Enterprise Applications

OneDrive to rule them all?

The last time I felt this dumb was after installing Windows Vista. On this occasion, many years and software iterations later, I was midway through an Office365 migration gone pear-shaped. The same feelings of regret and powerlessness washed over me as the realisation dawned that the Telstra support guy in Bangalore controlling the mouse wandering aimlessly across my monitor had even less of an idea than I did what was going on.

Privacy laws catch Australian firms on the hop

More than three out of five Australian organisations appear to be unprepared for the Privacy Amendment Act (PAA), according to a new study from storage and information management company Iron Mountain. This lack of preparedness may leave organisations vulnerable to new fines and penalties when the changes take effect on March 12. 

Is there life after InfoPath?

With the recent announcement from Microsoft that InfoPath has been scheduled for retirement an anxious debate has broken out about what life is going to be like after InfoPath.

Acting on Knowledge and Information: The Missing Link

Patrick Lambe of Straits Knowledge Singapore has been added to the program of the IIM 2014 National Conference being held from May 1-2 2014 at the Ann Harding Centre, University of Canberra

Big Data will drive US$9.3B MIS spend

With the current explosion of data, the banking industry is keen to use Big Data to boost the effectiveness of analytics within their businesses, according to industry analyst Ovum. New research from the global analyst indicates that while worldwide spending on management information systems in the retail banking industry was US$6.9 billion in 2013, this is set to reach US$9.3 billion by the end of 2018.

Telstra loses Office365 monopoly

Prospective Australian customers for Microsoft’s Office365 cloud suite will have additional choices beyond the Telstra T-Suite from April 2, 2014.

NewsGator transforms to Sitrion

NewsGator Technologies has announced it adopting the name of its October 2013 acquisition Sitrion and will focus on social solutions for Human Resources (HR) self-services and SAP.

Datacom NZ teams up for enterprise search

Datacom New Zealand and Syl Semantics have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver Information Management and Enterprise Search solutions to clients in New Zealand and Australia.

OmniPage SDK delivers capture-ready apps

Nuance Communications has announced OmniPage Capture Software Developer Kit (SDK) 19, for developers wanting to add sophisticated optical character recognition (OCR), imaging, and PDF creation and conversion capabilities to business applications. 

Scan Translation Service goes direct

Fuji Xerox  has announced enhancements to its cloud-based machine translation service for the Asia-Pacific region.

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