Enterprise Applications

Iron Mountain has announced the results of a recent research survey* that reveals the risks associated with licensing critical software applications, and why procurement professionals and IT asset managers must take protections to safeguard the software that is at the heart of their business operations.

Does OpenText’s $US1.62B acquisition of Dell EMC's enterprise content division, including Documentum, represent a defining point in the middlegame for enterprise content management (ECM) or the beginning of the endgame? Analysts and competitors have been vocal in their widely varying interpretations.

Devworkz has announced the latest release of Appbuilder for SharePoint & Nintex, which enables anyone to customise SharePoint and easily create applications with no code components. Because Appbuilder removes the need for custom coding and the complexities associated with data integration, even non-programmers can build and manage powerful application solutions.

Lexmark International has released Kofax Kapow 10 for robotic process automation (RPA) projects aimed at automating the labour -intensive processing of digital information.

Semantic Software Asia Pacific Limited (SSAP), an Australian research and development company based in Sydney, has released the first suite of its Semantic Computing Platform, Semantiro, described as a fundamental building block to achieving a complete cognitive environment.

UK tech firm Micro Focus is the new home for HPE’s “non-core” TRIM/RM/CM, software although HPE is retaining 51% of a joint venture company formed in the $US8.8B deal

Australia’s TechnologyOne has increased its footprint in federal government, signing an $A6.2 million deal with the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR).

Analyst firm Technavio forecasts the global search and content analytics market to reach $US6 billion during 2016-2020, according to its latest report, with a growth rate of almost 25% driven by the growing importance of deriving useful information from unstructured data.

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?

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