Industry Insider

  • Diary of a Thoroughly Modern Knowledge Worker

    Microsoft has come a long way on its mission to enable working from anywhere on a range of devices. For instance, this morning I’m on the train on my way to the office. Later today have a meeting with a customer to go through a proposal for a potential project.

  • SA Health tackles service delivery with Objective

    SA Health has extended its use of Objective across the Department for Health and Ageing, to digitally transform service delivery, responsiveness and information management practices in compliance with the government’s Digital by Default policy. The implementation will be rolled out to the entire Department consisting of approximately 2000 users.

  • Why should records management professionals care about blockchain?

    ​Widely known as the technology underpinning the digital currency bitcoin, blockchain has acquired a new identity in the enterprise. Today, more than 40 top financial institutions and a growing number of companies across industries are experimenting with distributed ledger technology.

  • Bill passed requiring Data Breach notification

    Australian enterprises and federal agencies now have 12 months to prepare to comply with Mandatory Data Breach Notification Laws, following the passage of the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016.

  • SharePoint is dead long live SharePoint

    As Microsoft power forward with new Office 365 applications, administration, governance and compliance tools the question "is SharePoint dead?" has been asked of me on more than one occasion. Some may say it is, I say not.

  • Veritas to showcase Enterprise Data Management in Sydney/Melbourne

    Veritas Technologies has announced that it is bringing together local industry and technology leaders at the Australian leg of the company’s flagship Vision Solution Day conference. Happening across Sydney and Melbourne, Veritas will hold the separate events at Water @ Pier One on February 28 and The Glasshouse on March 2, respectively.

  • Defining a digital strategy for improved information management

    Information is one your firm’s greatest asset, however, according the leading analysts – Gartner, Forrester and IDC – 80 percent of your information is not structured, i.e., it cannot be accessed in a timely manner. This information is buried in paper files, in email folders and shared drives often several folders deep.

  • Gartner predicts era of information as an asset

    By 2021, the prevalence of equity analysts valuing organisations' information portfolios in valuing businesses themselves will spark formal internal information valuation and auditing practices, according to Gartner, Inc.

  • Conference to showcase Geospatial’s transformative role

    Geospatial data’s enabling role in digital transformation will be on show at the International Symposium on Digital Earth & Locate17 in Sydney in April, combining one of the world’s most prestigious symposiums with Australia’s premier geospatial conference.