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New research has revealed that the majority of organizations do not have a coherent long-term strategy for their vital digital information even though virtually all of them (98%) are required to keep information for 10 years or longer. Further, while 97% of information professionals understand the need for a specialised approach to these assets, only 11% are storing them in systems specifically designed to ensure long-term protection and access. This gap has economic, legal, and business competitiveness implications.

More than a year ago we announced the European grant we had received for a development and research project to improve OCR on historical documents. The goal of this project is to use an unsupervised learning and clustering algorithm to improve OCR on a specific page.

Healthworld, a leading supplier of Natural Medicines in Australia and New Zealand, began looking in 2015 for a scanning solution to scan documents and integrate with SharePoint.

For a great many organizations email is the part of the information resource that is in greatest need of improved management.  Emails can be an important part of the documentation trail for transactions, yet are often ‘managed’ by having users save them in private folders within their Outlook mailboxes.

While a lot of speculation remains around Dell's proposed $US60 billion-plus acquisition of EMC, which could close any time in the next few months, the company’s Enterprise Content Division is bringing its key executives to Sydney on June 9 for a full day seminar on the future landscape of content management in the digital era.

For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated reliably storing 3 bits of data per cell using a relatively new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM).

For government CIOs, establishing an e-government model is just the first step on a journey to becoming a mature digital services organisation.

Listed New Zealand document management, and data technology provider, the G3 Group, has reported a profit increase of 12% on the previous year after acquiring Melbourne based firm Formfile earlier in the year.

Experts have been nagging information and records managers for years that preparing for electronic discovery in the ordinary course of business is critical. The links between the two disciplines has been underlined with the announcement that Open Text has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Recommind, a leading provider of ediscovery, and information analytics.

A report by the US State Department Inspector General criticises US presidential contender Hillary Clinton for ignoring official guidelines in using a personal email server for official communications.