Enterprise Applications

ICAC identifies ways to minimise corruption in IT contracts

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has identified five key levers that need to be managed in order for government agencies to minimise the corruption risks involved in managing information technology (IT) contractors.

How not to succeed in setting an information management strategy

This is Technology Tracey.  Today, Tracey has decided she needs a new car.  After driving to the nearest car yard (she is personal friends with one of the salespeople), she buys a nifty two-door coupe with canary yellow paint, leopard print seats, keyless entry and an eight speaker, top of the line stereo.  Tracey drives home feeling very happy.  But then her significant other asks: “How will I drive our three kids to soccer practice?”

Playing it safe in social media

Organisations today use a wide variety of social media platforms both internally and externally, but whether you are chatting with a client on LinkedIn or involved in a discussion with your boss on Yammer, there are some basic techniques to ensure to get the most out of your social experience.

EMC acquires Identification Services firm Aveksa

EMC has acquired privately held Aveksa,  a developer of Identity and Access Management solutions that will be integrated within the RSA security division as part of RSA’s Identity Trust Management product group.

Enterprise search goes Open Source

The Searchdaimon enterprise search product is now available as open source software. The company says it is the only enterprise-grade alternative to Solr available at http://www.searchdaimon.com.

SoftSource resells ServicePoint365 for Office 365 in NZ

New Zealand System integrator Softsource has picked up Cloud|AG’s ServicePoint365 as a new offering to its Office 365 and SharePoint Online clients.

Kofax launches Analytics for Capture

Kofax has launched a new application to provide business intelligence and analytics for users of its Capture and Transformation Modules.

GIS on tap from Amazon cloud

A pay-by-the-month cloud Geographical Information System offering has been launched in Australia by leading GIS vendor ESRI.

Tablet boom continues in ANZ Market: IDC

The ANZ tablet market continued to register phenomenal growth of 147% year-on-year in 2013 Q1 according to research by analyst firm IDC, bringing the total market size up to 1.14 million units. This tremendous growth was contributed by a jump in demand of smaller, cheaper Android tablets, as well as Windows tablets. 

ANZ bank looks to SharePoint future

One of Australia & New Zealand's Big Four banks  is steering a path to a SharePoint 2013 future although keeping its role limited to its perceived strengths in intranet and document collaboration.

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