Document & Records Management

Tower Software held its first ever press conference today, despite 20 years of sustained success in Australia and around the world, and revealed its plans to float on the stock market and launch fiercely into the enterprise content managem...

Information capture specialists Dicom Group's subsidiary Kofax has signed an agreement with Adobe Systems to integrate Adobe's LiveCycle Barcoded Forms into Kofax's Ascent Capture platform. The combined solution will enable companies, gove...

IT research firm Gartner has reached agreement with META Group to acquire the rival IT research and consulting company for around US$162 million (AU$211.5 million), or US $10.00 (AU$13.06) a share.

Continuing our new series of profiles of Australia's Chief Information Officers, IDM chats to Dallas Stower, who has been CIO of Queensland Rail since March 2001, to get an insight into the particular demands of the CIO position at a high ...

From typewriters and triplicate to the electronic era, Hazel Dobbie, of Archives NZ, takes us through the biggest change to records management legislation across the Tasman in almost half a century.

In 2003, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) established the Digital Recordkeeping Initiative. Laurie Varendorff, of the ARMA (Association of Records Managers and Administrators), talks to Dr Andrew Wilson, project manager, Managing D...

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is in the process of developing a "document exploitation' system that will improve its ability to analyse key information needed in the battle against terrorism. By Rodney Appleyard.

Is microfilm, which first came into use in the 1870s, undergoing a rebirth some 130 years after its first application as a support media in a time of conflict? Laurie Varendorff, who's involvement in records management stretches back more ...

IDM-What do you think will be the main issues under discussion at this year's RMAA 2004 international convention?

Whistleblower Kevin Lindeberg's story on the Heiner affair-or Shreddergate as it has become known-was first reported in IDM in our July/August 2003 issue ("When proof goes missing"). Since then, Lindeberg's struggle for justice has feature...

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