Enterprise Content Management

Recommind has released the findings of independent research into policies adopted for information governance (IG) in the United States and United Kingdom. The surveys were designed to discover what companies currently have in place to govern their growing data reserves and determine if these practices are effective at mitigating risk and compliance issues.

New Zealand IP law firm AJ Park has adopted DocsCorp's contentCrawler to provide an automated solution to convert legacy and newly-profiled PDF documents in its Autonomy iManage DMS to searchable PDFs.

OpenText has unveiled Extended ECM for Oracle E-Business Suite designed to allow businesses to bring Oracle ERP content and processes together with Enterprise Content Management (ECM). 

Thousands of products, tens of  thousands of images, 3D, 2D and print assets  and a need to keep everything synchronised between marketing, manufacturing and a  central ERP platform. Sounds like a perfect storm for a digital asset management (DAM) solution, which was exactly the situation facing Australian industrial manufacturer B&R Enclosures.

Despite SharePoint’s astounding success for almost a decade (largely attributable to its integration with Office and its attractive licensing options), Microsoft has always presented inconsistent messages about how to “correctly” use the platform. This extends to SharePoint’s positioning and marketing of each successive version.

Geoscience Australia has spent over 12 years implementing EDRMS and has come a long way since installing its first version of TRIM in 2001. As Australia's national agency for geoscience research and geospatial information, Geoscience Australia plays a key role in assisting mining and oil & gas exploration in Australia and improving Australia's ability to deal with natural disasters. Some of the Agency’s recent activity includes developing flood maps to analyse how to prevent future disasters such as the Brisbane Floods of 2012, and analysing the devastating impact of Cyclone Yasi.

The Department of State Development, Business and Innovation (DSDBI) in Victoria has adopted  HP IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) to provide a single point of access to internal and external information sources.

Colligo's Briefcase 3.6 update adds the ability for mobile workers to annotate PDFs and edit Microsoft Office documents on their devices while offline, and then sync changes back to SharePoint.

MetaVis Technologies has announced new SharePoint administration and analytic capabilities for Office 365.

The majority of large organisations pay significant attention to their content, but are looking at additional channels for publication given the meteoric rise in use of smart devices, tablets and e-book readers. Organisations are increasingly seeking to move print publications into digital formats to improve distribution effectiveness and reduce costs.

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