Industry Insider

  • Convoluted policies hindering ethical behaviour: EY Fraud Survey

    More than nine in ten (93%) respondents to the EY Asia-Pacific (APAC) Fraud Survey 2017 want to work for a compliant organisation but are confused by inconsistent compliance policies that lack clarity and are clouded in legal jargon. In fact, 35% of Australian respondents believe their organisation’s current code of conduct has little impact on how employees actually behave. 

  • BCE takes the pain and paper-handling out of payroll processing

    The headaches of handling paper forms and records can quickly add up when managing payroll for an organisation with more than 11,500 employees. A successful backscanning and digitisation project at Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) has removed a lot of the pain from payroll administration.

  • The Whys and Wherefores of Knowledge Management

    Over a lengthy career, I have found Knowledge Management (KM) referred to by many different names before settling into the current usage. One thing that has remained constant is that the most important ingredient has always been the willingness to share information.

  • Digital Transformation from within

    There’s a lot of talk about ‘Digital Transformation’ and (if the number of articles on Medium and LinkedIn are anything to go by) a lot of views on what it actually means. Having spent five years as part of the digital transformation of Australia’s biggest telco, and more recently working on the Federal Government’s digital agenda, this is what I think when I hear the term.

  • New Senate count solution in 12 weeks

    Changes to Senate voting at the 2016 Australian federal election substantially increased the complexity of the Senate count. Faced with a tight deadline before the double dissolution election on 2 July 2016, the AEC in partnership with Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions was able to develop a new end-to-end solution involved scanning and image recognition technology in less than 12 weeks

  • HPE lays out TRIM’s future as a Content Services hub

    Micro Focus Content Manager, as the former TRIM records management product will shortly be known, does not represent the entire future of information management, but will act as the hub of future content services delivered by the ‘spun-merged’ HP Enterprise Software division, according to a roadmap laid out at the 2017 Information Governance Forum.

  • Yellowfin swims on rising tide of data

    Does Business Intelligence (BI) have a future outside of traditional transactional reporting? And just how much is artificial intelligence (AI) going to change the way BI is typically deployed? To learn more about the future of BI, IDM spoke with Glen Rabie, CEO and founder of Yellowfin, an Australian Business Intelligence (BI) vendor with a global footprint, currently boasting more than 2 million users in more than 70 countries.

  • iCognition to move UNSW to TRIM-as-a-Service cloud

    Information Management and Governance specialist, iCognition, has won a large three-year contract to transition the University of NSW HPE TRIM Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to the cloud and expand its usage, initially to 3,200 users but with the capability for 10,000 users.

  • One in Two Organisations Have Had a SharePoint Data Breach: Report

    The Ponemon Institute and Metalogix have released results of a report focused on how organizations are keeping sensitive or confidential data safe in collaboration and file sharing environments such as SharePoint, Dropbox, and file sync and share applications. The findings are based on a survey with responses from 1,403 respondents from the United States , United Kingdom , and Germany .

  • Innovative Information Management by design

    Electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS) have been implemented over the last 20+ years as “a” means to manage information. Many of these products evolved from systems that were used to manage paper records, and they may be integrated with other business systems if sufficient funding and executive sponsorship exists.