Enterprise Content Management

IBM has acquired AlchemyAPI for an undisclosed amount, a platform used by more than 40,000 developers of cognitive computing applications. The acquisition will expand the reach of IBM’s Watson natural language processing solutions.

It seems that barely a day goes by when we don’t see another announcement about Office 365.  New (Australian data centre hosted) offerings to be available by the end of March 2015, the ongoing integration of Yammer, the launch of Delve and the Office graph, Smart Portals, Office extended to all devices and platforms, continual changes to the app development story, single sign on in the cloud using Azure Active Directory, OneDrive for business offering unlimited storage. The list goes on and on.

Attensity has announced its new Semantic Annotation product which is designed to integrate into existing enterprise systems to automatically and intelligently extract highly accurate real-time insights from large volumes of disparate data

International law firm Allens has chosen HighQ Collaborate as its new client extranet platform.

Intergen has won a $NZ12M contract with Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in New Zealand to provide its SharePoint-based cloud Enterprise Content Management (ECM) service ‘Cohesion’.

Coveo has announced the availability of several new and updated Connectors for third-party cloud storage, product lifecycle and social media feeds for its leading Enterprise Search Platform.

Do you remember when taking a photo was more like a game of Russian roulette than trying to capture a simple image. Then even if you did get the picture right you were never quite sure if you took the film out of the camera correctly or that Kodak wouldn’t mess it up when processing.  Fast forward 20 years and the digital image revolution has taken over and now with a selfie stick and a phone everyone is potential celebrity and a whole industry has changed. 

ZL Technologies has announced the availability of version 8.0.1 of its ZL Unified Archive, a  single-platform approach to archiving, eDiscovery, compliance and supervision, records management, and storage requirements designed to add leverage in analytics. ZL says UA's approach to consolidating data resources into an aggregated pool of single data copies provides a revolutionary foundation for application of unstructured analytics within the living business environment. It says while competing solutions create or attempt to integrate disparate "silos" of data, ZL UA takes a unified approach by eliminating siloed architecture and ensuring that only one data copy is stored, retention policies are coordinated, and one consistent search is performed.

The challenge of automating information extraction is at the core of the Sintelix text analytics platform from Semantic Sciences, a CSIRO spinoff established in 2008 by founder Daniel McMichael and now  being utilized by corporate and government customers. in Australia and globally. At the US Department of Defense it is employed in tandem with data analytics technology from tech darling Palantir, best known for its work on behalf of the US government’s intelligence community. Simon Kravis interviewed Daniel to learn more about the commercial uptake of this sophisticated text analytics solution.

How organisations can apply a data-centric approach to eDiscovery, investigation, cybersecurity, privacy and other enterprise information challenges.

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