Industry Insider

  • Peoplebank signs on with Secured Signing

    Peoplebank, Australia's largest IT and specialist recruiter, has signed a contract to use Secured Signing's digital signing process to give it an edge in getting its contractors signed up and onto client projects.  Peoplebank has begun rolling out the service and early adopters are finding savings of around an hour-and-a-half with each new contractor placement.

  • Beware of the information zombies

    We all know them. We’re all scared of them. Information zombies. Time-munching, brain cell-crunching clutter of undead information. Information that simply won’t stay dead but comes back to haunt us on a daily basis.

  • Objective CEO in the driver’s seat

    Founder and CEO of Australia's Objective Corporation, Tony Walls is driven to excel at whatever he does. Be that building a successful global enterprise software company, or hurtling around a racetrack on weekends competing against professional drivers in Carrera Cup, a fully-fledged national motor racing championship that routinely acts as the premier support category for the V8 Supercars Championship.

  • Information Management - A Love Triangle

    Most people have heard the phrase “people are our most valuable resource.” But is this really true? And — assuming that it is — do most businesses act on this truth?

  • Are you in control of your records?

    The Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is concerned that organisations are not prepared for a world where business information, once totally paper-based, is now distributed in millions of digital records and e-mails that make up an organisation's data. It has published a new report to help assess the risks.

  • New home for John Howard collection

    UNSW Australia will house the papers of former Prime Minister John Howard, who has announced the transfer of his collection to the University through a unique partnership with the National Archives of Australia.

  • $US1M TIS European census win

    Top  Image Systems has won a contract to provide an eFLOW deployment worth over $1.0M USD to process the digital census of a country in EMEA with a population of over 15 million.  The project follows Top Image Systems' recognition as an approved vendor for the UNPFA (United Nations Population Fund Agency), the organisation responsible for the execution of censuses worldwide. 

  • Digital overhaul of Vatican archiving project

    NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, has been selected to overhaul the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican Apostolic Library. The overall project, which was started by the Vatican Apostolic Library some years ago and is currently ongoing with an initial output of 6,000 manuscripts, is intended to digitally archive all manuscripts preserved in the Library, amounting to some 82,000 specimens and 41 million pages.