My customers trust Associated Asset Management (AAM) with the creation, management, disposition and seamless access to their documents and official records. We take this role of the custodian of their documents very seriously as mismanaging them can lead to legal exposure for our clients. When it came time for AAM to replace our document management system, I became very interested in what makes Document Management implementations fail and what can be done to prevent it. Having successfully navigated our implementation, I wanted to share some of my findings.
Queensland based Scanning Specialist Avantix has been awarded a digitisation project of an Historically Significant collection of documents for State Library New South Wales (SLNSW).
A mass of corporate data is moving into the cloud. Much of it is there under Software-as-a-Service solution contracts. This data being essential for daily business, SaaS contracts handsomely cover service outages and access to service. Yet data ownership under these contracts is another matter. What can companies do to avoid losing it amid the convoluted interplay of SaaS vendors, software originators and owners, cloud operators, third parties, and even jurisdictions?
CIOs in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) place a higher priority on customer focus and digitalisation than their global peers, with more investing in digital initiatives and fewer in core systems such as ERP, according to Gartner, Inc.’s annual CIO survey. The survey data shows that ANZ CIOs are intensifying their efforts to strengthen digital leadership, organisation and technology capabilities this year.
Corporate data governance programs are difficult to establish and enforce. For the most part, these programs lack the necessary people, processes and technology to effectively fend off security threats, data breaches, regulatory fines and lawsuits. The two weakest links in a company's data governance program are uncontrolled user access to data (53 percent) and managing where data is stored (43 percent), according to the "Data Governance Inside the Enterprise" research study released by Blancco Technology Group.
The University of Melbourne is to join forces with Learning Machine, a US-based company associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, to pilot a blockchain based micro-credentialing system. It will enable employers to verify those credentials quickly.
A couple of weeks back, I was interacting with few operations executives from health insurance, auto insurance and specialty insurance companies. It was a nice cozy evening and the discussion topic was the new buzzword in town “Robotic Process Automation” aka RPA. People have different names to it also – Intelligent Automation, Bot Automation and probably few less known ones.
Australian technology company, MessageXchange has announced the successful demonstration of end-to-end transaction between the Australian Government and a private sector recipient using a new Australian e-invoicing standard.
The quest by printer giant Lexmark to build an empire in the unstructured data world has officially ended, with the news it is offloading the impressive portfolio of capture and ECM software firms it had acquired since 2010.
