Industry Insider

  • Records risk for NZ public sector

    New Zealand government agencies have been given a rap on the knuckles for poor record-keeping practices in the 2014-205 annual report from Archives New Zealand, which found that that important documents could be damaged, destroyed or inappropriately accessed as a result.

  • Paperless office remains a pipe dream for many

    More than 35 years have passed since British-American information scientist, Frederick Wilfrid, first envisioned a ‘paperless office’ in 1978. Today, the reality is that the physical page continues to be a central part of daily office life.

  • Where is the real value in Big Data?

    Taking a look at all the activity related to Big Data one should ask the question, how much of Big Data is actually useful. By applying just a little common sense we discover only a small amount.

  • The Challenge with Legacy ED(&)RM Solutions

    Let me start by saying that I'm not in the business of knocking solutions from any vendor within the Enterprise Information Management space. All commercial, off-the-shelf solutions have a place within the global market and all suit particular requirements and purposes. Within the EIM industry, we are experience quite a lot of change in the way that we are required to store and manage records effectively, how we respond to discovery requests and how we meet regulatory requirements placed on us by government, industry or other authorities.

  • Taxonomy Design Best Practices

    Over my years of taxonomy consulting I’ve often been asked to codify the best practices regarding taxonomy design. A simple search online shows that this is a common question, though one where a lot of the current answers appear outdated. Taxonomy design, as well as the information systems that leverage taxonomies and the business needs that drive them have evolved over the last several years.

  • WA Department of Commerce selects ELO EDRMS

    The Western Australian Department of Commerce (D0C) has selected ELO Digital Office to streamline the Department’s corporate records management cycle (Capture, Storage & Retrieval) and integration capabilities.

  • Mining the knowledge locked in ECM

    Recent announcements from Google and Microsoft regarding machine-learning capabilities will provide the ability to transform corporate Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system from a simple unstructured data repository into an oracle of corporate data.