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  • Information Leadership wins NZ local government award

    New Zealand information and knowledge management solution provider Information Leadership was awarded ICT Vendor of the Year at the recent Annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Awards. The company was nominated by the Upper Hutt City Council which has recently implemented an electronic document and records management system and intranet SharePoint solution.

  • You want me to OCR that!

    Thinking about OCR technology to help you extract data from paper or pdf documents? There are a number of things to keep in mind when you begin your evaluation of this technology. This discussion is more related to advanced data capture requirements and to give you some high level information and thought direction.

  • 10 Things to Consider When Automating Your AP Department

    The internal discussion happens every year, doesn’t it? “We don’t have the budget … We don’t have the resources at this time … We have another project that is taking priority … Let’s consider AP Imaging and Workflow Automation next year …” Automating your AP department may feel like a daunting undertaking, but can you really afford NOT to do it?

  • Cloudy future for ECM in 2016

    With the New Year nearly upon us, it’s no surprise that companies have begun releasing predictions for the technology industry in 2016. Independent technology analyst firm Ovum has joined in with its prediction that says the enterprise content management (ECM) space has entered a new period of rapid evolution. In its 2016 Trends to Watch report on Enterprise Content Management, Ovum outlines the major factors it expects will shape the ECM market in the coming year. These factors include content analytics, the security of content and increased concern over compliance and governance risks.

  • The biggest mistakes in sharing knowledge ... and how to avoid them

    Before anything else, make sure you instil the following message into your company's culture and never, ever forget it: The purpose of documentation is to transfer the right information to the right people at the right time. Anything that interferes with this objective is at best a waste of time, at worst downright dangerous.

  • Records Management & Big Data

    Working across a number of industries over the last few years it always surprised me that Big Data projects either struggle with meeting records management requirements or ignore them altogether.  My surprise comes from the fact that not only is Records Management a compliance practice, but it is one that can literally pay for itself.

  • ECM Doesn’t Always Have To Be Code...

    Disclaimer: I am a GUI guy by trade.  I’ve worked in user interfaces since I was 6.  Yes, I wrote code in BASIC back in junior high, but it was never “fun”.  I like to just fire the thing up, look at it, tweak it, and run it.  Code has to be remembered, researched, and formatted.  It’s picky.  It doesn’t like to be “just written”.  Brackets have to be flawless.  Case matters.  So many things to think about.

  • The Rise of the Algos

    As the world moves towards the big data era, society will undergo a major shift. Big data is already transforming many aspects of our life and forcing us to reconsider basic principles, as we evaluate how to best utilise big data while preventing potential harm. Simple changes to existing rules will not be sufficient to temper big data’s dark side.

  • Dealing with the documentation disaster

    Most documentation goes unread, for good reason: most documentation isn’t worth reading. It is rare to find an organisation where the documentation isn’t a shambles. Most often, you find a mess of documents that are badly written, incompetently edited, at least partly out-of-date, inconsistent, and boring.

  • SharePoint Governance is Data Governance

    Each platform and vertical industry “hires its own.” SAP teams want SAP people. Healthcare teams want healthcare experts. Salesforce teams look for SalesForce developers. Banks look for financial services people. It's the way of the workplace. SharePoint is no exception. Being a “SharePoint person” conveys membership in a deep-dive community of technical expertise that speaks its own language, from farms and site collections to Designer workflows and PowerShell scripts.

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  • Information Leadership wins NZ local government award

    New Zealand information and knowledge management solution provider Information Leadership was awarded ICT Vendor of the Year at the recent Annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Awards. The company was nominated by the Upper Hutt City Council which has recently implemented an electronic document and records management system and intranet SharePoint solution.

  • You want me to OCR that!

    Thinking about OCR technology to help you extract data from paper or pdf documents? There are a number of things to keep in mind when you begin your evaluation of this technology. This discussion is more related to advanced data capture requirements and to give you some high level information and thought direction.

  • 10 Things to Consider When Automating Your AP Department

    The internal discussion happens every year, doesn’t it? “We don’t have the budget … We don’t have the resources at this time … We have another project that is taking priority … Let’s consider AP Imaging and Workflow Automation next year …” Automating your AP department may feel like a daunting undertaking, but can you really afford NOT to do it?

  • Cloudy future for ECM in 2016

    With the New Year nearly upon us, it’s no surprise that companies have begun releasing predictions for the technology industry in 2016. Independent technology analyst firm Ovum has joined in with its prediction that says the enterprise content management (ECM) space has entered a new period of rapid evolution. In its 2016 Trends to Watch report on Enterprise Content Management, Ovum outlines the major factors it expects will shape the ECM market in the coming year. These factors include content analytics, the security of content and increased concern over compliance and governance risks.

  • The biggest mistakes in sharing knowledge ... and how to avoid them

    Before anything else, make sure you instil the following message into your company's culture and never, ever forget it: The purpose of documentation is to transfer the right information to the right people at the right time. Anything that interferes with this objective is at best a waste of time, at worst downright dangerous.

  • Records Management & Big Data

    Working across a number of industries over the last few years it always surprised me that Big Data projects either struggle with meeting records management requirements or ignore them altogether.  My surprise comes from the fact that not only is Records Management a compliance practice, but it is one that can literally pay for itself.

  • ECM Doesn’t Always Have To Be Code...

    Disclaimer: I am a GUI guy by trade.  I’ve worked in user interfaces since I was 6.  Yes, I wrote code in BASIC back in junior high, but it was never “fun”.  I like to just fire the thing up, look at it, tweak it, and run it.  Code has to be remembered, researched, and formatted.  It’s picky.  It doesn’t like to be “just written”.  Brackets have to be flawless.  Case matters.  So many things to think about.

  • The Rise of the Algos

    As the world moves towards the big data era, society will undergo a major shift. Big data is already transforming many aspects of our life and forcing us to reconsider basic principles, as we evaluate how to best utilise big data while preventing potential harm. Simple changes to existing rules will not be sufficient to temper big data’s dark side.

  • Dealing with the documentation disaster

    Most documentation goes unread, for good reason: most documentation isn’t worth reading. It is rare to find an organisation where the documentation isn’t a shambles. Most often, you find a mess of documents that are badly written, incompetently edited, at least partly out-of-date, inconsistent, and boring.

  • SharePoint Governance is Data Governance

    Each platform and vertical industry “hires its own.” SAP teams want SAP people. Healthcare teams want healthcare experts. Salesforce teams look for SalesForce developers. Banks look for financial services people. It's the way of the workplace. SharePoint is no exception. Being a “SharePoint person” conveys membership in a deep-dive community of technical expertise that speaks its own language, from farms and site collections to Designer workflows and PowerShell scripts.

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