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This scathing ANAO Audit of Australia’s Health Department highlights many issues of concern, however it does seem to embody a fundamentally old school interpretation of record-keeping which places documents at its foundation.

The internal discussion happens every year, doesn’t it? “We don’t have the budget … We don’t have the resources at this time … We have another project that is taking priority … Let’s consider AP Imaging and Workflow Automation next year …” Automating your AP department may feel like a daunting undertaking, but can you really afford NOT to do it?

With the New Year nearly upon us, it’s no surprise that companies have begun releasing predictions for the technology industry in 2016. Independent technology analyst firm Ovum has joined in with its prediction that says the enterprise content management (ECM) space has entered a new period of rapid evolution. In its 2016 Trends to Watch report on Enterprise Content Management, Ovum outlines the major factors it expects will shape the ECM market in the coming year. These factors include content analytics, the security of content and increased concern over compliance and governance risks.

Australia’s Federal Government has released a Discussion Paper as well as its Exposure Draft of Legislation to make it mandatory for certain organizations to report data breaches. If passed, the bill would require large private sector organisations and Federal government agencies to notify the Federal Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals of serious data breaches.

In their efforts to identify and protect information assets, companies are not identifying many information "content" risks that fall between gaps of data stewardship and regulatory compliance.

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