At this year’s InsideNGO conference (annual event for the international relief and development NGO community), Deby MacLeod, Audit and Assurance Principal at accounting firm Clark Nuber PS, recently shared her perspective on how a document management system can simplify the audit process for both parties. She discussed 4 key areas of audit focus along with controls you can put in place that will help you pass with flying colours.
ABBYY has announced its role in helping Rhenus Assets & Services – the Shared Services Centre of the global logistics company – to process up to 1.8 million documents annually in the form of incoming invoices, delivery notes, and many other paper documents. Following central processing and classification of the documents, data from incoming invoices are read according to business rules and then passed to the workflow-based approval process in SAP.
A new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit has found that while a majority of companies have yet to implement their digital transformation initiatives, most expect their operations to be 80 percent digital or more in the next five years.
Are you clear on the difference between Native and Tiff Production in ediscovery? Or how about a Native File versus NSF file? A new Production Glossary of technology terms used in the practise of eDiscovery has been released for public comment by the Legal Technology Professionals Institute (LTPI), a US legal tech industry association.
Following the revelations of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account in March this year, IDM contact a number of Australian and New Zealand government ministers to ask if they had similar habits. Many confirmed their strict use of government email services for official government business. Significantly, in light of revelations this week, then Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull was one who failed to respond.
The Victorian Auditor-General has found that state agencies are under increasing risk from using IT systems that are past or approaching their end-of-life.
Macquarie University is migrating staff email away from Gmail to Office 365, due to concerns about data sovereignty. The university plans for all staff email and calendars to be migrated to Office 365 by the end of this year.
My response to the question, “what do you do for a living”? can vary depending on how much patience the person I am talking to appears to have, from ”I work in IT”, ”I build intranets of a sort” to the outright, ”I am a SharePoint Specialist.” I am normally then presented with one of two responses:
A move to the Amazon cloud for data backups is paying dividends for PFD Food Services, Australia’s largest privately owned fresh and frozen food distributor with $A1.5 billion turnover, 2,200 staff and over 65 sites across Australia.
The problem with searching for a needle in a haystack is that the process, by nature, is inefficient. So why has it become a popular analogy for analytics efforts within the enterprise? Because today’s analytics attempts – particularly for unstructured human data – are typically a mess.
