At home I am able to plug my toaster into the wall, pop in some bread, and focus on what delicious spread I should have on my toast. I don’t have to worry about building and operating power plants to generate and supply electricity for my breakfast. This is what Cloud is doing for organisations – allowing them to focus on outcomes of their core business and purchase technology as a commodity.
Big data has opened doors never before considered by many businesses. The idea of utilizing unstructured data for analysis has in the past been far too expensive for most companies to consider. Thanks to technologies such as Hadoop, unstructured data analysis is becoming more common in the business world.
ECM vendor Hyland Software has upped its offer for enterprise capture software leader ReadSoft increase, meanwhile announcing an expanded Australian presence and the purchase of local solution provider CAYLX Software for an undisclosed sum.
SharePoint has matured over the past 13 years. What has changed? Enterprises are still affected by a volatile economy, burgeoning regulatory requirements and the overall challenge to do more with less. This is also evident in organizations’ use of SharePoint. Results from a Concept Searching survey found SharePoint is no longer relegated to just a departmental solution or a collaboration platform.
McCullough Robertson, a leading Australian law firm, has deployed Intapp Wall Builder to secure client data across information repositories for 52 partners plus staff located in its Brisbane, Sydney and Newcastle offices.
