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Smartgoup concurs on cloud AP automation

A move to the Concur cloud-based accounts payable (AP) automation system is paying dividends for Smartgroup Corporation, an ASX top 300-listed company with over 350 staff throughout Australia, saving time and money by eliminating manual processes using Concur’s automation technology.

Can FOI access Turnbull’s private email?

Is private email used by government ministers or prime ministers accessible to freedom of Information (FOI) requests? Malcolm Turnbull’s office is only certain that this may "potentially" be the case. Experts are even less sure.

A new way to deliver records management

The aim of records management is simple: keep what you need and discard what you don’t. When this aim is achieved, organizations are less exposed to risk. The question is, how can we achieve this simple goal?

Are SharePoint BLOBs dragging you down?

I might be a little old fashioned, but I came up through an Electronic Content Management (ECM) and Transaction Content Management (TCM) community where you never put BLOBs directly in your database. By BLOBs, I am referring to Binary Large Objects (not the 1988 thriller movie) which are chunks of images or other large data stored as a single object. I was taught that the database should hold pointers to BLOB content stored on another inexpensive storage system like SAN or NAS drives. However, when I entered the world of SharePoint, I realised that everyone was storing BLOBs in their databases.

Canadian Government Dept. awards contract for unstructured data management

Acaveo, a provider of File Analysis software for analysing and managing unstructured data, has been awarded a Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) contract to deploy its software at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

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