Industry Insider

  • Gartner predicts end of on-premise ECM in 2019

    Software as a service (SaaS) remains the largest segment of the cloud market, with worldwide revenue expected to grow 17.8 percent to reach $US85.1 billion in 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. The Australian figure is predicted to be $A3.3 billion.

  • If it ain't broke, don't fix it: Australia should stay away from electronic voting

    The civic experience of interacting with analogue voting interfaces is as Australian as the democracy sausage. Voters are confronted with tiny pencils, plus physical security measures that involve huddling in a cardboard booth and origami-scale folding. The use of paper ballots – and human counting of those ballots – creates one of the most secure electoral systems imaginable.

  • Getting the good oil on digitisation

    It’s unlikely these days that any medium or large organisation’s business plan would not include the goals of increasing efficiency and timeliness of delivery, as well as reducing risk. If information is the new oil, digitisation is the pump.

  • Newgen Software moves in downunder

    Adding to its subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Singapore, India’s Newgen Software Technologies Limited has now opened an Australian office as part of a concerted push into the A/NZ market. IDM asked the Chairman and Managing Director, Diwakar Nigam, who co-founded the firm in 1992, to outline local plans for the firm’s suite of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Business Process Management (BPM) and Customer Communication Management (CCM) solutions.