Enterprise Content Management

The National Capital Authority (NCA), the body initially formed in 1913 to direct the design and development of Canberra as Australia’s capital, has migrated to a HPE Content Manager EDRMS-as-a-Service cloud.

When you think of machine-authored content, do you envision a room full of Arnold Schwarzenegger “authornators” sitting in front of computer screens? According to Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, “By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines.”

Accenture has acquired Search Technologies, a US technology services firm specialising in the design, implementation and management of big data and search analytics.
Search Technologies joins the existing community of data scientists and engineers within Accenture Analytics and will focus on developing and industrializing solutions that make unstructured content – from social media to video to voice and audio – easily searchable to support data discovery, analytics and large-scale reporting.

The State Transit Authority of NSW has successfully converted its paper and digital records from an old copy of RecFind 5 to the new generation RecFind 6 product from Knowledgeone Corporation.

A review of data retention obligations in the Asia Pacific region prepared by leading technology law firm, Fieldfisher LLP has identified six key compliance challenges that enterprises and government agencies need to address.

DocsCorp has released the results of its first-ever global Hidden Data Survey, asking the question: Could ECM and DMS Technology Be Better? Polling people across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions, the goal of the survey was to determine if users were aware that non-searchable image-based documents were stored in their file management systems and whether they had effective technologies in place to find these documents.

Just as it’s well-nigh impossible to bake a nice cake without cracking a few eggs, introducing “meaningful change” into any large organisation will no doubt require the ruffling of a few feathers, as change of itself necessitates doing things differently. When Melbourne’s Knox City Council took a long hard look at the way it was, or in this case was not, managing retention and disposal of corporate records, the conclusion was that a complete overhaul of its information management practices was warranted.

As organisations consider migrating content to SharePoint or SharePoint online, it is important to understand that there are many technical considerations that can affect the quality and the duration of the migration. This article will identify and address a few key concepts that, if properly understood, can improve any migration to SharePoint or SharePoint Online.

ECM giant OpenText has made a further two enterprise software acquisitions, forensic security and eDiscovery vendor Guidance Software for $US240 million, and Covisint, a Cloud platform for building digital identity management, Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and automotive and transportation supply chain.

Veritas Technologies has released the Integrated Classification Engine, a new technology that enables organisations to quickly scan and tag data to ensure that sensitive or risky information is properly managed and protected.

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