A free publication has been launched by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and Canon aiming to help information professionals and business executives focus on the five key areas that can help them teach employees about the importance of information governance and align their organisation to support its IG initiatives.
Records Management is never as easy to sell as it probably should be. The staff at Edith Cowan University (ECU) engaged the services of Information Proficiency to centralise management of policy documents, demonstrating the benefits of a centralised repository.
When you think of machine-authored content, do you envision a room full of Arnold Schwarzenegger “authornators” sitting in front of computer screens? According to Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, “By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines.”
Accenture has acquired Search Technologies, a US technology services firm specialising in the design, implementation and management of big data and search analytics. Search Technologies joins the existing community of data scientists and engineers within Accenture Analytics and will focus on developing and industrializing solutions that make unstructured content – from social media to video to voice and audio – easily searchable to support data discovery, analytics and large-scale reporting.
The Real Estate Institute of New South Wales (REINSW), the peak body for the real estate profession in NSW, is enhancing its interactions with NSW real estate agents by offering the ability to digitise customer engagements and agreements.
The State Transit Authority of NSW has successfully converted its paper and digital records from an old copy of RecFind 5 to the new generation RecFind 6 product from Knowledgeone Corporation.
A review of data retention obligations in the Asia Pacific region prepared by leading technology law firm, Fieldfisher LLP has identified six key compliance challenges that enterprises and government agencies need to address.
DocsCorp has released the results of its first-ever global Hidden Data Survey, asking the question: Could ECM and DMS Technology Be Better? Polling people across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions, the goal of the survey was to determine if users were aware that non-searchable image-based documents were stored in their file management systems and whether they had effective technologies in place to find these documents.
Government record-keeping is making progress in the land of the long white cloud, but the NZ Chief Archivist is pushing for the mandatory adoption of a new information and records management standard it has developed to improve the poor record-keeping within many public offices.
Just as it’s well-nigh impossible to bake a nice cake without cracking a few eggs, introducing “meaningful change” into any large organisation will no doubt require the ruffling of a few feathers, as change of itself necessitates doing things differently. When Melbourne’s Knox City Council took a long hard look at the way it was, or in this case was not, managing retention and disposal of corporate records, the conclusion was that a complete overhaul of its information management practices was warranted.
