Enterprise Content Management

Many organisations are keen to experience the well documented features and benefits of SharePoint 2013. The question in most cases isn't whether to stay with SharePoint, instead the challenge is to implement a foolproof SharePoint migration and upgrade roadmap, and this is where a Search-first strategy can help.

Australian solutions provider Kapish has announced a new product to assist HP TRIM/HP Records Manager users with business processes, called AutoMate. Kapish AutoMate is a central processor that works in conjunction with its modules to carry out specific HP TRIM/HP Records Manager tasks and actions in the background.

An inquiry into practises of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Parliamentary Services has learned that inadequate documentary evidence was provided due to poor management of the TRIM recordkeeping system. The committee of inquiry was inquiring into the process surrounding the choice of a photographer by former Department of Parliamentary Services secretary Carol Mills to document the Australian Parliament's 25th anniversary.

A new contender has emerged in the enterprise File Sync and Share market, the Commvault Edge Drive, available as a standalone solution or in tandem with the company’s Endpoint Data Protection suite.

Nuix  has launched Nuix Incident Response, a new investigative tool to analyse the cause and scope of data breaches. It harnesses the Nuix Engine’s abilities to ingest data natively from hundreds of file types and data formats, adding built-in intelligence to guide incident responders toward the key evidence of internal or external breaches.

Index Engines has announced its new Catalyst Express, a no-cost software that provides full content and metadata indexing of up to 5TB of storage containing unstructured user data.

Stewart MacLeod, Manager, Knowledge and Development at State Trustees, believes KM must work hand in hand with culture and competency strategies, to ensure that employees share and support one another.

The humble fileshare has been one of the biggest barriers to knowledge management, according to Peter Laws, General Manager of Business Information Systems at Mind Australia. The organisation is tackling the issue with the implementation of Knowledgeone RecFind 6 an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to manage a range of corporate files including contracts, personnel files and email correspondence, and improve the organisation’s access to stored information.

The end of the era of “monolithic” Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions is upon us, according to EMC, which is replacing Documentum with a set of cloud-based modular apps that can be consumed at will. EMC expects to launch the first four it has in development by the end of 2015, under its Project Horizon program.

Data Migration is a topic that gets raised time and time again in our industry, and people continue to struggle in getting it right. At some point you will likely be faced with the challenge of migrating data into your EDRMS.

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