Enterprise Content Management
Implementing an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) at the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) appeared on the surface to be a typical and unremarkable task. However the project actually differed in the unique opportunities it presented, the engagement of the users and the commitment of information management staff to boldly work in uncharted territory.
A new cloud-based knowledge management software product called KXDocs has been launched as a joint venture between two companies, Ventures Nirvana of UK and Calance Corporation, US.
ABBYY has announced three software development kits (SDKs) designed for applications that retrieve business-relevant knowledge from unstructured information and turn big data into manageable corporate asset. All products are based on the company’s technology for natural language processing, which is claimed to understand the meaning of processed text with almost human precision.
Sensitive Data Finder is a new product from Nuix that looks at a market broader than ediscovery by helping organisations identify high-risk and high-value information wherever it is stored. It is promoted as a way to comply with privacy laws and regulatory requirements, and defend vital information against cybersecurity breaches and inadvertent loss.
Acaveo has announced the release of Smart Information Server version 3.2, an update to its File Analysis technology for management of unstructured data and access rights. Acaveo says the new release includes additional features for enhanced insight and manageability of unstructured data in file shares, SharePoint, email and cloud repositories.
Many companies choose to move to a new backup platform that provides better functionality, support or simply superior integration within their storage environment. Others have inherited non-production backup environments through a merger or acquisition. Either way many companies must maintain a legacy backup software instance in order to continue to access aged content on tape for legal or compliance purposes.
A SaaS-based discovery platform designed to enable subject matter experts in any industry to gain rapid insight into the growing collections of unstructured content they must analyse has been announced by Content Analyst Company (US), developer of the CAAT machine learning text analytics engine.
Automated handling of all contract-related tasks is promised by OpenText with its new OpenText Contract Center solution, extending through initial concept to the authoring, negotiation, execution, renewal and retention of contracts.
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.
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