Industry Insider

  • ME Bank appoints new GM Data

    Industry super fund-owned bank ME has appointed former ANZ Head of Enterprise Information Architecture, Annie South, as ME’s GM Data − a new role responsible for extending the strategic value of data for the Bank.

  • 7 Benefits of a Paperless (aka ECM) Solution

    We know that every organization has its own unique set of business challenges. Whether you’re a manufacturing company producing auto parts or a pharmaceutical company producing heart medication, you both deal with paper. And, in most cases, too much of it.

  • Yale University Library Keeping Over 300 Years of History Alive with Preservica

    The Yale University Library, which recently celebrated its 314th anniversary, is collaborating with Preservica to preserve nearly one petabyte (PB) of digital content. The Yale Library comprises 15 libraries and houses more than 15 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases.

  • Archiving risks associated with tape storage

    For many years, one of the most common backup practices for businesses has been the use of tape archives. As a tried and tested storage solution, it’s still a familiar sight in many firms, even if it looks a little outdated when compared with more modern alternatives such as cloud backups.

  • Prevent data leak mistakes with OCR

    With almost half of data leaks now coming from accidental exposure by employees rather than outside hacks, ABBYY has moved to plug a gap in traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with a newly released integration with Symantec’s DLP solution. Symantec DLP can now incorporate ABBYY’s Recognition Server OCR technology to recognise text in scanned images and screenshots

  • Is it time for NoSQL?

    With the rise of NoSQL data stores and their overwhelming popularity, the traditional databases started to lose the sheen. It is every IT decision-makers question of the hour - is it really the time for NoSQL?

  • Managing Information: The Knowledge Deficit

    Over the last few years I’ve been involved in several Electronic Documents and Records Management System (EDRMS) implementations. I’ve also been involved in a number of Information Technology (IT) implementations which, to all intents and purposes, were about the management of information.

  • Avoiding the Data Swamp: How do we govern big data?

    Have you encountered problems governing new types of data? When talking about new kinds of data I would suggest that most readers will think primarily of big data, both structured but particularly in this case unstructured.

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  • ME Bank appoints new GM Data

    Industry super fund-owned bank ME has appointed former ANZ Head of Enterprise Information Architecture, Annie South, as ME’s GM Data − a new role responsible for extending the strategic value of data for the Bank.

  • 7 Benefits of a Paperless (aka ECM) Solution

    We know that every organization has its own unique set of business challenges. Whether you’re a manufacturing company producing auto parts or a pharmaceutical company producing heart medication, you both deal with paper. And, in most cases, too much of it.

  • Yale University Library Keeping Over 300 Years of History Alive with Preservica

    The Yale University Library, which recently celebrated its 314th anniversary, is collaborating with Preservica to preserve nearly one petabyte (PB) of digital content. The Yale Library comprises 15 libraries and houses more than 15 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases.

  • Archiving risks associated with tape storage

    For many years, one of the most common backup practices for businesses has been the use of tape archives. As a tried and tested storage solution, it’s still a familiar sight in many firms, even if it looks a little outdated when compared with more modern alternatives such as cloud backups.

  • Prevent data leak mistakes with OCR

    With almost half of data leaks now coming from accidental exposure by employees rather than outside hacks, ABBYY has moved to plug a gap in traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with a newly released integration with Symantec’s DLP solution. Symantec DLP can now incorporate ABBYY’s Recognition Server OCR technology to recognise text in scanned images and screenshots

  • Is it time for NoSQL?

    With the rise of NoSQL data stores and their overwhelming popularity, the traditional databases started to lose the sheen. It is every IT decision-makers question of the hour - is it really the time for NoSQL?

  • Managing Information: The Knowledge Deficit

    Over the last few years I’ve been involved in several Electronic Documents and Records Management System (EDRMS) implementations. I’ve also been involved in a number of Information Technology (IT) implementations which, to all intents and purposes, were about the management of information.

  • Avoiding the Data Swamp: How do we govern big data?

    Have you encountered problems governing new types of data? When talking about new kinds of data I would suggest that most readers will think primarily of big data, both structured but particularly in this case unstructured.

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