Enterprise Content Management

Balance Professional Services (BPS) has announced the launch of its BatchPoint tool promising a simple, fast and effective way to import bulk files and their metadata into SharePoint.

A perennial issue facing most content managers is training people to apply the right tags and metadata. Without good tagging content is lost, leading to duplication, ineffective search and a substantial amount of time wasted as people hunt for content they know is in there somewhere. The DataFacet solution from WAND Inc provides sets of extensive taxonomies, and tools to automate the classification of documents and web content.

New Zealand-based, Techtonics, and Australian-headquartered, StoneBridge Systems, have been assigned the annually proscribed OpenText Partner Awards for 2011.

OpenText has announced OpenText Tempo, claimed to be a fast, easy and secure document sharing solution that allows enterprise users to share and manage content in secure folders on smartphones, tablets, and PCs or laptops. OpenText Tempo allows users to access, share and modify content while it is instantly and automatically synchronised across all of their computers and mobile devices. 

Spending on information technology (IT) products and services by enterprises in Australia is expected to reach A$61.9 billion in 2012, up 1.9 percent over 2011, according to a new report from industry analysts Gartner

IT security consultants Pure Hacking are warning  that organisations relying on public cloud computing solutions for the storage and processing of credit card data faced an increasing conflict when achieving PCI compliance.

The NZ government body that administers Maori-owned land is making a move to SharePoint to handle information management.

HiSoftware has launched a content-aware compliance and security solution for SharePoint 2010, HiSoftware Security Sheriff SP. The product was built by HiSoftware’s 8-strong Australian development team in Melbourne, and tackles the challenge of securing sensitive documents that reside inside SharePoint.

To help customers using SAP’s NetWeaver Portal solution, enterprise content management provider OpenText recently announced a new partnership to provide the system with several new applications.

The $3.9 billion ECM market is consolidating with just five vendors competing globally at the enterprise level, according to Gavin Tay, one of the authors of Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for the Enterprise Content Management industry

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