Enterprise Content Management

In their efforts to identify and protect information assets, companies are not identifying many information "content" risks that fall between gaps of data stewardship and regulatory compliance.

New Zealand information and knowledge management solution provider Information Leadership was awarded ICT Vendor of the Year at the recent Annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Awards. The company was nominated by the Upper Hutt City Council which has recently implemented an electronic document and records management system and intranet SharePoint solution.

With the New Year nearly upon us, it’s no surprise that companies have begun releasing predictions for the technology industry in 2016. Independent technology analyst firm Ovum has joined in with its prediction that says the enterprise content management (ECM) space has entered a new period of rapid evolution. In its 2016 Trends to Watch report on Enterprise Content Management, Ovum outlines the major factors it expects will shape the ECM market in the coming year. These factors include content analytics, the security of content and increased concern over compliance and governance risks.

TechnologyOne has announced the integration of Office 365 with the TechOne Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution at Microsoft’s 2015 Connect Conference in New York.

Australian solutions provider and software developer Kapish has announced a series of new versions of its HP TRIM/RM record-keeping add-ins to align with the recent launch of Records Manager 8.2.

Working across a number of industries over the last few years it always surprised me that Big Data projects either struggle with meeting records management requirements or ignore them altogether.  My surprise comes from the fact that not only is Records Management a compliance practice, but it is one that can literally pay for itself.

Disclaimer: I am a GUI guy by trade.  I’ve worked in user interfaces since I was 6.  Yes, I wrote code in BASIC back in junior high, but it was never “fun”.  I like to just fire the thing up, look at it, tweak it, and run it.  Code has to be remembered, researched, and formatted.  It’s picky.  It doesn’t like to be “just written”.  Brackets have to be flawless.  Case matters.  So many things to think about.

Each platform and vertical industry “hires its own.” SAP teams want SAP people. Healthcare teams want healthcare experts. Salesforce teams look for SalesForce developers. Banks look for financial services people. It's the way of the workplace. SharePoint is no exception. Being a “SharePoint person” conveys membership in a deep-dive community of technical expertise that speaks its own language, from farms and site collections to Designer workflows and PowerShell scripts.

DocsCorp’s contentCrawler, an integrated analysis, processing and reporting framework, now integrates with NetDocuments, a cloud-based document and email management system.

Sean Nathaniel, Chief Technology Officer of Upland Software and General Manager of the company’s FileBound ECM division, wants to foment a revolution in the way organisations plan, manage and execute work.

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