At Whitireia NZ, one of New Zealand’s largest learning institutions with five campus’s and approximately 1000 full and part time staff, SharePoint 2010 is being deployed for document and records management, application development and workflow. It is being used for the organisational intranet and TeamSites.
A staggered rollout across the whole organisation uses a taxonomy developed for all NZ polytechnics based on Records Disposals Acts (NZ).
The Catholic Education Office of Canberra and Goulburn deployed a SP 2007 trial at the beginning 2011 to evaluate it as a corporate information portal.
“Get the business involved from the beginning and ensure it does not become an IT project. Give yourself twice as much time as you expect to migrate content.” - Knowledge Manager, Australian water utility
Governance, Tick. User adoption, double tick. Custom development and records management, tick again. IDM’s 2012 survey of knowledge and information managers has found some common concerns as they undertake SharePoint upgrades or fresh deployments across Australia and New Zealand.
After its 2011 purchase of ECM vendor Perceptive Software, Lexmark has moved further down the content chain with the $US148 million acquisition of intelligent data capture software vendor Brainware.
INPEX, a leading worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company, is to simplify and streamline its purchase order and invoicing processes within Australia through the deployment of OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for use with SAP Solutions (VIM).
Enterprise social media tool Yammer is delivering results for researchers, clinicians and nurses at Genea, an Australian company at the forefront of assisting and researching human fertility.
