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Information Value Index sets low benchmark

Just four percent of businesses are able to extract the full value from the information they hold, with over a third (36 percent) lacking the tools and skills they need to do so, according to new research from storage and information management company, Iron Mountain and PwC. As a result, 43 percent of the European and North American companies surveyed obtain little tangible benefit from their information, and 23 percent derive no benefit whatsoever.

Migrating Millions of Legal Documents to SharePoint 

​Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths recently replaced their document management system (Hummingbird DM6) with a new solution based on MacroView DMF and Microsoft SharePoint (see the  Case Study).  A critically important part of this project was the migration of nearly 3 million existing documents.  Challenges included the need to move multiple versions of most documents, to preserve existing metadata and document-level permissions – as well as coping with the differences in how SharePoint operates compared to the previous traditional DM system.  In this article we look at how these challenges were handled so that the migration was a success.

Unstructured Data Analytics Shouldn’t Be Such a Mess

The problem with searching for a needle in a haystack is that the process, by nature, is inefficient. So why has it become a popular analogy for analytics efforts within the enterprise? Because today’s analytics attempts – particularly for unstructured human data – are typically a mess.

Turnbull's 'agile' government borrows from his IT past

Malcolm Turnbull has had many high-profile careers, including as a barrister, merchant banker and aspiring media proprietor. By far his most lucrative, however, was in the IT industry.

NZ Ministry takes on cloud ECM

Aiming to transform into paperless organisation by 2020, New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment (MfE) is deploying OpenText Enterprise Content Management-as-a-Service. Based in Wellington, MfE is the government’s principal adviser on policies, laws and issues affecting the environment. 

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