The Finance community faces rigorous compliance demands compounded by senior management obligations for continuity planning. It’s a highly integrated industry and the pressures mean that firms must increasingly demonstrate easy, efficient and effective business solutions. Take, for example, document transmission and storage; a mundane but essential source of key client and transactional data which needs to be carefully managed. For too many firms this is a Cinderella issue and the potential risk is high, not just to cost, but also to reputation.
A perennial issue facing most content managers is training people to apply the right tags and metadata. Without good tagging content is lost, leading to duplication, ineffective search and a substantial amount of time wasted as people hunt for content they know is in there somewhere. The DataFacet solution from WAND Inc provides sets of extensive taxonomies, and tools to automate the classification of documents and web content.
New Zealand-based, Techtonics, and Australian-headquartered, StoneBridge Systems, have been assigned the annually proscribed OpenText Partner Awards for 2011.
Spending on information technology (IT) products and services by enterprises in Australia is expected to reach A$61.9 billion in 2012, up 1.9 percent over 2011, according to a new report from industry analysts Gartner
Australian PDF tools developer Nitro has announced the latest release of its Pro 7 product, promising tools to enable users to create, edit, secure, sign, and share PDF files more intuitively.
IT security consultants Pure Hacking are warning that organisations relying on public cloud computing solutions for the storage and processing of credit card data faced an increasing conflict when achieving PCI compliance.
HiSoftware has launched a content-aware compliance and security solution for SharePoint 2010, HiSoftware Security Sheriff SP. The product was built by HiSoftware’s 8-strong Australian development team in Melbourne, and tackles the challenge of securing sensitive documents that reside inside SharePoint.
Canada’s SydneyPLUS has acquired Inmagic's special library business, including Inmagic's DB/Text Library Suite of products: DB/TextWorks, DB/Text WebPublisher Pro, and Inmagic Genie. Additionally, the companies are announcing a strategic partnership to co-market and support Inmagic's Presto for Social Libraries.
Brainware, a US provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions, will be exhibiting at Procure to Pay 2011, an annual conference taking place November 15-17 at The Sebel Surrey Hills Sydney in Sydney, Australia.
