Industry Insider

  • ECM innovators recognised at Collaborate 2016

    Victoria’s Wyndham City Council has taken out the first of four inaugural customer Innovation Awards presented by ECM solutions provider Objective at its at its annual Collaborate 2016 user conference, held in Sydney this week.

  • Study shows major losses from poor document management

    Imaging software developer Accusoft has released a data study uncovering standard workplace practices around document management. The report addresses common document management policies and offers solutions to create a more efficient, secure workflow.

  • Reengineering TRIM for NSW Government Dept.

    The machinery of government does not always run smoothly, particularly in the wake of the inevitable mergers and demergers of departments or agencies that take place after elections or ministerial reshuffles. This was definitely the case for one large NSW state government department, which faced a major challenge in 2016 to align two separate and unsupported deployments of TRIM for over 1800 users, while also preparing for a scheduled demerger of one of its agencies.

  • Data Mobility -Then and Now

    Our industry has seen repeated cycles of centralisation and decentralisation: Mainframe or Open Systems? On-premises, or off-premises: Build a DR site, or use Sungard? Which has been better? That’s the past. What I can say is that today, IT leaders see a great number of new choices in how to deploy their business content in the form of cloud connectors for legacy applications, and DevOps that makes use of any number of cloud stacks.

  • Data science tackles a billion dollar healthcare problem

    A leading provider of healthcare analytics and technology-enabled services, Intermedix, has developed a solution to address no-show patients using Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS), its predictive analytics and data science platform.  The problem of patients missing scheduled appointments costs the healthcare industry billions of dollars of lost revenue each year. 

  • The risks of accepting electronic signatures

    A decision of the NSW Court of Appeal sets a potentially dangerous precedent in the context of the effective use of electronic signatures to facilitate transactions, according to a review by HopgoodGanim Partner Paul Cullen, head of the law firm’s Banking and Finance practice