Document & Records Management
A KM journey is underway at North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) is a leading port authority responsible for world-class facilities at the working ports of Hay Point, Mackay, Abbot Point and Weipa. It has 180 full time employees at its Brisbane and Mackay corporate offices.
Standards Australia is holding a one-day seminar on Records and Document Management Systems to introduce standards arising from the work of the technical committee.
Many organisations feel that they are at risk because of a lack of information governance polices, according to new research from the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), with data lapses over the past 12 months sharpening focus on the security and privacy elements of information governance.
IBM researchers have demonstrated a new record of 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch in areal data density on low-cost linear magnetic particulate tape — a significant update to one of the computer industry's most resilient, reliable and affordable data storage technologies for Big Data.
Upland Software has launched announced the latest version of the FileBound cloud-native document and workflow automation software claiming it takes the product’s analytics, workflow and electronic forms capability to the next level in the cloud.
Informative Graphics Corporation has announced the latest version of Brava! Enterprise includes a Doc Merge add-on option to combine multiple files of any type or split long documents to create new PDF or TIFF files from within the HTML interface. (Doc Merge is also available as a standalone product.)
Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) and Microsoft (Thailand) Limited have signed a memorandum of understanding that will provide 8 million students and 400,000 teachers across Thailand with access to Microsoft Office 365 for education. The agreement, which also includes the extension of the highly successful Partners in Learning initiative to 2019, represents the single biggest cloud service deployment for Microsoft in the education sector globally.
ABBYY has announced the new release of ABBYY Recognition Server, its server-based software for automated, unattended document conversion. The latest release offers new functions for more-efficient conversion of large archives, plus enhanced Microsoft SharePoint integration that allows turning images in SharePoint-based document libraries into searchable content. The new version also offers advanced PDF creation capabilities, new fault-tolerance mechanisms, and enhanced Arabic optical character recognition (OCR).
Energistics, the upstream oil and gas open standards consortium, has published the Energy Industry Profile (EIP) Version 1.0 of ISO 19115-1. The EIP is an open, non-proprietary metadata exchange standard designed to document structured and unstructured information resources of importance to members of the energy community and to maximize metadata interoperability within the industry. Energistics' Geoportal is a Reference Implementation of a searchable catalog compliant with the EIP metadata standard. The implementation demonstrates discovery of distributed resources documented by EIP and any of three metadata standards transformable to EIP (ISO 19115, ISO 19115-2, FGDC).
Digitalization, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning, but most CIOs do not feel prepared for this next era, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. The survey showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating the core of IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future. The survey found that 51 percent of CIOs are concerned that the digital torrent is coming faster than they can cope and 42 percent don't feel that they have the talent needed to face this future.
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