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  • Can FOI access Turnbull’s private email?

    Is private email used by government ministers or prime ministers accessible to freedom of Information (FOI) requests? Malcolm Turnbull’s office is only certain that this may "potentially" be the case. Experts are even less sure.

  • A new way to deliver records management

    The aim of records management is simple: keep what you need and discard what you don’t. When this aim is achieved, organizations are less exposed to risk. The question is, how can we achieve this simple goal?

  • The role Big Data, Ontology and Semantic Search will play to improve Healthcare

    Is there any domain that has a broader mix of terminologies that need to be comprehended, or a greater need for system integration? Over the years doctors developed their own specialised languages and lexicons to help them store and communicate general medical knowledge and patient-related information efficiently. The promise of a global standard for Electronic Health Care Records is still years away.

  • Are SharePoint BLOBs dragging you down?

    I might be a little old fashioned, but I came up through an Electronic Content Management (ECM) and Transaction Content Management (TCM) community where you never put BLOBs directly in your database. By BLOBs, I am referring to Binary Large Objects (not the 1988 thriller movie) which are chunks of images or other large data stored as a single object. I was taught that the database should hold pointers to BLOB content stored on another inexpensive storage system like SAN or NAS drives. However, when I entered the world of SharePoint, I realised that everyone was storing BLOBs in their databases.

  • Does this data have business value? I don’t care!

    Anyone who's had the responsibility to manage an end-user centred system has heard this refrain when asking people to get rid of old emails, documents, files, voice mail recordings, pictures, or any other electronically stored information (ESI). "I need it to do my job" or "It has business value and I need to save it".

  • Macedon Ranges takes the integration path for EDRMS

    Macedon Ranges Shire Council is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 1,747 square kilometres and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 41,860.  It is home to distinctive mountain range of the same name, and the iconic Hanging Rock.  The region is popular with both domestic and international visitors, due to its natural attractions, wineries, and its proximity and accessibility to the Melbourne metropolitan area.

  • Texthelp embraces ABBYY’s Cloud OCR

    Texthelp, a provider of software for the education sector, has incorporated ABBYY’s Cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter app for Google Apps for Education users.

  • IBM expands power of Watson Analytics

    IBM has introduced new data discovery and question-and-answer capabilities for Watson Analytics that promises to make it easier for users to extract insights from their data. IBM also announced widespread adoption, with half a million professionals registering for the Watson data exploration and visualization service since its introduction less than a year ago.

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  • Can FOI access Turnbull’s private email?

    Is private email used by government ministers or prime ministers accessible to freedom of Information (FOI) requests? Malcolm Turnbull’s office is only certain that this may "potentially" be the case. Experts are even less sure.

  • A new way to deliver records management

    The aim of records management is simple: keep what you need and discard what you don’t. When this aim is achieved, organizations are less exposed to risk. The question is, how can we achieve this simple goal?

  • The role Big Data, Ontology and Semantic Search will play to improve Healthcare

    Is there any domain that has a broader mix of terminologies that need to be comprehended, or a greater need for system integration? Over the years doctors developed their own specialised languages and lexicons to help them store and communicate general medical knowledge and patient-related information efficiently. The promise of a global standard for Electronic Health Care Records is still years away.

  • Are SharePoint BLOBs dragging you down?

    I might be a little old fashioned, but I came up through an Electronic Content Management (ECM) and Transaction Content Management (TCM) community where you never put BLOBs directly in your database. By BLOBs, I am referring to Binary Large Objects (not the 1988 thriller movie) which are chunks of images or other large data stored as a single object. I was taught that the database should hold pointers to BLOB content stored on another inexpensive storage system like SAN or NAS drives. However, when I entered the world of SharePoint, I realised that everyone was storing BLOBs in their databases.

  • Does this data have business value? I don’t care!

    Anyone who's had the responsibility to manage an end-user centred system has heard this refrain when asking people to get rid of old emails, documents, files, voice mail recordings, pictures, or any other electronically stored information (ESI). "I need it to do my job" or "It has business value and I need to save it".

  • Macedon Ranges takes the integration path for EDRMS

    Macedon Ranges Shire Council is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 1,747 square kilometres and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 41,860.  It is home to distinctive mountain range of the same name, and the iconic Hanging Rock.  The region is popular with both domestic and international visitors, due to its natural attractions, wineries, and its proximity and accessibility to the Melbourne metropolitan area.

  • Texthelp embraces ABBYY’s Cloud OCR

    Texthelp, a provider of software for the education sector, has incorporated ABBYY’s Cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter app for Google Apps for Education users.

  • IBM expands power of Watson Analytics

    IBM has introduced new data discovery and question-and-answer capabilities for Watson Analytics that promises to make it easier for users to extract insights from their data. IBM also announced widespread adoption, with half a million professionals registering for the Watson data exploration and visualization service since its introduction less than a year ago.

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