Industry Insider

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 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 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, 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.

iOra, a provider of high performance SharePoint replication solutions, has appointed Brisbane-based Myriad Technologies as its reselling partner in Australia and New Zealand. 

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

As image asset management challenges go, they don’t get much bigger. Dr Jessica Chapman walked into a new role at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility in 2000 to find that as part of her job she had been put in charge of an archive of 100,000 negatives documenting the history of radio astronomy from 1946 to 1996. 

The Director General of the National Archives of Australia, David Fricker, has launched  a digital plan to overcome the Commonwealth government’s $200 million annual cost for storing paper records.

The voice of the customer will be heard loudly at the Australia SharePoint Conference 2012 being held from March 20-21 at the Melbourne Hilton, which boasts a redoubled program of Case Studies and user sessions according to lead organiser Debbie Ireland.

Melbourne Health has select Xcellerate IT to streamline the processing of over 300,000 supplier invoices per year, using a Kofax capture solution. Xcellerate IT will deliver an invoice solution that will enable the scanning and processing of supplier invoices integrated with the Oracle Financials system, HealthSMART.