Enterprise Content Management

While a lot of speculation remains around Dell's proposed $US60 billion-plus acquisition of EMC, which could close any time in the next few months, the company’s Enterprise Content Division is bringing its key executives to Sydney on June 9 for a full day seminar on the future landscape of content management in the digital era.

The Citadel Group Limited (CGL), a $200 million listed Australian solution provider to Governments and the private sector, has acquired Kapish for $A17.5 million. Kapish is one of only two Australian Gold Business Partners for the HPE Content Manager (ex TRIM/RM) suite of document and records management solutions (the other is Optus).

Australian technology company Nuix has released Sensitive Data Finder 2.2, an upgrade that adds visualisations and other analysis features to streamline common tasks and identify high-risk information sooner.

Experts have been nagging information and records managers for years that preparing for electronic discovery in the ordinary course of business is critical. The links between the two disciplines has been underlined with the announcement that Open Text has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Recommind, a leading provider of ediscovery, and information analytics.

The National Archives of Australia’s Digital Continuity 2020 Policy is a cornerstone mandate that underpins the Australian Government’s wider digital transformation initiatives, as well as driving the adoption of e-Government.

Startups are addictive. When you set a milestone and then meet it, it's like a rush of adrenaline. I'm on my third startup, a company focused on enterprise-class content indexing, and I still remember clearly the excitement I felt years ago when we first started receiving an influx of calls from law firms after announcing our ability to directly index backup tapes.

FileBound Australia, a provider of document and work management software and services, has signed a distribution agreement with RatchetSoft, developer of Ratchet-X, a powerful desktop application integration tool.

Bamboo Solutions, a provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, has released 11 products for SharePoint 2016.

ABBYY, the provider of recognition, data capture and language-based text analytics technologies, has joined the Laserfiche Professional Developer Partnership (PDP) program. Laserfiche will integrate ABBYY’s FlexiCapture recognition and data capture software with its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products.

A survey of senior IT executives at 481 organizations in the US and UK on topics related to information governance has found that while almost all have a formal information governance program currently in place or are in the planning stages, only 40% of organizations are “high performers”.

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