Industry Insider

Aconex, provider of the cloud collaboration platform for the global construction industry, has launched Aconex Connected BIM. This new product extends the Aconex platform to manage building information modeling (BIM) data and processes for project-wide collaboration between design and construction teams and handover to the owner.

Red Earth Software has released Policy Patrol version 10, the latest version of its email security software for Microsoft Exchange Server. Policy Patrol 10 offers increased protection from email security risks with improved anti-phishing and integrated multi anti-malware scanning, along with an improved user interface and new dashboard.

On 22nd October an amendment of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Bill was introduced by Pru Goward (Minister for Planning) to the NSW Parliament. The Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 facilitates the introduction of ePlanning for NSW via an online planning portal

The inability of the WA State Records Office to accept physical or digital records from government agencies has been highlighted as a cause for concern in the 2013/2014 Annual Report for the WA State Records Commission

Objective founder and CEO Tony Walls says his newly revitalised relationship with Microsoft reaffirms his long felt “calmness around SharePoint” as a market disrupting force. 

A new speaker add to the conference program at the IIM 2014 National Conference being held from 27-28 October at the University of Canberra will explore the murky world of money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF).  

Ponemon Institute, an organization that conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, released a report entitled “2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime” sponsored by HP Enterprise Security. The data put forth in the report is based on 257 representative sample organizations operating in various industries and sectors of seven countries, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, and for the first time, the Russian Federation.

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. 

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.

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.