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  • Rio Tinto mines dark data

    Mining giant Rio Tinto has signed a global agreement with Active Navigation to analyse and support the management of its unstructured data.  Rio Tinto is using Active Navigation to remediate over a petabyte of unstructured content (over a billion files) that’s spread out over five continents.

  • Tracking the health of your Accounts Payable process

    Digitalised business processes provide the perfect conditions for on-going tracking and measurement of the ‘health’ of the processes. What are the KPIs that can be used to track the health of your AP processes and the benefits you can achieve?

  • New IIM National President

    After six years Vladimir Videnovic has stepped down as National President of  The Institute for Information Management (IIM). The new National President is Dr Janine Douglas, a consultant who is currently President of the Western Australian Branch of IIM, and has served on the IIM Board as a Regional Director for two years.

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific adopts HP WorkSite

    The Life Technologies Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific has adopted HP WorkSite for legal document management worldwide. With a recently consolidated legal department, Life Technologies required a single document management system (DMS) to provide automated document management operations and integration with existing applications.

  • Queensland seeks a digital record-keeping fix

    Queensland State Archives has issued a discussion paper that draws attention to “A critical disconnect [that] has emerged between government’s move towards digital service delivery, while still relying on outdated records management processes.” Developed in collaboration with the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, the Born digital, stay digital discussion paper has been accompanied by a request for state agencies to respond to a plan to “Develop a roadmap with set timeframes for public authorities to work toward.” No timetable has been announced.

  • Microsoft acquires mobile email startup

    Microsoft has acquired Acompli, a developer working on bringing the functionality of Outlook on the desktop PC to mobiles. Acompli reportedly makes it easier to deal with email attachments on your phone, and also puts contacts and calendar into the same app, and handles attachments from Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive.

  • Funding boost to quicken PCEHR Private Hospital uptake

    The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) is offer funding from a pool of up to $500,000 (ex GST) to Australian private hospital groups to begin integrating their systems with the Personally Controlled Electronic Health record (PCEHR). 

  • Australian businesses lose over $US55B from data loss annually

    EMC Corporation has announced the Australian findings of a new global data protection study that reveals, data loss and downtime cost Australian enterprises US$55 billion in the last twelve months, compared to the average of US$34 billion across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. Global data loss is up by 400% since 2012 while, surprisingly, 78% of Australian organisations are still not fully confident in their ability to recover after a disruption.  

  • Chemists fabricate Rewritable Paper

    Despite society’s move toward a fully digital world, a good deal of business is still transacted on paper. In some estimates, it’s as high as 90 percent, with a great deal of printed paper discarded after just one-time use. That waste comes at a cost, not only for the paper but also for the ink.

  • Five ways social collaboration benefits organisations

    Organisations that are not yet using enterprise social are missing out on valuable opportunities to increase productivity and effectiveness as well as improve organisational culture. Enterprise social uses social media and communication technologies, such as chat and mobile tools, to provide a framework for collaborative working. 

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  • Rio Tinto mines dark data

    Mining giant Rio Tinto has signed a global agreement with Active Navigation to analyse and support the management of its unstructured data.  Rio Tinto is using Active Navigation to remediate over a petabyte of unstructured content (over a billion files) that’s spread out over five continents.

  • Tracking the health of your Accounts Payable process

    Digitalised business processes provide the perfect conditions for on-going tracking and measurement of the ‘health’ of the processes. What are the KPIs that can be used to track the health of your AP processes and the benefits you can achieve?

  • New IIM National President

    After six years Vladimir Videnovic has stepped down as National President of  The Institute for Information Management (IIM). The new National President is Dr Janine Douglas, a consultant who is currently President of the Western Australian Branch of IIM, and has served on the IIM Board as a Regional Director for two years.

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific adopts HP WorkSite

    The Life Technologies Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific has adopted HP WorkSite for legal document management worldwide. With a recently consolidated legal department, Life Technologies required a single document management system (DMS) to provide automated document management operations and integration with existing applications.

  • Queensland seeks a digital record-keeping fix

    Queensland State Archives has issued a discussion paper that draws attention to “A critical disconnect [that] has emerged between government’s move towards digital service delivery, while still relying on outdated records management processes.” Developed in collaboration with the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, the Born digital, stay digital discussion paper has been accompanied by a request for state agencies to respond to a plan to “Develop a roadmap with set timeframes for public authorities to work toward.” No timetable has been announced.

  • Microsoft acquires mobile email startup

    Microsoft has acquired Acompli, a developer working on bringing the functionality of Outlook on the desktop PC to mobiles. Acompli reportedly makes it easier to deal with email attachments on your phone, and also puts contacts and calendar into the same app, and handles attachments from Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive.

  • Funding boost to quicken PCEHR Private Hospital uptake

    The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) is offer funding from a pool of up to $500,000 (ex GST) to Australian private hospital groups to begin integrating their systems with the Personally Controlled Electronic Health record (PCEHR). 

  • Australian businesses lose over $US55B from data loss annually

    EMC Corporation has announced the Australian findings of a new global data protection study that reveals, data loss and downtime cost Australian enterprises US$55 billion in the last twelve months, compared to the average of US$34 billion across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. Global data loss is up by 400% since 2012 while, surprisingly, 78% of Australian organisations are still not fully confident in their ability to recover after a disruption.  

  • Chemists fabricate Rewritable Paper

    Despite society’s move toward a fully digital world, a good deal of business is still transacted on paper. In some estimates, it’s as high as 90 percent, with a great deal of printed paper discarded after just one-time use. That waste comes at a cost, not only for the paper but also for the ink.

  • Five ways social collaboration benefits organisations

    Organisations that are not yet using enterprise social are missing out on valuable opportunities to increase productivity and effectiveness as well as improve organisational culture. Enterprise social uses social media and communication technologies, such as chat and mobile tools, to provide a framework for collaborative working. 

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