Enterprise Content Management

The iManage leadership team has completed a buyout from Hewlett-Packard (HP) for the purchase of the complete iManage business, including its brand, products and services. iManage co-founder and current General Manager Neil Araujo is the CEO of the management-owned company, now one of the largest independent software companies focused on work product management solutions for professional services firms and their clients. Rafiq Mohammadi, also a co-founder and former CTO of iManage, is returning to the company as Chief Scientist.

HP has announced the availability of two software solutions that help businesses leverage advanced analytics and policy management technology to address the rising information management, governance, and data storage challenges resulting from the growth of big data.HP ControlPoint and HP Storage Optimizer aim to help organisations lower data storage costs, drive stronger compliance and information governance initiatives, and accelerate their path to hybrid cloud environments.

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) has become first Government Department to implement ContentWorX, a new Enterprise Content Management solution from TEAM Asparona.

Data Analytics and Natural Language Processing are emerging as potential lifesavers for modern organisations at risk of drowning in rivers of unstructured data. ABBYY is one of a number of leading enterprise software developers to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the task of transforming the rushing torrent into intelligent and actionable information, via a technology known as Compreno. IDM asked Yury Koryukin, Managing Director of ABBYY Australia, to explain how semantic understanding of natural language can help organisations keep their head above water.

From drone technology to high volume media storage, archiving and distribution, the forthcoming SMPTE Australia Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE15), be held 14-17 July in Sydney will feature a range of solutions from over 130 exhibitors across two halls and outdoor displays.

Information Management and Governance (IMG) specialist iCognition has launched a new product, RM Public View, to allow organisations to publish HP TRIM/HP Records Manager information directly to the public. It has also rebranded its product line of TRIM/RM add-ons, formerly known as Diem Solutions

Having been raised as an identical twin, I’m very familiar with confusion around believing two items are exactly the same when in reality they are just very similar. I’ve seen the terms “Information Governance” and “Data Governance” used interchangeably and would like to clarify what I believe are the major differences.

RAVN Systems, a UK specialist in unstructured data processing, has announced a new product range powered by its Applied Cognitive Engine (RAVN ACE). ACE brings together different technologies from the fields of Information Retrieval, Cognitive Computing and Artificial Intelligence in a solution which can be delivered either on-premise or as a hosted service.

Human error was the number one cause of data security incidents according to a new report released by the Privacy and Data Protection Team at US law firm BakerHostetler. In the incidents that the firm worked on last year, employee negligence was responsible 36% of the time. That was followed by theft by outsiders (22%), theft by insiders (16%), malware (16%) and phishing attacks (14%).

Recent advances in auto-classification technologies have provided a substantial manual labour reduction for several companies related to physical preparation, classification and separation of documents into their operations. Although these advances have achieved tangible results in optimizing document centric workflows, there is still a gap in the aspect of classifying and tracking paper documents.

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