I was asked the other day whether SharePoint is the solution to all SME’s management problems. Can it replace any or all current IT systems that they are using? At first I was taken by surprise as to why a business owner would ask me if SharePoint was the magic pill to cure all of the businesses ailments. But when I began to do some of my preliminary investigation into the organisation, I started to confuse myself and think well maybe it is. By Samuel Conway
Woolworths and Coles have taken the supermarket war to the cloud, with the two giant Australian retailers taking diametrically opposed options via Google Apps and Office365.
Australian oil and gas operator Woodside has turned to SmartPlant Fusion, a new solution developed by Intergraph to specifically tackle the challenges of managing unstructured information.
Certus Solutions, an Australian IBM software and services company, has elected to split one of its major divisions into two, Business Analytics (BA) and Information Management (IM) will now become two separate units.
Malaysia Airlines has announced it will automate vendor invoices into the company’s new SAP system via the Esker automated Accounts Payable (AP) solution in a $S700,000 deal.
Australian online financial services provider SuperIQ has completed the successful deployment of an eFLOW Digital Mailroom solution to classify and process between 500-600 documents per day.
Brother Industries of Japan has jumped out of the block as a potential new owner for the Kodak Document Imaging business, but the final sale will not proceed until at least June and in the meantime other companies can beat the Japanese multinationals' offer of around $US210 million
The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade has announced Fujitsu Australia as the winner of a $100.8 million tender to completely overhaul the systems it employs to issue Australian passports. The process is expected to take five years.
The role of the Health Information Manager is no easy task. Like a conductor leading an orchestra, they must lead a wide range of health information initiatives – across multiple departments – to keep their health system in tune. And with the healthcare data explosion – driven by the Electronic Medical Record, and clinical imaging – there is a huge imperative to manage increasingly diverse types of information.
