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Data breaches cost $2M per year: Symantec

A global survey of enterprise security by Symantec found that 75% of organisations have have suffered data breaches within the past 12 months and losses are averaging $US2 million annually. The figure was even higher in Australia/New Zealand, where 89 percent of those surveyed experienced attacks on their IT infrastructure in the past 12 months.

Federal Police makes a case for accounts payable automation

The Australian Federal Police is moving further ahead with its goal to implement an end to end Purchasing and Payment Solution, issuing a tender for automated invoice processing.

An open source model for SharePoint governance

SharePoint’s rapid installation across organisations (and especially within the public sector) is leading to fragmented deployment, which is then causing difficulties when attempting to merge or share content and applications. Organisations that are part of a federation, such as Local and State Councils – can alleviate future integration bottlenecks, reduce investments in application development, increase the rate of eServices delivery and help ensure that stakeholders can share information, by adopting the governance practices from the open source community.

Defence aims at the future

The stakes a are high for Project Eden, the codename for a long term project to rollout a single electronic document and records management system across all arms of Australia's Defence forces.

Murdoch reclaims space with i2 Scan

Western Australia's Murdoch University has implemented a records solution from Australia's i2 Scan to cover more than 18,000 students and 1,400 staff from all over the world.

Office opens up to OnePlaceMail

OnePlaceMail is broadening its horiozons, with release 3.1 of the Outlook/Sharepoint integration suite extending its reach to Word/Excel and PowerPoint.

South East Water puts SharePoint in its place with Open Text CLM

A horses for courses approach to SharePoint and ECM is paying dividends for Marcus Darbyshire, Chief Information Officer of South East Water, a Victorian Government-owned provider of water and related services, which has just deployed Open Text Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) Services for SharePoint. 

Trading titans’ clash swords in discovery clash

David McGrath follows the trail of a single email which is at the heart of a two year court battle between electronic trading giant Optiver and Aussie rising star Tibra.

Deloitte expands Analytics practice

Professional services firm Deloitte is expanding its Analytics group with the acquisition of marketing and business insights specialist boutique firm Pathfinder Solutions.

DocsCorp and Objective tackle government workflow in ANZ

The demand from government for efficient PDF solutions has driven DocsCorp to expand its integration capability to include Objective, a leader in ECM solutions for local government in Australia and New Zealand.

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