Industry Insider

  • Empired to acquire Intergen Ltd for $A17.4M

    Australian listed IT services company Empired has acquired IT services provider Intergen for $A17.4 million due to be paid over a three year period with $A5m paid on completion through a combination of cash and shares. 

  • Cooper Grace Ward moves to NetDocuments

    Australian law firm, Cooper Grace Ward, has switched their document and email management from iManage to the NetDocuments cloud-based document management and collaboration platform.

  • Acaveo vs Varonis for unstructured data

    We’ve been asked several times in recent weeks about the Acaveo vs Varonis comparison.  The question is best answered at a high-level since the two companies’ solutions are more adjacent, rather than competitive, to each other.

  • Auckland uses big data analytics to improve safety

    The city of Auckland is deploying video analytics to help provide a safe community and more efficient roadways for its residents. Auckland Transport, the government agency responsible for the transportation infrastructure and services, has chosen the HP IDOL information analytics platform to power an innovative big data project.

  • Increasing invoice volume challenges Accounts Payable departments: IFO

    Accounts payable operations are seeing their invoice volumes increase, signalling improvements in revenue, but they’re not celebrating just yet. That’s because they’re bogged down in manual, paper-based processes instead of taking full advantage of automation. Those are among the findings of the 2014 AP Automation Study by The Institute of Financial Operations, which surveys accounts payable professionals internationally every year about the use of the latest forms of technology. 

  • IBM announces first commercial application of Watson in Africa

    Metropolitan Health, the largest medical schemes administrator in South Africa, has announced the first commercial application in Africa of IBM's Watson, the computing platform made famous by competing and winning against human contestants on the game show Jeopardy. 

  • Splitsville for HP and Symantec

    Tech giants HP and Symantec have each announced plans to carve themselves in two to provide a better focus on the information management market.