The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), the peak member body for the ICT industry, is undertaking a major survey of Australian organisations on analytics and data usage. The purpose of the survey is to find out what differentiates those business, government and NGO organisations that effectively use data and analytics for senior decision making.

US developer SiteFocus Inc. has launched a cloud-based analytics solution called Communications in Focus (CIF) which aims to solve a problem facing businesses of all sizes – how do you discover and validate actionable insight from unstructured data?

Concept Searching, a developer of metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, has made its conceptClassifier for File Shares utility available to clients.

Frankston City Council in Victoria will deploy Promapp’s cloud-based business process management software, in a move the organisation says will support the council’s ongoing business improvement program.

Fujitsu is building and implementing an end-to-end grants management system for the Australian Federal Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is in talks with a private equity to sell its software division, hoping it can fetch between $US8-10 billion, according to reports.

TIMG has announced a significant expansion in its delivery of legal service through the acquisition of Lexdata. Lexdata joins forces with LitSupport under the TIMG umbrella to deliver clients in the legal industry broader access to support services and expertise in information management.

Ayfie has unveiled a new text understanding engine that the company claims can quarry volumes of structured and unstructured content at lightning speed, with near-human accuracy, saving time and money.  

iManage has announced the release of iManage Work 9.4, an update to its core document and email management solution which spans document and email management, secure file collaboration, knowledge management, information governance, and process automation. iManage Work Product Management is available as a cloud service in the iManage Cloud and as an on-premises installed product.

Australia and Singapore Data Centres for iManage Cloud, the company's cloud service for Work Product Management, are due to come online this month as part of the company's cloud strategy. iManage currently has iManage Cloud data centres in the US and UK.