Enterprise Content Management
Shortly after Lexmark’s $US1 billion acquisition of Kofax, Howard Dratler was appointed head of sales with Lexmark’s Enterprise Software division and placed in charge of the global field organisation. On a recent visit to the region, IDM got the opportunity to quiz Dratler on the progress of merging the operations of Perceptive Software, Kofax and ReadSoft.
If you are in charge of a company or organisation or even a large department, then you will have heard the term “information governance”, and you will have probably asked yourself: “What is it I need to know about this new field?” You will want an answer that is not just theoretical but practically relates the definition of information governance with your organization’s or division’s core tasks and responsibilities.
Recall has launched a new information governance tool to manage physical and electric records, known as CommandIG, and available as a cloud-based or on-premise solution.
My response to the question, “what do you do for a living”? can vary depending on how much patience the person I am talking to appears to have, from ”I work in IT”, ”I build intranets of a sort” to the outright, ”I am a SharePoint Specialist.” I am normally then presented with one of two responses:
TEMIS has announced the launch of Luxid 7.1, a new release of its flagship semantic content enrichment platform and extending its ontology management features. It includes a complete design workflow for Content Recommendation Engines, and integrated workflows that simplify and accelerate end-user tasks.
The problem with searching for a needle in a haystack is that the process, by nature, is inefficient. So why has it become a popular analogy for analytics efforts within the enterprise? Because today’s analytics attempts – particularly for unstructured human data – are typically a mess.
Many businesses are using SharePoint as an excellent platform for managing content, sharing information and connecting with others. What is less widely recognised is the ability of OneDrive for Business, which comes with SharePoint 2013, to improve the way you organise your documents and collaborate with colleagues.
Just four percent of businesses are able to extract the full value from the information they hold, with over a third (36 percent) lacking the tools and skills they need to do so, according to new research from storage and information management company, Iron Mountain and PwC. As a result, 43 percent of the European and North American companies surveyed obtain little tangible benefit from their information, and 23 percent derive no benefit whatsoever.
The Electric Pen has announced the availability of The Electric Pen Reporter to create professional looking reports from your desktop with any TRIM/RM dataset.
An effective information governance strategy depends on many intricate pieces. Like a jigsaw puzzle, if all of those pieces don’t fit together, the whole is not going to show the entire picture. If you have captured, processed and archived some of your business information, but not all of it, there are missing pieces of the information governance puzzle. It is important to understand where your information comes from, how to ensure it is available for analysis, and how you plan to access it in the future.
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