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As per usual inspiration struck me while biking through my neighbourhood one weekend. Before you assume incorrectly I am not an avid cyclist, nor an athlete of any note. It is a form of masochistic torture I endure to avoid feeling my actual age while making myself feel way beyond my actual age.

If your most valuable team member resigned tomorrow, would you know where to find the reports, project updates or files your colleague had been working on? If you’ve ever tried to retrieve a document that has been saved to someone else’s desktop, or buried in an electronic system only the owner understands, you’ll know how time consuming this can be. An effective intranet can save you time, money and administrative headaches by ensuring that your corporate information is easily retrievable and useful.

The cloud email market is still in the early stages of adoption with 13 percent of identified publicly listed companies globally using one of the two main cloud email vendors, according to Gartner, Inc.

Marc Kerremans, Gartner research director, shares his insights into some of the challenges that business process leaders are facing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.