Industry Insider

  • SharePoint goes social in Asia-Pacific

    Newsgator has announced its first clients in the APAC region for its Social Sites add-on to SharePoint, including Allens Arthur Robinson , Bank of New Zealand ; Coca Cola Amatil (NZ); the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Australian property group Stockland.

  • Managed metadata cleans up information chaos

    The arrival of managed metadata in SharePoint 2010 is providing a lifeline to organisations drowning in unclassified data, according to James Milne, Chief Technology Officer of Brisbane-based Myriad Technologies, who addressed the topic at the 3rd Australia SharePoint technology conference in Melbourne.

     

  • ASIC signs three year deal with Nuix

    Nuix has extended its relationship with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in a three-year multi-million-dollar agreement to supply ediscovery and electronic investigation software. This contract will expand the Australian corporate regulator’s ability to investigate the largest and most complex data sets.

  • Victoria all atwitter about social media records

    Can I delete a tweet or permanently scrub a post to my Facebook Wall? Victorian government employees are being advised to contact their records management staff before sending their latest social media interactions to the recycle bin.

  • Google Apps dives into ediscovery

    An ediscovery application has been launched for Google Apps known as Vault aimed at reducing the costs of litigation, regulatory investigation and compliance actions.

  • Lexmark acquires ISYS Search Software and Nolij

    Lexmark continues to beef up its information management portfolio, with this week’s purchase of Australia’s ISYS Search Software and U.S.–based Nolij Corporation adding to recent acquisitions in the ECM and capture fields, Perceptive Software and Brainware.

  • Pingar wins SharePoint Idol award

    Pingar won its round of SharePoint Idol at the 2012 Australia SharePoint Conference held in Melbourne 20-21 March, 2012, where different solutions are presented and then voted on by conferencegoers in a competitive bake-off.

  • Infragistics acquires mobile SharePoint app

    Infragistics, a company traditionally specialising in user interface development, has acquired a platform that extends Sharepoint apps seamlessly to the iPad,  iPhone and other non-Windows mobile platforms.

  • Digital postbox to launch in 2012

    A joint venture between service bureaus Computershare and SALMAT is readying the launch of Zumbox in Australia, providing a service called Digital Post Australia.