Enterprise Content Management

Metalogix has announced ControlPoint 7.0 offers new, embedded security intelligence to deliver real-time situational awareness into suspicious SharePoint user activity to help prevent costly data breaches and leakages. 

dtSearch Corp., a supplier of general enterprise and developer text retrieval software, has announced a new .NET solution for running the dtSearch Engine fully online in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The solution uses RemoteApps for secure data access of nearly any data type from nearly any computer or device.

The bouncer who released footage from a Queenstown, New Zealand bar featuring English rugby player Mike Tindall, has had his conviction under the Crimes Act upheld by the Supreme Court. The court's decision is based on its finding that the digital file Mr Dixon removed from the bar constitutes property under the Crimes Act.

BIG DATA has been a public topic for quite some time now. However, data integrity and transparency are rarely touched. If your organisation runs an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) application, or your organisation is involved in the manufacture, integration, customization and services of ECM products and solutions, you should be aware of potential data integrity and data transparency issues that are revealed in this article.

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing Ram Kumar from IAG (Director of Enterprise Information Management) regarding Data Governance and its impact. As an Analytics and BI recruitment consultant I have noticed an increase in organisations who are realising the impact of data governance. However, there is also a lot of confusion as to what data governance actually entails from both organisations and specialists. With this in mind I thought I would find out from someone with far more experience than me.

Viewpointe has announced enhancements to OnPointe, its private cloud-based information governance platform. The latest platform enhancements further address the growing breadth of content sources and content types that organisations must consider when creating, implementing and executing their information governance (IG) strategies.

In this article, Kapish Consultant Jon Grundy explores HP’s latest solution to regaining control of the growing records governance and compliance issues associated with snowballing SharePoint content in the enterprise. Jon Grundy is a highly experienced TRIM consultant with a diverse range of industry experience including nine years of HP TRIM/HP RM administration and support. Jon worked with both TOWER Software and HP before joining Kapish in December 2013.

I might be a little old fashioned, but I came up through an Electronic Content Management (ECM) and Transaction Content Management (TCM) community where you never put BLOBs directly in your database. By BLOBs, I am referring to Binary Large Objects (not the 1988 thriller movie) which are chunks of images or other large data stored as a single object. I was taught that the database should hold pointers to BLOB content stored on another inexpensive storage system like SAN or NAS drives. However, when I entered the world of SharePoint, I realised that everyone was storing BLOBs in their databases.

Acaveo, a provider of File Analysis software for analysing and managing unstructured data, has been awarded a Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) contract to deploy its software at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Macedon Ranges Shire Council is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 1,747 square kilometres and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 41,860.  It is home to distinctive mountain range of the same name, and the iconic Hanging Rock.  The region is popular with both domestic and international visitors, due to its natural attractions, wineries, and its proximity and accessibility to the Melbourne metropolitan area.

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