Industry Insider

  • Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap

    In order to adopt cloud IaaS and PaaS successfully (and arguably, to adopt SaaS optimally), an organization needs skills. Most of all, it needs technical skills for the whole application lifecycle in the cloud — the ability to architect applications (and their underlying stacks) for the cloud, develop for the cloud, secure the cloud, run and manage and govern the cloud environments and the applications in those environments. The more cloud-natively you can do these things, the better.

  • Guide to Handprint Extraction and Hyperautomation

    Capturing handprint data has been a source of hardship for most organizations, which is why we’re covering the top five factors to consider when working on any hyperautomation initiative that touches handwritten data and documents. With that in mind, Ephesoft has some exciting new capabilities and best-in-class accuracy rates that are the highest in the industry for cursive handwriting. 

  • You Have Intelligent Search. So, What Do Your Users Think?

    There’s so much more to the word “content” than how we use it in the technology and knowledge management (KM) fields. In the corporate world, content refers to documents, news sites, and customer conversations in multiple media and social network discussions. That’s content as a noun. But content is also an adjective, as in “are you content with your meal?” And con- tent is a verb, as in “to content yourself with your meal.”

  • Apple PassKeys could make traditional passwords obsolete

    Sometimes it seems like passwords have been with us forever, and yet every year we’re reminded how we still don’t use them properly! The annual publication of the “worst passwords” list shows we haven’t become much more password savvy over the decade. And while several replacements for the humble password have been proposed, none have come close to the ease of using the traditional method. But this changes with the introduction of Passkeys – an update in Apple’s latest iOS 16 operating system. Passkeys could be the long-awaited solution to password malpractice, and the near-constant problem of compromised credentials

  • How do I get more value from my Content Manager system?

    Several customers have asked us how they can change the way they manage records using Content Manager to get a better return on their investment. They tell us that they no longer want their Content Manager system to be the single source of truth. Why? Because staff are required to understand how and when to use Content Manager. That is, Content Manager is enforcing a centralised repository model, which means staff need to take extra steps in capturing, managing or searching for records – something they would rather avoid.

  • Top Five Characteristics of Successful Digital Transformation Leaders

    As CIOs face ever-expanding responsibilities in their roles, they must remain effective in dealing with uncertainty and change. Digital not only disrupts business, it also transforms leadership. Gartner research shows that successful digital business initiatives demand paradigm shifts in technology leadership and new ways of thinking and approaching challenges.

  • The push to citizen-centric government

    John Garratt is federal government director at Micro Focus.  Recently he met with IDM to discuss how Micro Focus is helping Australian government organisations pursue digital transformation strategies.

  • Automation potential remains untapped within Finance and Accounting (F&A): Study

    In a recent commissioned research study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Digital Workforce, findings show that F&A teams are hindered by their failure to adopt automation for strategic success. The study reveals that although many businesses have invested in RPA (Robotic Process Automation), their efforts have not gone far enough to truly digitally transform their F&A processes.