Enterprise Content Management

Cybersecurity company McAfee has a new report, Do You Know Where Your Data Is? Beyond GDPR: data residency insights from around the world, which highlights businesses’ approach to data residency, management, and protection in light of global events, policies and the changing regulatory data protection landscape.

Most of us are guilty of “data hoarding”. Without a thought, we save every digital photo, email, document, presentation and spreadsheet, losing track of what we have saved along the way. Across the enterprise, employees are blindly building a bottomless lake of data, and, in many cases, a corporate mantra of “save everything, just in case” is encouraging the behaviour.

The first preview editions of SharePoint 2019 and Office 2019 are due out mid-2018, with both new editions of the venerable Microsoft products remaining available in on-premise server and desktop software editions.

As technologies evolve, we have seen the rise of auto-tagging, auto-classification, and auto-categorisation tools that attempt to take over the task for describing the content we create. These tools apply metadata tags automatically so we don’t have to.

Ez-XBRL Solutions, Inc. has been issued a third patent by the US Patent Office. This is an additional patent awarded to the company’s earlier patent for a system that facilitates associating structured content in a structured document with unstructured content in an unstructured document.

Veritas has announced enhancements to the company’s flagship offering, Veritas Information Map, with new data connectors for 23 new data sources for both on-premises and cloud-based data storage repositories.

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) is creating a new Chief Data Office as part of plans to evolve the way the regulator will capture, share and use data in the period leading up to 2020.

IT services company Oxygen, a subsidiary of DXC Technology, has been appointed exclusive reseller of DATUM's Information Value Management data governance platform to the enterprise market in Australia and New Zealand .

Digital transformation is one of those catch-all concepts that you find turning up in all kinds of discussions these days. It’s not a strategy and it’s not a plan, although it’s often confused with both.

Organisations today are faced with exponential amounts of data entering the business in many different formats, from a wide range of sources. Most is categorised as unstructured data: email, video, audio, web chat, social media messages. While dealing with business data can seem like a burden, it is actually invaluable for mitigating risks within your organisation.

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