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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

The Wall Street Journal has reported that despite an outlay of $US1 billion and a decade long effort to digitise 100 paper based forms used to process applications to immigrate to the US, only one has successfully been implemented.

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?

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.

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.

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.