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Data Governance Australia (DGA), a not-for-profit association founded in 2016 in order to establish industry standards and benchmarks around the collection, use and management of data in Australia,  has announced the launch of a draft Code of Practice (the Code).

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) wants a new global collaboration platform for unclassified material that operates separately to the TRIM EDRMS utilised by more than 5000 staff worldwide.

If you want to see a bank customer wince, ask them to manually input a series of long numbers or text strings into online banking systems. Yet even though we are well into the “digital transformation era” and despite the customer turnoff, many bank payments still require such painful manual rekeying of data.

Records management is becoming more complicated because of the sheer volume of information within companies. To deal with this deluge, some innovative organisations are moving away from declaring information as records and are managing all organisational information from a retention standpoint instead. However, what is retention management, and how can it be effectively leveraged within organisations?

Research shows that when it comes to process improvement and automation, eighty-one percent of finance departments report having a process owner according to new research by information management analysts at the US Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). Twenty-eight percent of responding organisations positioned themselves as trailblazers – being above average and ahead of their peers – when it comes to the automated invoice processing and billing.

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