Articles

What is Information Governance? – an executive briefing

If you are in charge of a company or organisation or even a large department, then you will have heard the term “information governance”, and you will have probably asked yourself: “What is it I need to know about this new field?” You will want an answer that is not just theoretical but practically relates the definition of information governance with your organization’s or division’s core tasks and responsibilities.

What is SharePoint?  Where are we going?

My response to the question, “what do you do for a living”? can vary depending on how much patience the person I am talking to appears to have, from ”I work in IT”, ”I build intranets of a sort” to the outright, ”I am a SharePoint Specialist.” I am normally then presented with one of two responses:

Beating the backup blues at PFD Food Services

A move to the Amazon cloud for data backups is paying dividends for PFD Food Services, Australia’s largest privately owned fresh and frozen food distributor with $A1.5 billion turnover, 2,200 staff and over 65 sites across Australia.

Turnbull defends private email server

Following the revelations of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account in March this year, IDM contact a number of Australian and New Zealand government ministers to ask if they had similar habits. Many confirmed their strict use of government email services for official government business. Significantly, in light of revelations this week, then Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull was one who failed to respond.

Uni moving 6000 staff away from Google

Macquarie University is migrating staff email away from Gmail to Office 365, due to concerns about data sovereignty. The university plans for all staff email and calendars to be migrated to Office 365 by the end of this year.

Pages