Recordkeeping is the process of making and maintaining complete, accurate and reliable evidence of business transactions, and government records are crucial to individuals seeking to establish their identities or ensure their entitlements to basic human rights. With their enormous capacity to store information quickly and cheaply over a timescale of years, the computerisation of the workplace should have made the task of recordkeeping within organisations easier. In fact, standards of recordkeeping in many organisations have declined over the 25 or so years since computers became common in the workplace.
In organisations where the IT Department equates success for new ways of working with installing the software correctly, all the great stuff doesn't happen. Employees ignore the new capabilities and keep using current tools to get their work done in historical ways. Or they make a minimal effort to comply with the IT mandate to "use SharePoint," but do so only for the most mundane of work processes. Although the organization has at its disposal new capabilities that offer transformative possibilities, they are relegated to insignificance through lack of imagination.
Upwards of 1200 websites published by Australian Commonwealth Government agencies could be heading down the road of a Drupal-based shared Web platform beginning in September 2014, according to a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Government Content Management System – with the working title of GovCMS.
Lexmark International, has announced that it has made a $US182 million cash offer for Sweden-based ReadSoft, and the offer has been unanimously recommended by ReadSoft's Board of Directors.
According to a study of 314 companies spanning 10 countries, the average total cost of a data breach increased 15 percent in the last year to $US3.5 million. The Ponemon Institute annual Cost of Data Breach Study, sponsored by IBM, also found that the cost incurred for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information increased more than nine percent to $US145.
Information Management and Governance (IMG) specialist, iCognition, has won a contract to deploy HP’s key information analysis and legacy data clean-up software, HP ControlPoint, at NSW’s Port Stephens Council.
At the 5th Annual Australian SharePoint Conference, oil and gas producer Santos will outline a solution it has implemented to automate the tagging of documents held in SharePoint through integration with an Oracle Spatial Geographic Information System (GIS).
Last Christmas and New Year the ideal present, for a girl of a certain age, from Japan to the UK was the neurowear clip-on of floppy ears driven by brain waves to reflect your mood. They would have been played with for one day and then put away forever. Such novelty peaks can be expected with many forms of wearable technology as it enters its manic phase with hugely overpriced acquisitions. Facebook is buying tiny Oculus VR, a Californian company which specialises in virtual reality headware, for around $2 billion. Is it worth that much?
AP Smart has been chosen to streamline the purchase requisition, procurement and Accounts Payable processes at Fugro TSM and Fugro Survey, global subsea contractors servicing the oil and gas and marine industries with offices in Perth and Brisbane.
The New South Wales Department of Education and Communities, the largest single organization, public or private, in Australia, has chosen ReadSoft’s SAP -certified invoice automation solution to streamline its existing invoice processing operations and enable greater efficiencies across its Shared Services Centre.
