, only 40% of organizations are “high performers”.

  • WA aims to get emergency patients seen faster with new app

    The Government of Western Australia has launched a new WA Emergency Waiting Times app, designed by local technology services house Readify, which will help Perth residents quickly and easily choose which hospital to go to in an emergency.

  • Objective signs $A10M Defence ECM contract

    Objective Corporation has been awarded a new contract with IBM to deliver a key component of the Australian Department of Defence's End User Compute (EUC) Program. The EUC Program is one of several initiatives designed to establish a dependable, secure and integrated Single Information Environment (SIE) to support Defence business and military operations

  • Crimefighters seek a digital advantage

    As an Australian police officer prepares to encounter a suspected terrorist or criminal gang member, arrayed on his or her iPad mini screen are the up to the minute results of a comprehensive search of more than 1000 federal, state and territory police databases detailing all essential facts about the individual. This may not be the case today, but is the future aim of a major IT collaboration and consolidation program underway at the Australian Crime Commission (ACC). IDM spoke with Chief Information Officer Narelle Lovett to learn more about the quest.