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  • Micro Focus and Kapish announce five-year global partnership

    Micro Focus and Kapish have extended their worldwide Content Manager Cloud agreement to a five-year term. The global tech partnership provides secure cloud capability for Micro Focus’ Content Manager, helping government agencies and regulated organisations safely manage every step of their information flow. 

  • Kapish delivers secure EDRMS cloud for the CSIRO 

    Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has gone live with a new records management system secured by Kapish, a global leader in secure enterprise information management.  Under the landmark three-year agreement, Kapish is supporting the complex record, regulatory, data and content management needs of CSIRO users in the secure cloud.

  • Annature and Barbeques Galore eSignature deal

    Barbeques Galore has signed Annature to deliver the eSigning requirements for its headquarters staff administration requirements for internal documentation and select communication with 90 stores. For Barbeques Galore, the agreement helps reduce the admin burden for franchisees and removes the need for signing paper. For Annature, the Australian-owned electronic signature innovator, this latest deal further extends the company's footprint into retail.

  • LTO Tape Capacity Shipments reached new record in 2021

    The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Quantum Corporation, have released their annual tape media shipment report, detailing year-over-year shipments through the fourth quarter of 2021. The report reveals 148 Exabytes1 (EB) of total tape capacity (compressed) shipped in 2021.

  • Can Software Help My Data Governance Initiative? 

    In the last couple of years, I have seen a move away from companies implementing data governance because they are in an industry where their regulator requires it, to organizations starting data governance purely because of the benefits they can achieve. That also includes companies looking to extend what they had put in place to meet regulatory requirements across more of their organization.

  • Financial Service Firms are Accelerating DX with Low Code: Survey

    Mendix, a Siemens enterprise application development business, has announced the results of its financial services and insurance (FSI) global market survey which reveals how companies in these industries are using low-code to drive digitization, improved experiences, and modernize legacy systems.

  • Insurer MSIG Asia transforms with OpenText

    MSIG Singapore and MSIG Malaysia have implemented OpenText information management solutions to empower modern work, enhance omni-channel customer experiences, and drive operational efficiencies.

  • David Fricker joins Compu-Stor

    Compu-Stor has welcomed David Fricker to the business. David will be working with Compu-Stor as a Specialist Consultant – Information Management. David held the office of Director-General of the National Archives of Australia for ten years, from January 2012. 

  • Budget 2022: $9.9 billion towards cyber security aims to make Australia a key ‘offensive’ cyber player

    In the 2022 federal budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg launched a range of vote-winning initiatives – one of which included a breathtaking A$9.9 billion for cyber security over ten years. Bundled under the acronym REDSPICE (which stands for resilience, effects, defence, space, intelligence, cyber and enablers), the program is expected to help build Australia’s intelligence and defensive (and offensive) capabilities. But what does this mean, where is the money coming from and just how offensive are we planning to be?