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Jive Software, a leading social business platform, has announced the opening of new offices in Sydney, Melbourne; Hong Kong; and Singapore.

If you're like thousands of businesses across the globe, you are evaluating the opportunities to "go paperless." Recent mid-market surveys indicate that document management is ranked in the top five IT initiatives being undertaken.

A major government record-keeping "stuff-up" has resulted in sensitive documents from the 1980s Fitzgerald Inquiry into Queensland Police corruption being mistakenly made available to the public. These records potentially identify secret witnesses, anonymous testimony and criminal allegations.

Managing information in the form of corporate data, documents and records is arguably one of the most crucial activities for any organization and its employees. Organisations depend on information to make critical strategic decisions, serve customers, protect legal rights and process transactions. Most large companies even create entire departments to maximize the value of that information and help employees quickly and easily access it to make better decisions.

It is estimated that 80 percent of the data held by an average financial institution is unstructured. Harnessing the functionality of Big Data in analyzing unstructured data elements like images, videos, documents and e-mails will enable banks to explore new dimensions in insight generation and decision making, says Kishen Kumar of Infosys, 

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