Industry Insider

  • GPS vulnerabilities highlighted by spatial expert

    An over-reliance on the ageing Global Positioning System has put critical infrastructure at serious potential risk of failure if the GPS network is ever disrupted, Canberra-based spatial expert Nunzio Gambale has warned.

  • Design is an asset for Longina Phillips

    Climbing the well-worn timber staircase to the Surry Hills, Sydney design studio of Longina Phillips Designs and the door opens to a hive of a hive of design activity and modern technology. In the case of this busy design studio there is nothing artificial about the distressed finish to the timber stairs and flooring, it is genuine wear and tear from the traffic of hundreds of talented designers and artists that have worked in the Victorian-era terrace building since the studio opened in 1988.

  • When the BI and ECM worlds collide

    Is Big Data bringing together the traditionally separate worlds of structured and unstructured data? Enterprise analytics leader SAS believes the growing uptake of its tools for social media analysis could be the trigger to crossing the divide.

  • Cloud EDRMS gets Australian government tick

    Canberra-based information Management Company, iCognition, has been selected by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) to provide cloud-based HP TRIM Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS) to Government. 

  • Search ends for lost AWU files

    The WA Department of Commerce has declared the hunt is over for correspondence relating to the establishment of Australian Workers Union (AWU) Workplace Reform Association in 1992.

  • Oakton takes on OpenText

    Business consulting company Oakton has announced it has entered into a Partner Agreement with OpenText Australia and New Zealand, to provide architecture and consulting services targeted to enterprise clients and government agencies.

  • CAYLX Software appoints OnBase partner in ACT

    CAYLX Software has announced the expansion of its business in Australia with the appointment of Insitec as a business partner to promote and support Hyland Software’s OnBase Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software for which CAYLX Software holds Australian master distribution.  

  • TechOne wins $A3m Red Cross deal

    Australian Red Cross has signed an $A3m deal with TechnologyOne to implement new enterprise software as part of a major initiative to boost its national retail business, consolidate its business systems as part of the ‘One Red Cross’ program and improve fundraising.

  • CSIRO sorts social media with smart software

    Responding earlier to bushfires and helping address mental health issues are just two of the benefits being seen with the introduction of new social media software from CSIRO. The social media analysis software is helping organisations make sense of massive volumes of social media traffic, according to a services research specialist Alan Dormer.

  • Enterprise Social Software market maturing: IDC

    Analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has published its 2012 MarketScape report profiling and ranking the leading providers in the worldwide enterprise social software market. This new research indicates that as use cases of enterprise social software broaden and mature, organisations are looking to engage internal users and customers in an ongoing conversation, inside and outside the firewall.