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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.

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. 

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. 

The Family Court of Australia has taken its next step towards an electronic court file, adding a new capacity for e-lodgement from November 1. 

Information is the economic resource of the 21st century says David Fricker, who has taken up his role as President of the International Council on Archives (ICA) in Paris.

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

Brisbane-based information management consultancy Glentworth has appointed Renee Pera as Director of Enterprise Information Management.

Dave Hawking is one of Australia's leading Information Retrieval researchers, now working to advance the tecnology behind Bing, Microsoft's search engine. Simon Kravis sat down with Dave to find out more about his work with Microsoft and the challenges for Enterprise Search.

The quest to automate manual processes to improve organisational efficiency at the University of Queensland is one step further along the road with the implementation of an EzeScan solution to register student email into its HP TRIM EDRMS.

The risks to Australian organisations associated with the management of information have been widely discussed amongst business leaders and in the media since changes to The Privacy Act 1998 (Privacy Act) took effect on the 12 March 2014. From our perspective, what has not been discussed is personal liability which relates to employees with a responsibility for the management of organisational information.