Industry Insider

  • IntelliChief delivers for Thomas & Betts

    IntelliChief LLC, the official document management solution provider to Infor, has been chosen to deliver a solution to global manufacturer Thomas & Betts to streamline their processes while eliminating paper.

  • AGS takes Elite path

    The Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) has made the decision to implement Thomson Reuters Elite’s Enterprise Business Management Solution (EMBS) with 3E, MatterSphere, and Engage. The full-service legal practice will roll these solutions out to 350 timekeepers throughout its main office in Canberra and other locations in every Australian capital city. 

  • OneDrive to rule them all?

    The last time I felt this dumb was after installing Windows Vista. On this occasion, many years and software iterations later, I was midway through an Office365 migration gone pear-shaped. The same feelings of regret and powerlessness washed over me as the realisation dawned that the Telstra support guy in Bangalore controlling the mouse wandering aimlessly across my monitor had even less of an idea than I did what was going on.

  • Microsoft announces new Office365 apps

    Meet Office Graph, one of new series of Office apps that Microsoft is planning to launch exclusively for Office365 users to bring together information from sources such as Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, Office, Lync, and Yammer.

  • Hidden data in online photos could catch sex offenders

    Police may soon have a new way to catch paedophiles who distribute child abuse photos anonymously online. The technology could also help law enforcement agencies in other ways, such as identifying smartphone thieves who take pictures with the stolen gadgets and then post their snapshots on the Internet.

  • Privacy laws catch Australian firms on the hop

    More than three out of five Australian organisations appear to be unprepared for the Privacy Amendment Act (PAA), according to a new study from storage and information management company Iron Mountain. This lack of preparedness may leave organisations vulnerable to new fines and penalties when the changes take effect on March 12. 

  • Five information security and big data forecasts for 2014

    In 2013, high-profile data leaks led many people to question how governments and businesses across the globe gather and store citizens’ data. The year also saw no end to the growth in corporate data stores and Australian companies moving more of their data to the cloud.

  • How much does search effect good governance?

    Search is important, but not viewed as a key component in Information Governance, according to the results of an annual SharePoint Metadata Survey completed by Concept Searching, a developer of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software.