Document & Records Management

News Corp is rolling out Dropbox across the organization to provide its 25,000-plus employees globally the tools to better work together.

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has launched a Research Data Archive to provide an institution-wide long-term storage platform. It has been designed specifically for researchers to securely search and share data with colleagues and comply with research data policies and codes of practice.

Dicker Data is to distribute Nuance’s license software solutions including Power PDF, OmniPage, PaperPort and Dragon to channel partners and software resellers in Australia.

A three year, $A5.4M program to implement electronic record-keeping at the Department of Health has failed to provide “an effective and efficient records management system which delivered identified business needs,” according to a report by the Australian National Audit Office.

This scathing ANAO Audit of Australia’s Health Department highlights many issues of concern, however it does seem to embody a fundamentally old school interpretation of record-keeping which places documents at its foundation.

Akumina is a US developer whose InterChange software platform aims to make it easier for businesses to build adoptable digital experiences on SharePoint. Version 2.5 of InterChange, unveiled at the SharePoint Fest Show in Chicago, includes significant enhancements to InterChange's content authoring, site management and workflow capabilities.

I read an article recently about how the paperless push in the Victorian Government was apparently failing. My immediate thought was “not surprised” given the way most organisations (including government agencies) approach the transition to a paperless office.

More than half of organisations surveyed by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) for a recent report on data governance have had data-related incidents in the past 12 months, including 16% suffering a data breach.

New Zealand information and knowledge management solution provider Information Leadership was awarded ICT Vendor of the Year at the recent Annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Awards. The company was nominated by the Upper Hutt City Council which has recently implemented an electronic document and records management system and intranet SharePoint solution.

TechnologyOne has announced the integration of Office 365 with the TechOne Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution at Microsoft’s 2015 Connect Conference in New York.

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