Enterprise Content Management

The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) has implemented a technology refresh using Microsoft SharePoint 2013, CRM Online and Microsoft Azure to serve its membership of all 77 local governments in Queensland.

ECM vendor OnBase by Hyland has added former EMC executive Eugene Chng as its Director of Sales in Asia-Pacific, and according to reports the company has given up the chase to acquire capture specialist ReadSoft.

Is electronic information “property”?  That is, can it be possessed and controlled in the same way that physical objects can be?  If one of your employees or a competitor obtains a database or set of files that resides on your network, does the law of property apply as if they had broken into your premises and made off with the office safe?

Brett Campbell, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Nintex, the leading provider of cloud-based workflow solutions, has been appointed into a strategic advisory role on the board of NZ software startup The Full Suite Ltd (Suite). 

AvePoint has announced the availability of DocAve Governance Automation Service Pack (SP) 5, promising the ability to implement an extensible data governance strategy that empowers users, is easy to maintain, and scales as the organisation grows.

A cloud-based digital recordkeeping deployment has been deployed for the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) by Information Management and Governance (IMG) specialist, iCognition.

Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., has announced a new graphical tool to quickly and inexpensively capture information in unstructured data sources, or what Gartner calls "dark data."

The vast majority of Australian businesses are now using some form of cloud computing and cloud-based email is a common choice for local organisations. Since the start of this year, retailer Woolworths and publishers News Corp and Fairfax have announced plans to switch their on-premises email systems to Google Apps, while Qantas and the Queensland Government said they were shifting to Microsoft’s Office 365.

TopQuadrant, a semantic data integration company, has released version 4.5 of TopBraid Suite, a collection of web-based solutions that simplify the development and management of standards-based, model-driven solutions for enterprise taxonomy and ontology management, metadata and reference  data governance, and data virtualization. 

In my time in this business (enterprise content management, records management, document management, etc.) I have been asked to help with a ‘shared drive problem’ more times than I can remember. This particular issue is analogous with the paperless office problem. Thirty years ago when I started my company I naively thought that both problems would be long gone by now but they are not. I still get requests for purely physical records management solutions and I still get requests to assist customers in sorting out their shared drives problems.

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