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Many companies are working with SAP from dawn to dusk. With the right enterprise search solution, employees can have quick and easy access to all corporate-wide data lying dormant in other data sources centrally from SAP. What that has to do with the Weihenstephaner Korbinian Doppelbock beer brewed by the Bayerische Staatsbrauerei is the topic of this article.

Before the advent of powerful and more compact computers, information management in the health sector was localised and dependent on paper workflows.   As computer applications began to be developed to offset the use of paper, data repositories were created to contain patient information. They were in effect silos that had no means to communicate with each other or share information.  

We’ve known that InfoPath is on its way out for a while now. What hasn’t been clear is what its successor will be. Forms on SharePoint Lists looked to be a promising first-party alternative, but were cancelled, and Microsoft is still working on a new forms solution. This isn’t much use for users who want forms right now.

Canon Australia has acquired The New Zealand Post Group’s managed services and business process outsourcing company, Converga, for an undisclosed sum. Converga specialises in business process outsourcing with a focus on digital document solutions.

The bouncer who released footage from a Queenstown, New Zealand bar featuring English rugby player Mike Tindall, has had his conviction under the Crimes Act upheld by the Supreme Court. The court's decision is based on its finding that the digital file Mr Dixon removed from the bar constitutes property under the Crimes Act.

BIG DATA has been a public topic for quite some time now. However, data integrity and transparency are rarely touched. If your organisation runs an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) application, or your organisation is involved in the manufacture, integration, customization and services of ECM products and solutions, you should be aware of potential data integrity and data transparency issues that are revealed in this article.

A fruit seller at the local market had “Best Quality” red apples for sale on one side of her stand at $3.50 and others marked “Great value” for $2.50 on the other side. A friend asks her – what’s the difference between the apples. Her answer – just the price and what the buyer perceives… Sticker price is not always a good proxy for value. 

A major program is underway to digitise more than three million pages of paper records recording the history of more than 20 cemeteries dispersed across Melbourne stretching from Lilydale to Werribee. Created in March 2010 by amalgamating eight former cemetery trusts, the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) has begun the vast undertaking in tandem with a move to adopt the ELO electronic document and records management system.

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing Ram Kumar from IAG (Director of Enterprise Information Management) regarding Data Governance and its impact. As an Analytics and BI recruitment consultant I have noticed an increase in organisations who are realising the impact of data governance. However, there is also a lot of confusion as to what data governance actually entails from both organisations and specialists. With this in mind I thought I would find out from someone with far more experience than me.

The is no better measure of the growing prominence of the Chief Data Officer role than the emergence of business conferences dedicated to discussing its impact. At the 2015 CDO Forum in Melbourne, Katrina Read, Analytics Client Architect Leader for IBM Asia Pacific presented a session entitled: Chief Data Officer - The Next Corporate Rock Star. Intrigued by the possible conjunction of spandex, extended guitar solos and data analytics, IDM asked Katrina to expand on her thesis.